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Awesome Electronics Workshop Video Podcasts

Tuesday, Feb 6th, 2007

In conjunction with MAKE, Grand Idea Studio introduces the Awesome Electronics Workshop, a series of skill-building video podcasts. Primarily focusing on electronics and engineering tutorials for hobbyists, the videos cover any component or technology interesting or compelling enough for us to experiment with.

Small Scale Digital Device Forensic Journal Editorial Board

Wednesday, Jan 3rd, 2007

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Small Scale Digital Device Forensic Journal, an online journal focused on the theory, research, and practice of forensic acquisition and analysis techniques for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, audio and visual devices, gaming platforms, and other embedded technologies. Joe will provide guidance on the Journal's technical direction and will review submitted works for inclusion into the Journal.

GPS Receiver Module Licensed to Parallax

Friday, Sep 15th, 2006

Parallax, Inc. has become the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of Grand Idea Studio's Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Module, a fully integrated, low-cost unit that provides standard NMEA0183 (National Marine Electronics Association) information or specific data, such as current time, date, latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and travel direction/heading, via a serial interface. The module can be used in a wide variety of hobbyist and commercial applications, including navigation, tracking systems, mapping, fleet management, auto-pilot, and robotics.

Badge Design for DEFCON 14

Friday, Aug 4th, 2006

Grand Idea Studio has created the event badge for this year's DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world, held August 4-6, 2006. The DEFCON 14 Badge contains active electronics mounted on an artistically designed printed circuit board. Over 6,000 badges were manufactured and subsequently sold out within hours of the convention's opening.

Book Release: Best Of Hardware Hacking

Thursday, Jun 1st, 2006

Grand Idea Studio and Syngress Publishing announce the release of Joe Grand's Best of Hardware Wireless Game Console Hacking. This combination book and DVD contains a selection of the most popular hacks from our Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty and Game Console Hacking books. Joe Grand was the primary author of this hands-on guide that features over 16 genres of step-by-step product modification and personalization projects.

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