1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,820 You made this hat and it's incredible. 2 00:00:01,820 --> 00:00:02,820 I want to hear about it. 3 00:00:02,820 --> 00:00:03,140 Hi. 4 00:00:03,140 --> 00:00:06,620 Okay, so my other other hobby is the Burning Man. 5 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:07,640 This is my Playa hat. 6 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:09,500 I just covered it in tinfoil. 7 00:00:09,820 --> 00:00:15,660 But the problem is, so the problem is, it has the ears and the ears are structural. 8 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,200 And when I built it, the ears are kind of locked in position. 9 00:00:19,540 --> 00:00:24,980 So what I accidentally made was a blindfold. 10 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:29,740 And I'm like, well, I can't walk around like this. 11 00:00:31,060 --> 00:00:35,040 But if you turn it around, now the angle is backwards instead of forwards. 12 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,980 And it's also deeply unsettling to watch me walk away with that thing in my back. 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,800 And the more unsettling option is always the better answer. 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:47,100 That is a good point. 15 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:47,280 Yeah . 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,000 That is a good point. 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:48,500 Yeah. 18 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,420 I mean, how did it score? 19 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:51,860 It's an antenna. 20 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:52,780 Oh, good. 21 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:54,640 I am. 22 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:55,480 I am. 23 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,480 I am bringing the waves in. 24 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:58,640 They're hacking my meats. 25 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,460 I'm sorry. 26 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:00,640 Oh, I'm sorry. 27 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,500 They're hacking my meats. 28 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,680 We're at the tinfoil hat contest. 29 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,320 And again, at DEF CON 30, they are showing some pretty awesome things. 30 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:16,320 And it's not what I would expect, because it's not just, hey, make a tinfoil hat. 31 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:17,640 This goes beyond just making a tinfoil hat. 32 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:20,720 We're doing, you know, true science here. 33 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:32,240 So we actually are, the head has a receiver in it, and then there's a control antenna, and then there's transmitters all throughout the room. 34 00:01:32,620 --> 00:01:35,860 One that's ours, and then there's several others. 35 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:43,640 So we essentially are measuring the delta between the two signal receivers. 36 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,860 So the better you block the signal, the better your score. 37 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:57,440 Or, you know, a lot of people are making really good antennas and just reflecting those CIA mind control rays straight into our mannequin's brain. 38 00:01:57,620 --> 00:02:01,580 So I've seen so many different designs. 39 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:04,280 Can you give me tips before I make mine? 40 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,800 What's a good way of doing it? 41 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,140 I mean, to be honest, RF is magic. 42 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:15,740 So you'd have a design that you would think would be good, and it doesn't do good. 43 00:02:15,740 --> 00:02:22,960 Some, you know, they do like this real minimal design and just get it just right, and they score well. 44 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:35,420 So we personally like when you're creative and go all out and have like, you know, one year we had a lady, she made like this giant predator head from Alien. 45 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:43,360 Had people make the James Webb Space Telescope and all sorts of manner of ridiculousness. 46 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:50,540 So it's not always like someone who's doing like way more tinfoil, like where it's a ton of tinfoil, which makes it better signal stopper. 47 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:52,640 Sometimes it's even just the light quick ones. 48 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:53,160 Yeah. 49 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:53,880 Yes. 50 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:02,840 Small ones that it's depends on how well you are at reflecting the RF essentially away from them. 51 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,020 How long has tinfoil hat contest been a thing at Defco? 52 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:08,640 It's been a while. 53 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:16,640 I've lost count because I took it over from one of the psychologists that were running it for a couple of years. 54 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:22,320 And then I ran it for several years and I've always been helping with it. 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,360 And now Lunchbox, she's the one that's primary on it. 56 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:27,040 Okay. 57 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,700 So is your favorite one the predator hat? 58 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:30,720 Or do you remember other ones? 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,260 That one's pretty good. 60 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:45,420 I think my favorite was several years back, this girl and her mother, they spent like the entire con working on this hat. 61 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:46,880 And it was beautiful. 62 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,980 Like they went and got like different colored foil. 63 00:03:50,260 --> 00:03:52,460 And like they had like these things. 64 00:03:52,460 --> 00:03:56,800 It was 100% foil, like no, no fasteners or glue or anything. 65 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:02,580 And you have things coming out with like chandelier stuff going down the side. 66 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:04,060 It looked beautiful. 67 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:07,300 I think that's my favorite hat I've seen. 68 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,940 Well, Crocs, thanks for sharing. 69 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:10,960 Again, always. 70 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,560 This is like one of those contests is just such I love it because it's so approachable. 71 00:04:14,660 --> 00:04:15,380 It's so easy. 72 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:17,080 Anyone can make a hat. 73 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,540 And it's impressive. 74 00:04:18,540 --> 00:04:19,200 I'm looking around. 75 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,480 We'll have to get some B-roll of it. 76 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,460 But it is so much fun. 77 00:04:22,460 --> 00:04:23,360 Thanks, Crocs. 78 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:24,380 Thanks for watching. 79 00:04:24,380 --> 00:04:25,540 And hack on!