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Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module Licensed to Parallax

Tuesday, Jul 3rd, 2012

Parallax, Inc. has become the exclusive licensee of Grand Idea Studio’s Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module, a multi-language voice synthesizer that converts a stream of digital text into natural sounding speech output. Emic 2 is the highly anticipated follow-up to Grand Idea Studio’s original Emic module released in 2003. Parallax will handle … [ continue ]

Joe Grand to Host Freescale’s Make It Challenge

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio will be hosting the Make It Challenge at the Freescale Technology Forum Americas 2012. This design contest challenges participants to create and race an autonomous line-following vehicle using the Freescale Cup car chassis. [ continue ]

Joe Grand to Guest Judge at West Point’s Projects Day

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Joe Grand will be participating as a guest judge in the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Projects Day for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) to be held on May 3, 2012. The purpose of the EECS Projects Day is for senior cadets to present … [ continue ]

Joe Grand Joins MakerBot Advisory Board

Tuesday, Nov 8th, 2011

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has joined the Advisory Board for MakerBot Industries. MakerBot is a provider of open-source, consumer-grade 3D printers that allow users to print nearly anything they can imagine. Since November 2010, Joe has been assisting in the review of MakerBot’s electrical engineering designs and … [ continue ]

Laser Range Finder Licensed to Parallax

Friday, Sep 16th, 2011

Parallax, Inc. has become the exclusive licensee of Grand Idea Studio’s Laser Range Finder module, a distance measuring instrument that uses laser technology to calculate the distance to a targeted object up to 8 feet away. Parallax provides technically innovative, unique, and economical products to the electronics industry and will handle all manufacturing, … [ continue ]

Press

MAKE: Blog

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Joe Grand

Joe has been on the MAKE technical advisory board since … [ continue ]

Project Magazine (iPad)

The Hacker Strikes Back: The Rise of the Neo Hacker

In just ten years, the word ‘hacker’ has gone from … [ continue ]

This Machine Kills Secrets

How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free ...

At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who … [ continue ]

Reuters

Experts hope to shield cars from computer viruses

Security experts say that automakers have so far failed to … [ continue ]

GeekWire

ToorCamp Journal, Day 1: Let the hacking begin

After getting cleaned up, eating some camping breakfast, and relaxing … [ continue ]

The Prototypers Podcast

Professor X

Special guests Joe Grand and “The Professor” join us to … [ continue ]

Network World

The Birth of Hardware Badge Hacking

Joe Grand, once known as Kingpin with the legendary hacking … [ continue ]

Hack a Day

Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module

This is the Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module. You can see … [ continue ]

Press

MAKE: Blog

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things ...

Project Magazine (iPad)

The Hacker Strikes Back: ...

This Machine Kills Secrets

How WikiLeakers, ...