Company News
Design Patent Granted for chumby
Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio along with Steve Adler, Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Duane Maxwell, Ken Steele, Steve Tomlin, and Thomas Meyerhoffer have been granted patent #D592,678 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent describes an ornamental design for chumby, an Internet media player. [ continue ]
Joe Grand Nominated for Honorary Degree
Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has been nominated for a degree of Doctor of Technology (Hon) from the University of Advancing Technology. Each year, the University seeks to award an honorary doctorate to an individual whose life work emulates the kind of technology innovations found in their ... [ continue ]
Build Your Own Electronic Game Kit Goes Open Source
The Build Your Own Electronic Game Kit designed by Grand Idea Studio is a custom circuit board kit intended to introduce hobbyists to the world of electronics and soldering. This highly-popular kit is now distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, allowing all aspects of ... [ continue ]
Joe Grand’s Discovery Channel Debut on Prototype This
Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio is a co-host of Prototype This, a new engineering entertainment program for Discovery Channel. The show is centered around the conception, design, and testing of gadgets, machines, and robots, and aims to follow the real-life engineering process of a unique prototype every ... [ continue ]
RFID Reader Module with USB Interface Released
The Parallax RFID Reader Module, designed by Grand Idea Studio and exclusively manufactured and distributed by Parallax, Inc., is available in a new version with a USB interface. Previously only available in a simple 4-wire serial interface, the RFID Reader Module is a low-cost solution to read passive RFID transponder ... [ continue ]