Matt Mayes on LinkedIn reveals the Aerospace Village badge for DEFCON 32. The badge is an all-in-one ADS-B receiver and display. A position signal is received directly from an aircraft and displayed on the screen.
But this badge doesn’t just display aircraft, it’s also an entire Linux single-board computer with built-in WiFi, GPS, dual-core processor, 128MB DDR3 RAM, and 8GB of eMMC storage. Want to hack it? Go ahead and connect with SSH or plug in a keyboard to the USB port and open up a terminal. It even has a microSD slot.
What else can the badge do?
- Fully integrated ADS-B receiver with onboard PCB antenna and optional external antenna
- GPS with own-ship position on a moving map
- Expose the Dump1090 data to the network over WiFi or USB Ethernet
- Video playback
- Video game emulation
- Expandable storage if you provide your own microSD card
- Replaceable 18650 battery with fast charging via USB-C PD
- Lots of blinky lights and an SAO connector that supports I2C, GPIO, and more
- Anything else you program it to do, it runs Linux after all 🙂
- Oh yeah, there’s some hidden puzzles too. Some might call it a CTF. Rumor has it there’s a $1000 prize if you are the first to solve them all.
Absolutely amazing work by Adam Batori. He is truly an engineering wizard.
But it wasn’t just him. We had quite a team working on this. Robert Pafford, Ruben Munoz, Daniel Allen, P Hurley, Gray Kim, and even me, all had a hand in getting this together.Final board assembly is underway with some amazing artwork by Dan Ropp.
It will be displayed at DEFCON 32 in Las Vegas Aug 9-11. It will be fully open-sourced after DEFCON.