Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Joe Grand: The Origin Story Joe Grand Also known as Kingpin Computer engineer, hardware hacker, product designer, teacher, advisor, runner, daddy, honorary doctor, TV host, member of legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries Proprietor of Grand Idea Studio. Our first guest to have a Wikipedia page Has been creating, exploring, and manipulating electronic systems since the 1980s. Parker and Joe meet each other at the unofficial propeller expo in Sacramento. This what right around the time MacroFab was starting in 2013. Joe "flew" Ken's brand new quadcopter  IRC channel #tymkrs on afternet Joe first discovered the hacker world at 7 years old in 1983. First online name was "black ninja" then went to fbi agent, astro zombie, autovahn, the youth, before settling on Kingpin. Joe's first hardware hack he remembers was the Ring Busy Device - you can still use the phone, but if someone called, it would give a busy signal. Built with circuit board from Radio Shack kit. Came with switch so he could turn it