This year's Defcon had a hardware hacking kit you could buy featuring the Parallax Propeller chip, a nifty eight processor microcontroller.

And what better way to test out that the board works than to solder up a nice vga/ps2/audio shield so I could check out the Turbulence Demo.

The Defcon 17 HHV Propeller Board

Showing the top of the VGA/PS2/audio shield

The underside of the shield.