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Hardware Hacking Training

Saturday, Jan 1st, 2011

Grand Idea Studio’s Hardware Hacking Training, taught exclusively by Joe Grand, focuses on hardware hacking and reverse engineering techniques commonly used against hardware products. It is a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, culminating with students attempting to defeat the security of a custom-designed circuit board. [ continue ]

RID Goggles

Friday, Sep 24th, 2010

Grand Idea Studio’s Reflective Image Display (RID) technology is a low-cost, simple, and effective method of heads-up display for use on goggles or other protective eyewear. RID creates a visual display utilizing the reflective quality of the eyewear lens, producing an image which appears to float a few inches in front of the wearer’s eyes. [ continue ]

Field Monitor Pro / Monitor2Go

Wednesday, Sep 1st, 2010

The Field Monitor Pro and Monitor2Go are the world’s first clamshell portable monitors. They use DisplayLink’s USB graphics technology to give a laptop, work computer, or home computer an immediate secondary display through a simple USB connection. [ continue ]

Laser Position Sensor

Wednesday, Aug 25th, 2010

The Laser Position Sensor (LPS) module is an optical sensor that measures and provides the two-dimensional coordinates of visible red laser light (630-694nm) shined onto its surface. [ continue ]

DEFCON 18 Badge

Wednesday, Jul 14th, 2010

The DEFCON 18 Badge was created for the 2010 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge features active electronics mounted on an artistically designed, aluminum substrate printed circuit board. [ continue ]

Press

MAKE Magazine

Let the Games Begin

Internet Rising

Something Epic This Way Comes

EEWeb

Engineering Site of the Day