The Beeper
This year, the theme was “Remember when the internet was fun?” and since we had already addressed the silly webrings and webpages of the early internet years in the e-ink badge, we thought we’d just hand over an extremely insecure network in the form of pagers :).
Check out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tymkrs/comments/1s806y5/cyphercon_badge_2026_90/
Read MoreThe Bubble Wrap / Cheese Grater Badge
The theme of the year was “Fate or no fate – what can we truly control?” so naturally we thought that a badge based on bubble wrap would be hilarious because who can control themselves around bubble wrap!?
So that led to months of working with China to find switches that had LEDs inside of them that, when pressed, sounded like bubble wrap popping. When found we decided to make a 7×10 field of popping bubbles that also had a number of puzzles to solve, with the end of goal of unlocking a free-draw option.
Check out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tymkrs/comments/1s1seyo/cyphercon_badge_2025/
Read MoreThe Slot Machine
Year 7! This year has passed by so fast that I only just posted the post for our badge for SecretCon (procrastination notwithstanding). The theme was Casino and as you might imagine, immediately slot machines came to mind!
The extent to which our team has had experience gambling is probably building badges lol, though the odds have increased in our favor, and with this badge, even though our first version didn’t work due to parts going MIA, our second version is blingier than ever!
The icon playfield has 24 slot machine icons in the order of value – Lemon – Clover – Diamond – Hack (instead of the normal BAR icon) – Horseshoe – Cherries – CypherCon Gear – Seven
Please visit https://www.reddit.com/r/Tymkrs/comments/1byh4kw/cyphercon_badge_2024_70/
Read MoreSo this badge was 3 years in the making by the tymkrs. We had it originally slated for 2020 but as the world caved in on itself, the con was delayed until last year! The theme of the conference was “The Threat is Real”. And anyone who’s followed us with our badges knows that we jokingly would always say, next year, you’re going to get a flamingo badge. And well, we finally did it :).
Check it out at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tymkrs/comments/129sqlv/cyphercon_badge_2022_cyphercon_50/
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Read MoreTYMKRS's Documentation for the CypherCon Badge 3.0
Basic Badge Operation
On the back side of the badge, near the edge, there are two softkeys.
The button labeled "Click to Power On" turns the badge on. The button labeled "Click to go / Hold to power off" is used to select apps, or turn the badge off.
When first powered on, the badge needs to initialize and will display "NOPRES" as a reminder to not press buttons until initialization is complete. When the badge is initialized and ready for use, the display will show "DONE", and then the default idle message will begin scrolling.
While the badge is in idle, you can start an app by pressing the app select softkey. The display will show "APPSEL", and you can select each of the apps by pressing the touchpad...
Read Moretbased - TBAS Touchpad Editor
Description
TBASED is an editor for TBAS that uses the touchpad for editing.
Operation
When the TBASED app is started, the edit buffer is displayed on the 7 segment display, with the cursor identified by a blinking decimal point. Additionally, the usb serial terminal displays the currently executing TBAS program for reference, along with the edit buffer. Although the serial terminal displays editor information, editing must be done with on the badge via the touchpad and softkey.
Keys
0 and 9 are the cursor keys, moving the cursor through the edit buffer.
1 Inserts a ‘[‘
2 Inserts a ‘]’
3 Inserts a ‘<‘
4 Inserts a ‘>’
5 Inserts a ‘+’
6 Inserts a ‘-‘
7 Inserts a ‘=’
8 Inserts a ‘?’
* Backspace...
