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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: Joe Grand, Creating The World's Thinnest Boombox</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2024-08-01T19:00:00" datetime="2024-08-01T19:00:00">Thursday, August 1, 2024 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2024-08-01T21:00:00" datetime="2024-08-01T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202397352'><span class='fn org p-name'>Oregon Latvian Community Center</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">5500 SW Dosch Road</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97239</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">USA</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=5500%20SW%20Dosch%20Road,%20Portland%20OR%2097239%20USA'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Fresh Beats: Creating The World's Thinnest Boombox</p> <p>Combining 1980s music culture with a retro future, The World's Thinnest Boombox is a portable Linux-based sound system featuring active electronics mounted onto an artistically designed printed circuit board. In this presentation, Joe will discuss his engineering process, the complex circuit board fabrication techniques used in the project, and the challenges he faced along the way.</p> <p>Bio: (scraped from <a href="https://grandideastudio.com/about/">https://grandideastudio.com/about/</a>)</p> <p>Joe Grand is a product designer, hardware hacker, and the founder of Grand Idea Studio. He specializes in creating, exploring, manipulating, and teaching about electronic devices.</p> <p>Also known as Kingpin, Joe was a member of the legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries, where he helped raise awareness of the hacker ethos and the importance of independent security vulnerability research. He also brought engineering to the masses as a co-host of Discovery Channel’s Prototype This, which followed the real-life design process of a unique prototype every episode.</p> <p>Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and a Doctorate of Science in Technology (Honorary) degree from the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://pdxlinux.org/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>