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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.

Workshops at the Maker Faire

Saturday, Apr 1st, 2006

Grand Idea Studio will be presenting workshops at the premiere Maker Faire, a creative weekend celebrating science and technology and sponsored by O'Reilly Media. The workshops, entitled Hands-On Hardware Hacking and Grand Idea Studio Open Lab, are intended to foster interest in electronics and do-it-yourself product development.

Lik-Sang.com Distributes Stelladaptor

Tuesday, Nov 1st, 2005

Lik-Sang.com, the largest online video game and accessory importer in the world, has become a distributor of Grand Idea Studio's Stelladaptor Atari 2600 Controller-to-USB Interface. The Stelladaptor allows the use of standard Atari 2600-compatible controllers, including joysticks, paddles, and driving controllers, with modern computers running Windows, Macintosh, or Linux operating systems. Please visit Lik-Sang.com's SmartJoy Section for more details.

Best Academic Paper of 2004

Wednesday, Jun 1st, 2005

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio and Brian Carrier of Purdue University's work entitled "A Hardware-Based Memory Acquisition Procedure for Digital Investigations" was selected as the Best Academic Paper of the Year for 2004 by the Digital Investigation Journal Editorial Board. The work is based on Joe and Brian's 'Tribble' product concept and presents the general requirements and procedure for the acquisition of volatile memory from a compromised computer.

RFID Reader Module Licensed to Parallax

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

Parallax, Inc., creators of the BASIC Stamp microcontroller family, has become the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of Grand Idea Studio's Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Reader Module. The module is the first low-cost, integrable solution to read passive RFID transponder tags from up to four inches away and can be used in a wide variety of hobbyist and commercial applications, including access control, automatic identification, robotics, navigation, inventory tracking, payment systems, and car immobilization.

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