I've seen people use IR to re-program Arduino boards before, and I think it would be pretty cool if someone wrote a self-replicating program that could be passed on just by standing in front of another attendee for the length of a normal short conversation. I'm guessing someone could come up with a pretty interesting/artistic use for a botnet of a few hundred Arduino badges in one location.
Good plan - we'll be putting up some framework code on the TiLDA repo at https://github.com/emfcamp/TiLDA, so feel free to submit pull requests before the event.
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I've seen people use IR to re-program Arduino boards before, and I think it would be pretty cool if someone wrote a self-replicating program that could be passed on just by standing in front of another attendee for the length of a normal short conversation. I'm guessing someone could come up with a pretty interesting/artistic use for a botnet of a few hundred Arduino badges in one location.
Good plan - we'll be putting up some framework code on the TiLDA repo at https://github.com/emfcamp/TiLDA, so feel free to submit pull requests before the event.
If they had these badges at DEFCON that would happen for sure. :)
what if someone writes a virus and passes it via IR?
... and at 12:00 noon every ones red light on the badge turns on....
that would be pretty funny.
I guess you could always disable the IR receiver via a pretty quick hardware or software hack once you got your badge if that was a concern.
Quick hardware hack == piece of dark/thick tape.
Reset button. Or you can reprogram it from your laptop...