
This is a very boring read of each subsystem in Space Force.Īs is usual with my designs, I cost optimized as much as possible, favoring lower parts cost over reduced labor. I am thinking of bringing a bunch to Supercon 2019.should I?ĭesign review (what happened, and mistakes I made) There will be some for sale soon for those who still want one. I think most people who wanted one were able to get one during con. Some people said things like $10, and when I explained that that is less than BoM and what it was for they were generally disinterested. I was asking what people thought the badge and what WP doing what we do was worth, and this was a bit of a mistake. I made this badge to sell to raise funds for WP projects: that is, to buy the tools and parts necessary to keep making badges. Pickup by people actually reserving was very low, less than 10%. To gauge interest, I opened reservations via a Google form on twitter.

Only suffered maybe a dozen lacerations and a couple dozen burns, including one second degree burn. They work fine though and look like the rest. This means everything was done except for the OLED, IR RX/TX, LEDs, jumper wire and battery.Īs I was only one person running between the pick n place, desk, and oven, some boards were. These included: the first 40 or so DW01 and FS8205A, the first 40 or so TP4056, all OLEDs, all accelerometers (my machine hates the tape), all USB (reel too big), EN and IO0 buttons (had to be modified), on/off switch, ESP32 module, IR TX/RX, and battery holder.Īt peak I was getting 7-8 badges done per hour to the 60% done mark. Many parts had to be hand placed or soldered. The machine still cries at me sometimes but it's not so bad now. By the time I began placing Space Force, I had most of the quirks worked out. This fighting happened with the GAT Nametag and Internet of Batteries projects. I took the best boards and used them to fabricate Space Force.īy the time I got good boards I had already spent a shitload of time fighting with my pick and place. Sadly, the second run was worse quality than the first. =( (fun fact: there are 7 blue badges out there that are reworked versions of this PCB) Turns out I did not actually fix one of the mistakes and was blowing up the battery protection circuit. but Space Force still had a fault in the design. There were several things fixed on all designs I sent out that day. =)Īfter getting the design done, while sleep deprived and working on 3 unrelated PCB projects, I sent out the order. The rest is what you made of it at DEF CON 27. I thought that we needed to take it a step further, and so created Space Force One, the Elite American Space Ship (slash paper airplane).

Object throwing (mostly at BK) and SPACE FORCE persisted for some long amount of time. At some point, someone threw something and yelled SPACE FORCE so that was a thing now. you know, where you say and do dumb things. Thank you, San Antonio, for always embodying the PAX spirit by welcoming home gamers and the people who make the things we love.OK, the story goes: at DEF CON 26, a bunch of people in the Whiskey Pirates room were talking while at that stage of weird stage tired. We learned a great deal from you, and future shows will be better for it. You will forever be part of our family and the legacy of PAX.

We’re sorry to all our friends who were looking forward to the show's return in 2022 - we join them in that - but we hope to see you again at our other events as PAX returns. The heart of PAX South lives on in the incredible memories we made in our Texas community and with the international fans and Enforcers who came out to support the show. While each of our other events have flourished, some of them drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees from around the world, PAX South hasn't expanded and to some extent has remained the same show that it was when we opened it in 2015.įaced with that reality, and compounded by the impact of COVID-19, we have made the difficult decision to bring PAX South to an end for the foreseeable future.
#OVERCOOKED! 2 BADGE SERIES#
Never in our wildest dreams did we anticipate more than 3,000 passionate fans to arrive, or for our one-time event to turn into a series held in five cities around the world. When the first PAX was held in 2004, we expected at most a hundred locals to show up.
