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Nugget Timeline
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2018
Kody starts teaching Wi-Fi hacking classes at Pasadena City College and at conferences using microcontrollers including the ESP8266
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2019
Kody partners with Brandon at Pasadena City College to make their first Wi-Fi hacking CTF, the Chicken Man Game, using ESP8266 microcontrollers, and present it again at the LayerOne conference
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2019
At Chaos Communication Congress, Kody teaches Wi-Fi hacking workshops with the ESP8266 and meets researcher Spacehuhn.
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2020
After a discussion about making microcontrollers more useful for teaching, Kody and Spacehuhn collaborate on the Andromeda deauther, an ESP8266 design that can accept any type of Wi-Fi antenna to extend the signal range.
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2020
While teaching Wi-Fi hacking classes, Spacehuhn and Kody collaborate on the V3 Deauther software to provide more useful lessons, introducing Wi-Fi foxhunting, Wi-Fi phishing, and beacon beacon swarm attacks with monitoring.
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2021
Kody proposes a remake of the Deauther Wristwatch for education, but he and Spacehuhn disagree that it should be cat themed. Spacehuhn’s design becomes the hackheld.
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2021
Alex Lynd joins and designs the first Nugget PCB, based on Kody’s parts list and design goals for ethical hacking education. They agree it should be cat-shaped, based on the Wemos D1 Mini, and named it after Kody’s cat, Hand Banana.
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2021
Retia LLC invests $20k+ into research, development, hardware, and workshop costs for 10+ generations of Nuggets, including battery powered, horizontal, and catboy designs
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2021
The Nugget project is open sourced on GitHub
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2021
Retia publishes the first Nugget videos on Hak5 featuring Alex and Kody, generating 100+ orders overnight
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2021
Alex designs and open-sources the first 3d printed case to protect the Nugget’s screen in transit, and later adds a d-pad button. Kody adds lanyard cut-outs, a badge hanger, and a reset button over the ear.
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2021
Alex writes Invader and HaxxDetector demos for teaching with the Wi-Fi Nugget
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2021
Hackerboxes features the Nugget in their open-source “Lan-Lord” kit
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2021
Kody prototypes the first USB Nugget by adding the new S2 Mini to the Wi-Fi Nugget PCB.
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2021
Kody writes the first prototype badUSB “RubberNugget” program in CircuitPython
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2021
Alex refactors the RubberNugget into the Arduino-based USB Nugget OS, with a web interface, payload selection, and more features
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2022
Kody writes the Damn Vulnerable Nugget CTF
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2022
Kody, Alex, and the rest of the Retia team attend Defcon with Hak5 and sell Nuggets to hundreds of fans
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2022
Brandon joins the team and upgrades the USB Nugget web interface
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2022
Alex leaves to start DevKitty, a fork of the Nugget project on what was formally the Hakcat github repo.
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2023
Angelina Tsuboi creates the Nugget.dev flashing site, designed to make trying any supported Nugget project beginner-friendly
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2023
Arya Voronova designs the Nugget Breadboard add-on for prototyping and the first v3 Nugget PCB
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2023
Retia team hosts a week-long “CyberCat Hacking Academy” camp for middle-school students featuring the USB Nugget
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2023
Created a Nugget Defcon IR laser tag + battery badge via a collaboration between Brandon, Arya, Angelina, Cristian and Kody
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2023
Retia team collaborates with Hackerwarehouse to sell Nuggets and host our Defcon game in the vendor area
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2024
Arya creates the Nugget LiPo Battery Add-on
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2024
At Chaos Communication Congress, the Retia team teaches 175+ students ethical hacking using the Nugget
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2024
Arya creates v2 of the breadboard add-on, the Nugget protoboard add-on, and the new V3 PCB Design
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2024
Jacob designs the LoRa add-on module for adding 2 LoRa modules to the Nugget
