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Design Patent Granted for chumby

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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

Monday, Feb 2nd, 2009

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

Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2008

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

Friday, Sep 19th, 2008

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

Wednesday, Aug 27th, 2008

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 ]

Press

Robot Magazine

Live the Life of a Rock Star: Robotics Engineers in the ...

The transformation from geeky to cool - from pocket protectors ... [ continue ]

SC Magazine

Black Hat topics include hacking parking meters, social ...

People typically park their car, put money in the meter, ... [ continue ]

InternetNews.com

Hacking Parking Meters is Black Hat Business

For IT security researchers, anything that is connected to a ... [ continue ]

theexpiredmeter.com

Meter Meltdown Remains A Mystery

It’s been nearly a week since Chicago’s “Massive Meter Meltdown” ... [ continue ]

CBS2 Chicago

Did Computer Sabotage Cause Pay-Parking Meltdown?

Day 5 and counting for the investigation into the great ... [ continue ]

The Jewish Museum

Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish ...

The exhibition maps the 21st century avant-garde expressions of design ... [ continue ]

MAKE: Online

Checkin' In: Hacker Kingpin Joe Grand

Joe Grand is always getting into something interesting. He's been ... [ continue ]

Network World

Hacker Joe Grand offers IT advice

Joe Grand, a hardware hacker and host of Discovery's Prototype ... [ continue ]

Press

Robot Magazine

Live the Life of a Rock ...

SC Magazine

Black Hat topics include ...

InternetNews.com

Hacking Parking Meters ...

theexpiredmeter.com

Meter Meltdown Remains A Mystery