Portfolio Archive
Flexible Spectacles
The Flexible Spectacles are an artistic exploration into creating low-end eyewear using high-end manufacturing processes. [ continue ]
Interface Boards
Interface boards are simple, convenient necessities used during product development, testing, or hacking. [ continue ]
Right to Repair
Right to Repair is a grassroots effort to fight against the closed, monopolized repair tactics of many modern technology vendors and to raise bipartisan awareness of the need for consumers to be able to repair their devices. Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has written an open letter in support of Right to Repair. [ continue ]
Passion Before Fashion: Stories From a Life of Hacking
The hacker community has changed since Joe Grand first discovered it as a kid in 1982. Back then, tinkering with technology was a guarantee for ridicule and torment. Only those truly curious were connecting to computer systems, traversing the telephone network, and occasionally causing mischief. Today, hackers have largely become accepted into mainstream society and, at times, even influenced by corporate culture. [ continue ]
Hacking, Phreaking, & Juvenile Delinquency
In a time when tinkering with technology was a guarantee for ridicule and torment, a small group of curious explorers were connecting to computer systems, traversing the telephone network, and occasionally causing mischief. [ continue ]