Spectre Sniffer Badge

Introducing the Spectre Sniffer

Limited Release · DEF CON 34 · By NilbinSec

Remember 1984? Slime. Proton packs. A logo on every kid's lunchbox. A theme song you still know by heart. The guys who weren't afraid of no ghost.

We remember. And we built you a badge.

The Spectre Sniffer is NilbinSec's love letter to the era when ghost hunting was cool, arcades were real, and your Halloween costume came in a box with a plastic mask. Except this one actually works. It detects. It graphs. It talks. And whatever's wandering the con floor after midnight? It knows you're here now.

What's Haunting Your Lanyard:

• XIAO ESP32S3 -- the brain running this whole séance

• Live EMF Detector -- actively samples electromagnetic fields and renders a real-time spike graph. Watch the floor change as you move through the con. Try not to think about what's causing it.

• Integrated Spirit Box -- pulls words from the void using a randomized word bank, with EMF signal directly driving the output rate. Quiet room? Slow and eerie. EMF spike? The dead start talking fast.

• SAO v1.69bis connector with I2C -- plug in your friends, plug in your enemies, plug in your random Pac-Man Ghost SAO (included, 1 of 4 colors — the other holders are out there somewhere)

• Protected 18650 battery + lanyard -- hands-free ghost hunting, the way it was meant to be

• 1 and 2 player arcade games -- because even the paranormal needs a cooldown lap

• Secrets -- on the badge, in the firmware, encoded on the back. This is a NilbinSec badge. You know what that means.

The ghost on the front has been legally distinct-ified for your protection and ours. It knows what it did.

Pickup Only. No Shipping. No Exceptions. Badges drop at the Badgelife Village and announced locations around the LVCC on a published schedule. Miss your drop? Your badge gets donated to a deserving hacker at closing ceremonies. We are not hauling these home. We are not your storage unit. The ghosts, however, may follow you regardless.

$80 · 1 DEF CON

Real ones remember. Now they detect.