Updating the Kernelcon 2022 Badge Wifi

So you got home, powered up your Kernelcon 2022 badge, and discovered that it won't boot without the conference wifi network?  It took me a little bit, but I finally figured out how to reflash the thing with new wifi settings.  Turns out you just need to teach an Arduino IDE to talk to an ESP 8266 board, and you can upload the code with new wifi settings easily.

Let's do the Arduino set-up first:

1. Download and install the Arduino IDE
2. Open it up and go to File > Preferences
3. In "Additional Boards Manager URLs" add
   https://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
4. Hit "OK"
5. Go to Tools > Board: ____ > Boards Manager
6. For "Filter your search" type "ESP8266" and let it find the module
   
7. Click "Install" and it should download and install the add-on
8. Click "Close" when that's done
9. Select Tools > Board: ____ > ESP8266 Boards > Generic ESP8266 Module
10. Select Tools > Flash size: ____ > 4MB (FS:1MB OTA:~1019KB)
11. Plug in your badge and switch it on
12. Go to Tools > Port and select the port it's on.  (Kali picked /dev/ttyUSB0)

At this point, you can load whatever Arduino code you like.  The official Kernelcon badge code uses a JSON library, so if you're going to reload the official code, install the JSON library first.

1. In the IDE select Tools > Manage Libraries
2. Search for "ArduinoJson" and click "Install" to add it
3. Click "Close" when it's done installing.
   

Finally, let's fetch the original badge code, update the wifi settings, and upload it to the badge.

1. Download and unzip the ZonkSec kernelcon-2022-badge code
2. In the Arduino IDE, open kernelcon_watch_v4.ino
3. This opens all the source files.  Select the wifi.h file tab
4. Update the SSID and password values and save the file
5. Select Sketch > Upload and watch it compile and transfer
6. The badge will restart, and it should use your updated wifi settings as it does.
   

That's it!  Mess around with the badge code some more, if you like.  Or go find some ESP8266 code and mess with the little guy.  For me, my next step is to try to get the original deauther code running.