After months of hard work (and more than a few hurdles), I’m excited to finally launch the Sword of Secrets: a pocket-sized hardware CTF platform designed to challenge your skills, break your assumptions, and teach you to think like an attacker. Whether you’re new to hardware or a seasoned hacker, this platform has something for you.

Right out of the box, you’ll get:

• Four unique challenges, ready for exploitation
• A self-programming interface, so you can load new riddles and challenges as they come
• A sleek keychain sword design, so your next hack fits right in your pocket

This project isn’t just an idea, it’s already battle-tested. Months of prototyping, iteration, and hard lessons have brought the Sword of Secrets from concept to reality. Here’s what we’ve achieved so far:

• The community has spoken: dozens of you voted on the final design, and the winning look has already gone through a successful prototype run. It looks even better in person.
• We've completed several production runs to refine the process: some a success, others...a reminder that hardware is hard. From mouse bites breaking to a solder-mask mishap (thanks, manufacturer), every mistake pushed us to improve.
• Despite the regional situation slowing things down (turns out war doesn't pair well with logistics), the project never stopped moving forward.
• I'm proud to share that we've passed RoHS and EMI tests! CE certification is in the bag.
• The Sword doesn’t just come in a plain box: I've been working on unique packaging with custom graphics to make the unboxing experience worthy of the quest.

Everything is in place. Manufacturing is ready. Let’s go.