Designer, Maker, MacGyver - Industrial Design, UX Design, User Research ⚙️ Inventor of the eChallengeCoins, Philanthropist, “Relic”,
https://bradanlane.com
Bradán Lane
What would @defcon.bsky.social be without something to trade? This year I will have an assortment of my coin designs including this hacker-themed coin. And it wouldn't be a good hacker coin if there wasn't an exodus message on the back!😎
To help make the PCB useful for other skills, it has a bunch of extras:
- Onboard USB UPDI / UART
- Rotary Encoder
- Buttons
- RGB LED
- OLED 128x64
- STEMMA I2C
- battery holders (on back)
I went digging and discovered a T6 is a pretty small driver!
A surprise of the "choose your own charity" 2026 eChallengeCoin has been all of the cool youth STEM programs I am discovering from donors!
Today I learned about Tech Journey!
I was told "the difference between a carpenter and a craftsman is how well they hide their mistakes".
In electronics, it's "never let then see you bodge" 🙄
1/ Working on a youth skills exercise. The goal is to design a small PCB which can be used to teach basic use of an oscilloscope. The primary skill is to use the probe points to see different results on the scope.
Optical character recognition built into phon cameras is a wonderful tool. Yesterday I needed to unlock new software by typing in the long messy license key, printed on a card.
I bet phone OCR can also be a tool for mischief. 🤔
Another great organization has been selected by a donor as part of the "choose your own charity" for the 2026 eChallengeCoin!
Working on a video and this is probably the thumbnail ...
There was a time when cell phones had style and personality. Now they are all indistinguishable from each other.
