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The badge serves as an antenna to pick up ACARS and ADS-B transmissions from aircraft flying nearby (RTL-SDR and SMA connector NOT included in this kit). ​ Our badge was inspired by the work of Richard Hansen & Zachary Klein who published “A $49 Aerospace Cybersecurity Lab: RF Data Communications for Undergraduate Cyber Education” in The Colloquium, with inputs from Dan Allen who led the efforts for this final design, advising on the logistics for the parts and assembly. ​ AC

This year’s badge began with the basic idea of introducing the pilot’s perspective of an airfield and present that to an audience that could both appreciate and interact with as if they themselves were the pilot. By collaborating with the artist of flysurreal.com the idea was taken to a completely new level pushing the boundaries of both art and science into a single badge. ​ The badge has something to offer for everyone. For the visually inclined the amazing and detailed art

The 2022 badge began with the idea of designing around all 4 of our domains, Air Traffic Management, Airports, Aircraft, and Space. From there, we wanted to encourage creativity and free expression by allowing everyone to customize their badge using the SAO standard: https://hackaday.com/2019/03/20/introducing-the-shitty-add-on-v1-69bis-standard/ The kit contains the base badge with 5 SAO ports, and three included SAOs. ​ Special thanks to @cybertestpilot for the amazing ba

Celebrating 120 years of aviation and 5 years of the Aerospace Village. This Wright Flyer badge was inspired by the famous picture taken during the first of four flights made by the Wright Brothers on December 17th, 1903. In only 120 years, humanity has broken the sound barrier, made commercial flying safe and viable, sent astronauts to the moon and back, and even started making commercial space travel a reality. Humanity has achieved so much from those early days of the Wrig

The Aerospace Village badge for DC32 (2024) truly is both a feat of engineering and a work of art. The headlining feature of the badge is its ability to natively receive and display nearby aircraft using the ADS-B signals that most aircraft transmit. What normally takes specialized components and an SDR to receive the 1090 MHz signal, this badge uses some hardware hacks and clever trickery to make regular components do the work. ​ But this badge doesn't just display aircraft,