Anybody with a DEF CON 32 badge who has grown bored of the inventory firmware now has the choice to flash a brand new one to show it right into a useful growth device and debugging machine — because of FREE-WILi.
“The DEF CON 32 badge is a tool that has comparable options to the FREE-WILi {hardware},” the corporate explains of its resolution to develop a brand new firmware for the machine. “To advertise FREE-WILi and make the just about 30,000 badges extra helpful we have now launched a model of the FREE-WILi code for it at no cost (use at your personal threat). The I2C help is especially effectively supported, making the DEF CON badge an ideal growth device for DEF CON SAO add-ins.”
When you’ve got a DEF CON 32 badge gathering mud, now’s the time to make it a part of your growth toolkit. (📷: FREE-WILi)
The badge designed for the DEF CON 32 hacker convention shocked company by being the primary public outing for Raspberry Pi’s second-generation in-house RP2350 microcontroller, which has an uncommon quad-core design that permits the consumer to choose any two from paired Arm Cortex-M33 and open supply RISC-V Hazard3 cores working at 150MHz. Whereas disagreements about credit score for its growth took a number of the shine off, it is nonetheless a formidable machine — and might now develop into a part of a toolkit, because of FREE-WILi’s beneficiant supply.
The FREE-WILi is an embedded growth device constructed across the first-generation Raspberry Pi RP2040, utilizing it to ship I2C, SPI, UART, and general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) help over each USB and immediately on-device with its built-in coloration show. Further options embrace an built-in USB hub, an FPGA front-end, non-obligatory sub-gigahertz radios, infrared transmission and reception, and even an built-in speaker and microphone plus on-board real-time clock and accelerometer.
The firmware maps the badge’s controls to the coloured buttons of an actual FREE-WILi machine. (📷: FREE-WILi)
The DEF CON 32 badge would not have all of these, but it surely does come shut — therefore FREE-WILi’s resolution to construct a model of its firmware concentrating on the machine. Badge homeowners flashing the firmware will be capable of use the FREE-WILi consumer interface, transmit infrared indicators, use the I2C bus, and management the badge’s Easy Add-On (SAO) pins plus the 2 user-accessible GPIO pins.
Extra particulars on the firmware, and the right way to obtain and flash it to your DEF CON 32 badge, can be found on the FREE-WILi web site.