Radio Frequency Village·28 min
Coyo
Follows a hobbyist's urban radio direction-finding project, using a five-antenna KrakenSDR to bearing ham and FM transmitters in Portland.
toolpracticalproject+2
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Radio Frequency Village DC34
Las Vegas Convention Center · 6–9 August 2026 · 16 talks
Radio Frequency Village talks from DEF CON 34.
1–16 of 16 talks
Radio Frequency Village·40 min
Erwin Karincic
Shows how an AI assistant driving GNU Radio through a custom MCP server can detect SDRs, build flow graphs, and demodulate a proprietary sub-GHz protocol.
aireverse-engineeringdevice+2
Radio Frequency Village·29 min
Greg
Explains how drones appear on the RF spectrum, how Remote ID and DJI control links can be detected and decoded, how they can be spoofed or replayed, and where RF sensing falls short.
threat-detectionattackdevice+2
Radio Frequency Village·22 min
Michelle Thompson
Explains how amateur radio operators model and design a spread-tolerant waveform to bounce a data signal off Venus and back to Earth.
amateur-radiowaveform-designopen-source+2
Radio Frequency Village·37 min
hamspiced
Walks a self-described non-expert through building resonant NFC repeater antennas, from LC tank circuits and VNA tuning to parasitic-capacitance PCB designs.
hardwarebuildingopen-source+3
Radio Frequency Village·46 min
Iceman
Surveys a year of Proxmark firmware and client changes, covering new RFID attacks, community contributions, and the Proxmark 5 hardware.
hardwareopen-sourcedevice+2
Radio Frequency Village·54 min
Suomir Yask
Presents BLESS, a phone and ESP32 tool that fingerprints, controls and clones Bluetooth Low Energy devices, with examples of weak vendor implementations.
bluetoothiotreverse-engineering+2
Radio Frequency Village·16 min
John
Shows how a cheap Bluetooth Low Energy tracker built on an off-the-shelf M5Stack can follow a beacon's MAC address through a crowded venue using signal strength.
deviceprivacynetworks+1
Radio Frequency Village·27 min
Andy Hendrickson
Offers RF researchers a pre-transmit checklist, measurement habits, and myth-busting to run reproducible experiments without disrupting other spectrum users.
villageguidepractical+2
Radio Frequency Village·13 min
Smitriti Gaba
Presents RASM, a state machine methodology that guides RF security assessments from goal definition through SDR selection, signal capture, and decoding.
frameworktooldevice+1
Radio Frequency Village·55 min
Lozaning
Walks through building a private LTE network from base station and SIM provisioning through to telephony and a PSTN bridge, while staying within licensing rules.
networksmobilebuilding+2
Radio Frequency Village·27 min
Dalton
Shows how a HackRF-based tool passively observes Bluetooth Classic and Low Energy traffic, recovering piconet clocks and device addresses over the air.
bluetoothtooldevice+2
Radio Frequency Village·22 min
Aippan Rajeev
Shows how an open-source LTE base station and a cheap SDR, guided by an AI coding assistant, can push a fake emergency alert to nearby phones.
lteemergency-alertsai+2
Radio Frequency Village·18 min
Mayank Rajesh
Shows how a rogue LTE base station can broadcast forged emergency alerts to phones, built from open-source eNodeB software, a low-cost SDR and an LLM.
attacknetworkai+2
Radio Frequency Village·39 min
COD Segfalt
Presents the Wi-Fi Shuriken, a six-radio microcontroller scanner for wardriving that uses a shared binary bus and aggressive deduplication to collect more Wi-Fi networks per drive.
open-sourcehardwareembedded+2
Radio Frequency Village·23 min
Shows how the classic game Doom was ported to run entirely on a bladeRF software-defined radio's FPGA, with no host computer and video sent over RF.
hardwareembeddedreverse-engineering+1