BadgeLove!

Awesome badges will be rewarded with fun prizes. This contest will be as inclusive, internationally friendly and blinky as ever!

Joe Grand (www.twitter.com/joegrand), also known as Kingpin, is a computer engineer, hardware hacker, teacher, advisor, runner, daddy, honorary doctor, and proprietor of Grand Idea Studio (www.grandideastudio.com). He was formerly a technological juvenile delinquent, member of legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht), co-host of Discovery Channel's Prototype This and DEFCON's original electronic badge designer from 2006 to 2010.

Whitney Merrill is a privacy and information security attorney and technologist. She founded the Crypto & Privacy Village (CPV), which appears at the DEF CON each year and will make its first appearance at BsidesSF in March 2019. Whitney has been making badges with a team of great folks for the CPV over the past 5 years. She specializes in PCB art and fighting with Inscape and KiCad to translate her mind's eye into hardware. She also organizes and runs the #badgelife slack group and is trying to catalogue and document all the badges made over the past 10+ years

Andrew Sowa (AndrewSowa.com | Twitter @junesphd) is an Electronics Engineer who created a process to turn portraits into PCB art. Starting with the Benchoff Nickel, he has an ongoing series of maker coins that feature prominent members of the community. His work can be seen on various Hackerspace walls and most recently as the SOA for the Open Source Hardware Summit. You can learn more about his process by watching his Kicad tutorial with Alex Glow on Hackster TV.

Moheeb Zara. A long time Hackster friend, Evangelist at @Hologram. Hacks robots and art at @heatsynclabs. Co-founder of @asanspace and @SWMakerFest, great hair, clean code.

Matt Berggren runs the EAGLE & Fusion 360 platform teams at Autodesk. Prior to Autodesk, Matt worked for Supplyframe, the evil overlords that rule Hackaday. He’s been in electronics design and eCAD software since the days of PCAD / Accel EDA and was part of the core team at Altium which drove the transformation from Protel to Altium Designer. Matt’s background in electronics goes back 30+ years beginning with model rocket gear, radios and radio equipment, RC vehicles and a lot more dangerous stuff he’s reluctant to talk about. His career programming began with the Commodore PET. Professionally he’s designed all manner of consumer products, mil-spec / aerospace designs, wireless systems, and just about any sort of sensor / control module you can imagine.

Huge thanks to Master Drew Fustini for making us learn, love and hack badges!