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#BADGELIFE

AND!XOR (pronounced AND not X OR)

Based in California with backgrounds in Hardware and Software Engineering. 

The team spans from SoCal to Silicon Valley, through Texas, to DC.

We make stuff. We drink beer. In no particular order

We design and manufacture custom hardware, write embedded software, tailored into wearable electronic pieces of art known colloquially as "badges." In addition to an immersive hacking challenges, all badges leverage the dark arts of RF for collaborative interaction and gaming. These exposed circuit boards showcase blinky LED's, silky smooth color animations, games, and interactive puzzles with ANSI art.

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The team

Press

Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP EP#342: Hackery Experts
09/02/2022
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP EP#341: Project Snackey Recap
08/26/2022
Cyber Distortion Podcast
#Badgelife: Electronic Blinky-Bling?!
06/30/2022
OSH Park
OSH Park Blog
08/06/2021
Hackaday
AND!XOR’S DEF CON 29 ELECTRONIC BADGE IS AN ASSEMBLY PUZZLE
08/02/2021
Ponoko
Creating Surprise And Delight With Electronic Event Badges
01/20/2021
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP EP#238: Better Encryption than Zoom, Firmware Stacks with AND!XOR
08/19/2020
Hacker Warehouse TV
DEF CON 28 SAFE MODE Exclusive AND!XOR Interview
08/08/2020
Hackaday
HANDS-ON: AND!XOR UNOFFICIAL DC28 BADGE EMBRACES THE ACRYLIC STACKUP
08/07/2020
Parallax
Trump’s tariffs just about killed DefCon #badgelife
08/08/2019
Hackaday
HANDS-ON: AND!XOR DEF CON 27 BADGE DITCHES BENDER, ADOPTS LIGHT PIPES
07/29/2019
Hackaday
Introducing The Shitty Add-On V1.69BIS Standard
03/21/2019
Makezine
The Cutting Edge of Engineering Gathers at Hackaday’s Superconference 2018
11/07/2018
Hackaday
SuperConference 2018 : USIN EMBEDDD SISTEM CHALLENGEZ AN PROGRAMMIN LULZ AS METHOD 2 TEACH HACKIN
11/01/2018
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP#144: Espress-ify? Designing Products Around the ESP-32 Platform
10/31/2018
Vice Motherboard
A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
09/18/2018
Hackaday
Badgelife, The Hardware Demoscene Documentary
08/20/2018
Hackaday
Review of the AND!XOR DC26 Indie Badge
07/30/2018
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP: Episode 109: Arduino, The Gateway Drug To #BadgeLife
03/01/2018
HackSpace
Badgelife: The unlikely hacker culture art form
01/01/2018
Hackaday
Hackaday SuperCON - Engineering Badges for more than Fun & Bling
11/11/2017
Facebook
Fasion Tech - XenoGirl upcycles Bender Badge in to Hand Bags
08/14/2017
Coindroids
Coindroids at DEF CON 25
08/08/2017
Github
Wall of Bender
08/06/2017
Hackaday
All The Hardware Badges of DEFCON 25
08/04/2017
Hackaday
How I made the Mr Robot Badge
08/01/2017
BBC Click
The hi-tech badges made for hackers
08/01/2017
Engaget
The exquisite art and subculture of Def Con’s (unofficial) badges
07/31/2017
TWIT
THIS WEEK IN TECH 624 (Time 0:22:50)
07/23/2017
Amp Hour
Podcast #352 – Conning with Michael Ossmann (Time 0:56:00)
07/18/2017
Hackaday
FRIDAY HACK CHAT: BADGELIFE
07/12/2017
Hackaday
HANDS-ON: NEW AND!XOR UNOFFICIAL DEF CON BADGE
07/12/2017
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP: Episode 73: Joe Grand: The Origin Story (Time 0:23:20)
06/23/2017
LayerOne
LayerOne 2017
05/28/2017
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
MEP: Episode 69: Incognito Mode
05/26/2017
CypherCON
CypherCon 2017
03/31/2017
Macrofab Engineering Podcast
Red Hot PCB of the Week – AND!XOR DEFCON 25 Indie Badge
03/20/2017
Hackaday
HANDS-ON THE AND!XOR UNOFFICIAL DEF CON BADGE
07/25/2016
PRESS

AND!XOR DC30 Project

Badge Features
  • Repurposed LilyGo TWatch with a true port of MicroPython

    • New Bootloader, App Framework, Multiple Threads​

    • Display, Wireless, IR, Microphone

  • Watch Faces, TV-B-Gone, Wireless Interrogator

  • Reverse Engineering Compiled Python Challenge

  • Wireless Game, Bling Animations

  • Cloud Based Provisioning & Network Time

Snackey Features
  • Retrofitted Vending Machine made IoT Hackable

  • Custom designed controller board

  • Hack Snackey, they dispense badges at DEF CON 30

  • CTF Challenges for Hacking

    • Lock Picking​, Web Security, OSINT, Crypto, Reversing

    • Hash Cracking, Modulus (Modulation?)

  • Bling (of course we blinged out a vending machine)​

  • 8" Casters (because moving Vending Machines suck)

  • NFT Printer (because NFT's suck)

Links
Sponsors
  • Urbane Security, w00w00, & Philanthropists

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Be in Touch

We want to hear from you!

contact@andnxor.com

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