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I spent some time hanging out with @c0ldbru at Shmoocon, where he had a couple of prototypes of a badge he’s working on for his upcoming convention called rotc0n. I can’t resist a #badgelife oddity so I grabbed one!

A new, possibly recurring feature: Badge Reviews! For this first installment I’m going to review @alt_bier’s DC31 Future Badge. There are NO spoilers for the puzzles in this review.

Spoiler Alert This post contains a walkthru for @alt_bier’s Future Badge. If you want to read about the badge itself, head over to my review.

Wow, has it really been more than a year since my last post? I guess the dates don’t lie! Here’s what I’ve been up to…

Last month I got a #badgelife badge at a local hacker convention. In addition to soldering it, it had to be programmed. This is the first badge I’ve encountered that did not have a USB interface, so I had to learn how to program it using a programmer. In case you ever need to do something similar yourself, here’s a way you can do it with a Tigard.