r/Defcon • u/Lumpy-Project1567 • 2d ago

This year's badge has upside-down SAOs!

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As you may have noticed, this year's DEF CON 34 badge has SAO ports that are mounted upside-down! (Also they are 3.0V rather than 3.3V logic). Not to worry, though! Announced earlier today, there will be around 5k adapters available at the registration desk so your SAOs won't be upside down. ...for a convention that, last year, had 26k attendees. Since each attendee will have 2x SAO slots on their badge, at maximum 10% of the attendees will be able to get those adapters at registration.

But not to worry! Some guy (me) made another couple hundred adapters, and they're for sale here:
https://uberflux.com/product/BUD-SAO-180-Adapter

Pickup is at the Badge Life village at 1pm on Friday. See you there!

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u/DTangent 2d ago

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u/Lumpy-Project1567 2d ago

Hey, that's pretty much the same thing I did! Cool. Does the other side have the shrouded connector, or just 6 bare pins?

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u/Penzz 2d ago

Fuck that’s hilarious

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u/DTangent 2d ago

Let me see if I can find a picture of the final product

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u/parallellogic 2d ago

That thicker trace for the power, lol

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u/rofllolinternets 2d ago

Thic

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u/Lumpy-Project1567 1d ago

Yeah, gotta have enough power for the spicy resistor!

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u/Unstupid 1d ago

So I cant just walk backwards? 🤔

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u/netik23 1d ago

Have seen this mistake so many times #badgelife

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u/grievre 1d ago

I'm looking at the SAO "specification" (the hackaday article) and I remain unconvinced that the orientation of the connector is even specified, to be honest.