All right. G, you want to start it off? Sure. So, welcome to DEF CON Safe Mode.
So, you know, Badge Life at Blue Team Village this year, a little bit different since we're all
kind of separate, but together we thought we'd make Badge Life reflect the extreme social
distancing that, you know, we're practicing this year. So, the thought was, you know,
you've probably got a pile of masks sitting around. Why don't we do something cool with them?
So, we've been putting together a bunch of different examples of stuff. DeSert's got,
it's been building, you know, kind of Mask Level 1. We have some Mask Level 2 stuff that's pretty
cool that we'll be streaming the builds on later this weekend. You know, then really we just want
people to have fun. You know, if you're into, like, wearable electronics, doing stuff with,
like, NeoPixels and, like, voice modulators, you know, really kind of the sky's the limit.
That was, see what cool stuff people can come up with.
Yeah, I guess, go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna say, I'll be, I'll be showing people on stream
tomorrow how to take this mask and put LED sequins, like these little guys,
and make the entire thing light up. And then Saturday, I will be doing more with the NeoPixels,
like these. And I will actually be affixing it to the inside of this mask, along with a
microphone, and making it voice activated. Nice. I may, I may jump in on some, some build
streaming as well. I was, I wasn't able to build mine due to a, we got hit by the hurricane a bit,
so I've been cleaning out my house. So not, not a lot of time to solder stuff, but I,
I got some time carved out over the weekend. So, so really, you know, going into the weekend,
just things to keep in mind. Anything you do must conform to DEF CON and Blue Team Village
acceptable, you know, conduct policy. Nothing, nothing crazy in there. Stay safe. Don't,
don't do anything that's going to asphyxiate you, electrocute you, or otherwise harm yourself.
Just be careful, especially if you're, you're selling around, you know, lithium batteries. I
think, I think when we were prototyping stuff, we might've had a mishap. Don't, don't burn your
face. Yeah. Yeah. You want to, you want to be careful when you're messing around with the
lithium batteries. I got myself pretty good when I was prototyping. Yep. We, we've been tweeting
out, there, there's a kind of an FAQ that has kind of full contest details. We won't read them
verbatim. We'll send that out again right after this, just so that's more easily accessible.
Really, you know, sky's the limit, you know, you don't have to make your mess from scratch.
You can, you can customize a pre-made one. It's really whatever you want to do with it.
You can incorporate whatever artwork or, you know, iconography that you want to.
And they don't necessarily have to have the electronics either. You know,
they could just do really cool artwork to showcase whatever your creation is.
Yeah. Or, you know, if you want to, you know, if you want to design up in 3d print a,
like kind of a whole, you know, like a whole kind of like crazy helmet or something,
you can do that too. It's, it's non-prescriptive really. At the end of all of it, the, we have
some contest categories that will, again, they're in the, they're in the FAQ. There's a whole bunch
of different ones. And, you know, whenever we go through judging, we'll announce winners on Sunday.
Really the idea is, you know, have fun with it and we'll have some swag for folks who,
you know, so if you're, if you're submitting, there's a, there's a Twitter hashtag that you
can tag us with. It's in the FAQ. That's just hashtag BTVMaskCon.
And I guess just be prepared to, you know, if you want swag, we'll need a mailing address to
send it to. Don't care if it's yours. Don't care if it's your neighbor's. Don't care if it's a
dead drop somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Just give us, you know, a postal address where
you can pick it up. That's all. That's, that's really it. Like I said, Adisa, do you have any,
anything else you wanted to include people in on? Let me check something here. Well,
we could talk probably about some of the, the categories as well, you know, just to give like
a brief overview of what we have. I've actually got the FAQ up, so I can just go ahead and read
those off. We're going to have, right now we have nine categories, possibly might add more.
But right now we have the BTV Organizers Arbitrary Choice. So it's, as a group, we will decide which
one we like the most. That will be a contest winner. We're going to have Community Choice
Individual and Community Choice Family. So what we mean by that is, you know, with us all being
at home, we thought, well, G actually had this idea. He thought it'd be cool if people got their
kids involved. So, you know, get your families involved, build stuff with the kids. You know,
this is pretty easy. It doesn't require a ton of skill. You'll see tomorrow. I am a awful seamstress.
I'm terrible. I'm very bad. And I can make a functional mask. So, you know, it's, it's not
terribly difficult. Get your kids together, show them how to make something fun, and tag us in it.
Let us see it. So the Community Choice will be ones that y'all pick. And then we also have a
Most Cohesive Family Effort. So something that, you know, the whole family gets together, even if
the kids are gluing like macaroni to the mask and painting it all up all cool. We'd like to see it.
So it's the mask equivalent of, you know, wearing your matching t-shirts.
Yes, exactly.
And then we also have the Most Elaborate Incorporation of Electronics. So, you know,
somebody builds like a, somebody comes in like a full helmet, a la Daft Punk,
probably stand a pretty good chance if you built that. We'll have the Most Elaborate Non-Electronic
Wearable Mask, which will also be BTV chosen, which will be very cool. And the Most Elaborate
Incorporation of Theme Work and Artwork. I'm excited for that one, because I love seeing
people's cool art, because I have zero artistic skill myself. Then we also have, subjectively,
the Best Couples Effort and the Best Kids Effort. So, you know, get your kids in there,
let them build their own thing, and they might win some cool swag.
And I think that's all the contest categories we have so far.
Yep. We also have some example masks that you can, if you want to kind of build yourself,
we have some example ones out there that aren't affiliated with any of the makers that have put
those out there, but they're patterns that we know to actually work. So they're a starting point.
We also linked some basic electronics tutorials, if you want to take a spin through those
before he starts streaming the build process tomorrow.
And like I said before, this does require zero skill. I'm terrible at sewing, and I managed to
take this mask and some thread and make a functional light-up mask. So if I can do it,
you can definitely do it. I'm god-awful at this, and I've never even thought of trying to do
something like this before, but we had to adapt to the environment that we were given.
Yep. That's the theme for 2020, really. Cool. I think that's all we got.
Yeah, if you have any questions, I think we have a MaskCon channel in the Discord that you can drop
questions in. We'll try to lurk in there. Feel free to tag either one of us if you have questions
that are kind of more burning. We're trying to pay attention to a bunch of other stuff as well.
Feel free to tag us. We'll drop in and happy to answer any questions or help.
Yeah, I'll be in there all night. I don't have much going on, so I'll be on the Discord most
of the evening. So if you have any questions, just go ahead and tag me. I'll be happy to answer
anything I can. Great. Great. Take care.