Where agency sees attack, MIT students talk of constructive exploration.

Joe Grand, aka Kingpin, who's been designing badges for the DefCon hacker conference the last couple of years, is part of a new Discovery Channel program on robot and product prototyping.

…Since it's about making and modding robots and other gizmos, it sounds like a Mythbusters-meets-Makerfaire geeky heaven.

The Discovery Channel will launch Prototype This! on October 15th, featuring hosts Terry Sandin, Zoz Brooks, Joe Grand, and Mike North.

You have to hand it to Joe Grand. He’s clearly got this whole work thing figured out. Grand’s day job as the head of Grand Idea Studio is essentially to sit around and come up with clever ideas for new products and then help build them.