[Ground-station] Publicity and Plans for DEFCON "In the Village" - You are needed!

[Michelle Thompson]

Greetings all!

It was quite a week that we had, across multiple projects. The usual weekly
summary will be out soon, but there's an item that needs some help in terms
of outreach, publicity, and support.

We need to have a summary of demos and supported projects to DEFCON by
early July in order to get on websites and in finder apps.

Our philosophy is "we bring whatever works and a few things that don't",
but we've been asked for more specificity and for us to provide it a bit
further in advance than we otherwise would (for DEFCON).

Emphasis from DEFCON is for us to highlight things that are replicable, are
open source, and bring the joy of radio hacking to the individual.

So, what are we doing at DEFCON?

1) We are sponsoring Retail Hacking Village. If you go, drop by and say hi
to the crew there. We are very happy to be able to help a village happen.

2) ORI will physically be at RF Village, with technical and social
demonstrations.

What will be at the Volcano Booth? Here's what we have so far, and we are
looking for more. *Your* project might be perfect.

The lineup:

A "Tiny CTF". This may be the world's smallest CTF, as it's one challenge
on an inch square PCB. You have to break in to a webserver over wifi, and
blink LEDs on the board. Small prizes available!

Our transponder will be demonstrated, and we have a lot of work cut out for
us here!

A modified M17 protocol will be demonstrated as a standalone product. We've
converted the narrowband VHF/UHF protocol to microwave HD voice, combined
voice and data modes to where it's easier to use, and added authentication
and authorization. This work is in progress but will be ready. What I'd
like to have is a station that allows pushbutton demos, with lashed-up SDRs
that run the code so folks can talk over the air in GHz with high voice
quality, all on open source hardware.

DEFCON sounded like they really wanted the Wall of Bender back, so we're
working on that. This is a scoreboard of sorts that shows all the local
conference badge traffic. It gives a visual representation of the
#badgelife beacons flying around in the air around you. If you know of a
#badgelife project that would like to show up on the board, please let me
know.

Multimedia 10 GHz beacon. We've demonstrated this one recently and here is
another chance. We are applying with SBMS for an ARRL club grant to fund
productization of this beacon and get more on the air. This is essentially
what appears in the "default digital downlink" for the transponder. Adding
a camera and showing the RF Village stage as a broadcast has been approved.

I believe M17 VHF/UHF plans to have their own demos for the narrowband
mode.

We need help with all of this. Please consider yourself invited and
supported if you decide to gift your time to us to make these things
happen.

First off, please spread the word about what we are doing at DEFCON.

We want to support and promote projects that wouldn't otherwise get a
chance to be in front of the 5000+ people that love the exact sorts of
things that we all do. At least this many folks will visit RF Village.

Finally, if you have a talk that might fit in at RF Village, then please
let me know. There is still space in the speaking track.

-Michelle Thompson
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