Grand Idea Studio

chumby

chumby

chumby is an inexpensive, Wi-Fi enabled content delivery device designed to be used around the home to display a set of user-customizable widgets - small Adobe Flash animations that provide real-time information, such as weather, stock quotes, RSS feeds, or pictures. The chumby is architected to be as open as possible for users, including hardware hackers, open-source software programmers, and artists, who may want to modify any aspect of the device.

Primary features include an ARM-based  [ continue ]

Events

8Aug

DEFCON 16

Riviera Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, NV

Joe Grand will be giving three talks, "Making the DEFCON 16 Badge," "BSODomizer" with Zoz, and "Brain Games: Make your own Biofeedback Video Game" with Ne0nRa1n. He will also be hosting a few short sessions in the new Hardware Hacking …

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Company News

Patent Granted for Low-Cost Heads-Up Display Technology

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio along with David Morelock, Gil Manalo, and Ricardo Cruz, have been granted patent #7,249,846 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, entitled Eyewear with an Image Projected off of an Unassisted Eyewear Lens to the User, describes a low-cost method of displaying information optically on an existing eyewear lens. This method and …

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Press

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