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  • Artist, Human and Press badges from Def Con 24. Googly eyes added by writer.

    The incredibly intricate badges of Def Con

    by 
    Roberto Baldwin
    Roberto Baldwin
    08.13.2016

    Three days before the 24th annual Def Con hacker event, badge designer and builder 1o57 (aka Ryan Clarke) had a problem. "The lion's share of the 20,000 badges showed up this year not programmed," he told Engadget. He gathered up a team and they went into "hell mode" to hand-program blinking pieces of electronic riddled with cryptographic puzzles.