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For those attending, are you planning to participate in Hebocon? You should, it’s great! Hebocon is a Robotic Battle for those on an extreme budget. Originating in Japan, it pits poorly constructed robots, modified electric toys and last-minute creations against one another in a Sumo-style arena. Hebocon starts at 11:00 on Sunday in the Hardware Hacking Village! Sign up on-site in the Hardware Hacking Village with your bot to participate!

How do I play?

Build a robot. A really terrible robot. You can either build your robot and bring it to the conference, or build it on-site in our renowned Hardware Hacking Village. There should be plenty of electronics rework equipment in the HHV, but feel free to bring some extras to guarantee that you have tools to work with or share with others. See below for full contest rules and restrictions for robot construction and operation.

How can I help others?

You can help by bringing building materials & spare electonics to share with others working on a bot. Very useful parts include: DC Motors (under 12v), batteries and battery holders, wires, super glue, hot glue guns, and etc. Remember – parts don’t need to be brand new. Crappy, sometimes unpredictable robots is kinda the point : ) Got a bin of parts sitting around your house, workshop, or hackerspace? Bring it and put it to good use: dying in glorious combat like all electronics are destined to do.

Contest Rules

• Arena is 50cm x 100cm
• Robots must fit within their half of arena (50cm x 50cm) at start of match
• Matches are 1 minute in length
• Tournament is a swiss-style competition to guarantee maximum playtime for all competitors!
• Competition is Sumo-bot style, therefore the goal is for your robot to be moving in the arena while your opponent is not.
  • There are some restrictions on robots in size, weight, and technological candor.
  • Technological restrictions to be determined by judges on case by case basis during sign in for any “technology” used as method of robots performance in match. Robots should be as simple as possible, staying away from direct radio control or on board hardware that could be interpreted as “technologically advanced”
  • Don’t bring your 60lb pet rock

  Hope to see you later this month!

  Sincerely,
  The LayerOne Staff

Do you have extensive knowledge of defeats for tamper-evident devices? Or maybe you’ve heard about the tamper contests and would like to try your hand at it? We have just the challenge for you: King of the Seal! Come one, come all – play against your friends!

Here’s how it works:

1. To enter, you must open and close (unseal/reseal) a tamper evident device without visible, tactile, or olfactory evidence that you did so.
2. Turn in your entry to the friendly Tamper Village staff. We will rate your attempt.
3. If you’re better than the current best for that category, your entry will become the new king of the hill! The tampered seal will be placed atop a pedestal and displayed for all to see.
4. Until someone comes and does a better job, you hack. Try again. Do better!

Additional Rules:
* Max team size: 1
* Tamper Evident Staff evaluations are swift and brutal.

There will be multiple seals available for your purview including mechanical and adhesive seals. Old favorites and new challenges will be present for you to play with. The LayerOne Tamper-Evident Contest runs from 10:00 Saturday to 14:00 Sunday!

Haven’t booked yet? Head over to the registration page to get your tickets now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

You have until May 1st to get a discount on LayerOne 2024 registration! Head over to the registration page to get your Early Bird tickets now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

The LayerOne Demo Party is back again for another year of awesome demos! Demos are a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware.

2024 Demo Party Categories

• LayerOne Demo Board: Create a fantastic audio/video experience using a LayerOne Demo Board!
• ANSI: Create an awesome 80×23 ANSI art image using the standard 16 colors! (Please use this template!)
• Wildcard: Anything goes! Props given for creative use of hardware or software!

Enter your Demo or ANSI art now! Submit by emailing datagram@layerone.org with [DEMO 2024] in your email title! Please include your .hex file for Demo Boards and you .ans file for ANSI!

You have until May 1st to get a discount on LayerOne 2024 registration! Head over to the registration page to get your Early Bird tickets now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

LayerOne is proud to announce the 2024 speaker lineup! We hope you enjoy this year’s diverse set of talks focusing on a variety of technical topics and cyber security disciplines! As always, LayerOne hosts a single track speaking schedule to ensure that you’re able to see all the talks you want to without long lines or having to choose between two great talks.

Alex Useche – Pragmatic Program Analysis – Demystifying Static Analysis for Security Research
Angelina Tsuboi (G4LXY) – Reverse Engineering Satellite Communications
Bronwen Aker (Corvus) – LLM Prompt Engineering: A Toolkit for Hackers and Other Geeks
cesi0 – My Pal Rubeus
Daryll Strauss – Kubernetes Security — What not to do
Davie – Automating DNS-01 The Less Lazy Way (with acme-dns)
Jack Baker – Evil ELFs and Dishonest DWARFs – Breaking Analysis Tools using Malicious Symbols
Kody Kinzie – Beginner Microcontroller Education: Teach Ethical Hacking On A Budget
Merlin Corey – SOARing Snakes: Python for Security Orchestration Automation and Response
Nathaniel Singer – Introduction to RF Demodulation
Sanjana Sarda (meap) – Everything Wrong with “AI” Security
vyrus – The Silver Bullet Ecosystem and You!

You can read full details of each talk by clicking the links above or by visiting the Speaker page!

You have until May 1st to get a discount on LayerOne 2024 registration! Head over to the registration page to get your Early Bird tickets now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff