The Celestial Wayfinder: A Defcon 34 Badge
Presenting the Celestial Wayfinder Badge: A LoRa mesh communicator with GPS designed to let you ping where you are and find your way to what's happening. The Wayfinder has a cyberpunk industrial design with customizable and interchangeable 3D printed parts, gateron green mechanical keyboard switches, haptic feedback, and an OLED screen.
Running on an ESP32, the firmware is open source and extensible, and can be easily updated via the USB-C port. The port recharges the onboard lithium-ion battery and the hardware has been battle-tested through 5+ revisions across conferences, festivals, and burns.
Pre-order today at: https://wyrdwyrks.com/celestial-wayfinder/
Pickup details TBD, but we should have 2 badge drops that will be updated on the web page and intend to be at the reddit meetup.
Complete Edition - Full 3D printed case, fully assembled and ready to go: $150
DIY Edition - Minimal 3D printed case with some assembly required: $125
Hardware Features:
- ESP32-S3 microcontroller
- Custom 4-layer PCB
- 128×128 OLED display
- SX1276 LoRa
- Case: carabiner and lanyard attachment points
- Integrated GPS module
- Magnetometer + IMU
- 5× Cherry MX-compatible mechanical switches
- Tactile rotary encoder
- 61 WS2812B LEDs
- Buzzer: new message alert
Firmware Features:
- Custom LoRa mesh: self-healing, minimal config
- Custom windowing UI system
- Flash-persisted saved messages and locations
- Breakout
- PWA for configuration
- Open source
