We are pleased to debut the RV4sec 2015 logo by 14-year-old @AylaMadison
Ayla started thinking about a theme for RV4sec before creating the logo and came up with the idea “Inside the Mind of the Hacker”. The mental state of a hacker, all the things that are on security people’s mind, and what they think about. A quote from Nightingale that says “You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
The logo has a lot to it and we were really impressed by Ayla’s attention to detail. She has a bunch of tiny drawings of security gear and defense items from knights to ninjas to soldiers to cyberwarriors all jumbled into each other and represented as a bigger picture of a brain.
We hope you like the logo as much as we do, and find some time to check it out and even find some of the easter eggs!
drawn, usually with special software but hobbyists sometimes just draw them by hand. The gEDA software suite has a component called “pcb” that was used to draw the badge.
boards with the acid resist. Attempts last year worked but were not consistent.
The steel blade is 1/2″ thick and the whole thing weighs 60 lbs!
complicated, but it can be tedious to do, especially 350 times!
First a solder paste containing thousands of beads of tin is drawn across a stencil that leaves the sticky grey paste where the parts will be placed. This stencil is etched copper foil. Stencils can also be plastic or steel.
are carefully placed on the solder paste. We have had the help of over a dozen HackRVA people so far this year.
The solder paste has to be melted or “re-flowed” to electrically connect the parts to the PCB. This currently is not very hi-tech: $20 donated ovens. A volunteer last year built a micro- controlled unit but the heating element died on it.
human type. We had a board last year survive a 5-hour session underneath the oven, and it worked fine–though it looked like burnt toast!
button option (red in picture) which can be soldered across the middle and far right pin on the lower center 5-pin programming header.
