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Case Study: Grand Idea Studio achieves rapid, reliable TV prototype electronics with Altium Designer
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Engineering Celebrity Joe Grand uses Altium Designer to Create “Crazy” but Challenging Electronics Designs for Popular TV Show
Joe Grand, founder of Grand Idea Studio and co‑host of Discovery Channel’s Prototype This, needed to deliver complex, unconventional electronics under extreme TV production timelines. With episodes giving him only days to go from breadboard to finale‑ready circuit boards for projects like a mind‑controlled car and a “Traffic Busting Truck,” he needed a professional, dependable design tool that wouldn’t slow the team down or introduce errors.
He chose Altium Designer for its unified schematic-to‑PCB workflow, fast capture and auto‑routing, and reliable data synchronization. Using Altium, Joe completed designs and sent boards for single‑day fabrication—most notably designing the truck control PCB in a two‑day turnaround that worked first time—allowing the team to meet filming deadlines, avoid rework, and continue using Altium for faster, error‑free product development.
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Grand Idea Studio
Joe Grand
Grand Idea Studio