BADGES? We don’t need no stinking badges!
Members of Workshop 88 makerspace have been involved with hacker conventions and badge culture where they would design, program, fabricate and distribute badges at hacker conventions like THOTCON . These devices were made in 2014 for THOTCON 0X4 These badges each utilize an FS1000A RF transmitter and and XY-MK-5V RF receiver (similar to this ) to build two way radio modem, S11145 UV Sensor , and a Funduino Pro Mini Arduino compatible micro-controller. The THOTCON 0x4 badge project including source code, libraries, PCBs, and documentation is here: https://github.com/Workshop88/thotcon0x4 Since these devices served their purpose eleven years ago and haven’t been touched since, it’s safe to assume this inventory of devices can be hacked and reused. Let’s verify we have everything needed to [re]program one of these. The Arduino Pro Mini is a small Arduino compatible board based on the ATmega328P . It does not have a USB connector so an external serial programmer is required. Fortunately there were two in the box with the badges and the bad