Grand Idea Studio

DEFCON 16 Badge

DEFCON 16 Badge

The DEFCON 16 Badge was created for the 2008 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge uses active electronics, an artistically-designed circuit board, and provides intentionally “open” circuitry to allow attendees to …

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Events

13 Jan

dorkbot sf

TBD
San Francisco, CA

Joe Grand presents "The Projects of Prototype This," an inside look at designing and building projects for Discovery Channel's Prototype This TV show while under extreme time and financial pressure.

Company News

Build Your Own Electronic Game Kit Goes Open Source

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-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, allowing all aspects of the design, including schematic, source code, and circuit board design files, to be modified and repurposed at will.

Press

Sacramento News & Review

Joe Grand: Host of Prototype This

EDN Magazine

RFID in embedded designs: Your move

Metro

The engineers finally ...

Information Security Magazine

Hardware security guru, ...