Finally got the Badge working...

I know, you're sick of hearing about the DefCon Badge, most likely. I couldn't get it working on my Parallels Win2K Virtual Machine. I decided to clean up the solder joints a bit to see if that helped. Yes, I usually prefer my butane soldering iron when working on electronics.


That didn't help, unfortunately. I decided to take over my wife's older workstation still running Win2K. Driver detected off the CD (just like it did under Parallels) and so I fired up Hyper Terminal... Success!


Here's what it dumped out:

DEFCON 16 Badge by Joe Grand (Kingpin)

I might be growing up, but I'm never backing down

From corporate greed
And authority
From fighting for what I believe

From my enemies
And my family
From society's pressure of responsibility

From church and state
And blind belief
From those trying to rewrite history

From backstabbing friends
And snake oil fiends
From those in my past with no integrity

You
 can't
      silence
             me.

Goto www.kingpinempire.com

Welcome to the debug terminal...

Entering TRANSMIT mode.
File name: AX0N-NFO.HTM
File size:  0000002239 ytes
Starting IR file transmit.

CRC16 = 0xBB4E

CRC16 = 0xC6C1

CRC16 = 0x598F

CRC16 = 0x14FD

CRC16 = 0xCCE6

CRC16 = 0x0000

IR file transmit successful!
Entering RECEIVE mode.
  * Press Mode Button *
Entering TRANSMIT mode.
File name: AX0N-NFO.HTM
File size:  0000002239 bytes
Starting IR file transmit.
  * Press Mode Button *
Going to SLEEP.
  * Remove SD Card *
  * Press Mode Button *
Entering RECEIVE mode.
 * Press Mode Button *
Entering TRANSMIT mode.
Seending TV-B-Gone power off codes.
Power off code list complete. Repeating!
  * Press Mode Button *
Going to SLEEP.

So you can see it transmitting the file and working as a TV-B-Gone from the serial console, all from the USB connection. Nice!



For anyone who's interested, this is the file my badge transmits.

I'll bring it along to CCCKC tomorrow so we can all play with them, if anyone else brings theirs along.

I am having trouble downloading the freescale software, but I do intend on tinkering with the firmware on the badge as soon as I figure out what I'm doing.