Grand Idea Studio

Miscellany

Hard Drive Coffee Table

Saturday, Aug 18th, 2007

The Hard Drive Coffee Table is built from an original 26 inch diameter hard drive platter from an early storage device, the Control Data Corporation 6603 Disk File Controller manufactured … [ continue ]

DEFCON 15 Badge

Monday, Aug 6th, 2007

The DEFCON 15 Badge was created for the 2007 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge … [ continue ]

RoboFlush

Tuesday, Jul 17th, 2007

RoboFlush: The Automatic Toilet Flusher is a quick-and-dirty hack to solve a nagging problem with a toilet that requires its handle to be held down for the entire flush cycle. … [ continue ]

Atari K-9

Thursday, Jan 25th, 2007

The Atari K-9 is a case modification and art installation created to pay homage to Joe Grand’s first personal computer, the Atari 400 8-bit home computer, and one … [ continue ]

Circuit Board Night Light

Thursday, Nov 9th, 2006

The Circuit Board Night Light was created from six non-functioning DEFCON 14 Badges. Five boards are fastened together with L-shaped corner braces and round-head slotted machine screws to create … [ continue ]

Press

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Double Stuffed w/ Joe Grand

Government Computer News

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