NYC Resistor

My friend Becky made me an Arduino birthday cake this year! There was a fight over the AVR chip (dark chocolate) which involved memory loss and a cake knife. Candles became wire sticking out of the pins. Seriously awesome. Next task: to make LED candles that you have to short out instead of blow out.

Last night while we were all enjoying the glory that is Hackers, I hacked together this quick DTMF tone generator for GBA. I’ll post the source soon, you can have the ROM now. It doesn’t sound quite right to me, but I’ll put it to the test today and see if I can drive a payphone with it. I plan to use some telephone tones in one of my upcoming demo routines.

Due to Julia Stiles being “elite”, and a “console cowboy” on “the wired” we have decided to put forth an invitation to Julia Stiles to become an official friend of Resistor. Julia please contact us at your earliest convenience.

Zach Smith tells us about his Danger Shield for Arduino.

Want to learn how to use an Arduino and get one of these awesome shields? Sign up for Zach’s Arduino classes at the space.

In this video: Zach ‘Hoeken’ Smith, Eric Skiff (behind the camera / CC-BY music), and Raphael Abrams and Nick Bilton in the background.
With apologies to Kenny Loggins “High-way-to-the…Danger Shield!”

The Danger Shield may be the most badass microcontroller accessory, but I think this gets the prize for the prettiest microcontroller project yet. - Link

Bigger MOV media. - Link

Thursdays are craft night at NYCR and this week we had all sorts of things going on. People were making the coolest crafts! (More posts about deadly soft crafted robots and knitted scarfs made with number sets later.)

Danielle arrived with homemade marshmallows and it took about 15 seconds to whip out the Jacob’s Ladder and roast them with 15,000 volts of electricity. They tasted good that way too!

I interviewed I-Wei a few years ago about his awesome steampunk rc creations. He’s got another awesome project up on his site made with some spare RC parts he had laying around. Link

Yesterday, the awesome Kelly Farrell took some time to demo the knitting machine that Bre’s got at the NYCResistor space. The machine looks incredibly confusing when you first open it up, but Kelly makes it look easy. She even fixes a problem on the fly in this video.

Want to see the knitting machine in action? Maybe if we ask really nicely Kelly will break it out again for a demo at our public “Microcontroller Study Group” meeting next Wednesday!

In this video: Kelly Farrell, Eric Skiff (behind the camera / CC-BY music), Raphael Abrams (”this machine is my grandma!”), George Shammas, and Bre’s knitting machine.

Via Laughing Squid