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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 ]

Joe Grand to Host Freescale’s Make It Challenge

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio will be hosting the Make It Challenge at the Freescale Technology Forum Americas 2011. This 36-hour design contest challenges participants to create a unique project based on Freescale’s Mechatronics Robot platform or Tower System modules. [ continue ]

Partnership with tool.

Thursday, Feb 17th, 2011

Grand Idea Studio has joined into a partnership with product design and development firm, tool., Inc. Grand Idea Studio will enhance tool.’s offering of industrial design and mechanical engineering services by providing electronics design expertise on selected projects. [ continue ]

RFID Read/Write Module Licensed to Parallax

Wednesday, Jul 14th, 2010

The RFID Read/Write Module is the third in a family of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products designed by Grand Idea Studio and exclusively licensed to Parallax, Inc. The module provides a low-cost solution to read and write passive RFID transponder tags, which can be password protected to allow only authorized … [ continue ]

Press

MAKE Magazine

Let the Games Begin

Homebrew Video Game Cartridges: MAKE contributor Joe Grand offers detailed … [ continue ]

Internet Rising

Something Epic This Way Comes

Internet Rising is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between … [ continue ]

EEWeb

Engineering Site of the Day

EEWeb, a premier electrical engineering community for hardware designers, has … [ continue ]

ZombieTech

An interview with Joe Grand

This week, we are talking with Joe Grand about computer … [ continue ]

Hack a Day

The Amp Hour Interviews Joe Grand

The Amp Hour, a podcast of electronics enthusiasts and professionals … [ continue ]

Mashable

10 Unique Creations Made From Computer Hard Drives

From upcylcled drives made into jewelry, to discarded drives transformed … [ continue ]

The Amp Hour

Pancyclopaedic Prototyping Polymath

We welcome our guest this week: Joe Grand! Hardware hacker, … [ continue ]

The Usual Suspects Radio Show

Live from DEFCON 19

Audio: Please follow the link to listen. [ continue ]

Press

MAKE Magazine

Let the Games Begin

Internet Rising

Something Epic This Way Comes

EEWeb

Engineering Site of the Day