NYC Resistor

If we only had $6,000 to spare. Perhaps some kind soul would send one to NYC Resistor for us to play with. (srsly!)

Video embedded below. Original article here.

You’ve dreamed of it… now it exists. Credits to Adam Cecchetti, Astera, and Eric Skiff.

Open Source Economic Council

Date: Tuesday, Feb 24
Time: 8 PM
Location (in NYC): Famous Ray’s, 831 7th Ave (btw 53rd and 54th).

Tuesday, tomorrow—Justin, Matt and Mike from liquidware crew will be hosting an Open Source Economic Council meeting to talk about open source finance. More info here.

Lenny wrote to us about a project he’s completed and to thank us for helping him with some laser needs. I gotta say, I’m really impressed with what he’s built. It’s actually stunning. Check it out!

I don’t usually try to pimp our classes, but the laser class is absolutely one of the best things we’ve done. The amount of people stopping in and taking advantage of our laser to do insanely cool stuff is truly inspiring. I think I speak for everyone at resistor when I say, this is the reason we got the damned thing.

My friend Lou Amadio up in Seattle decided to really find out if his home was efficient, and if not then where the problems were. He turned to a really AWESOME solution: a thermal imaging camera. His blog entry is filled with all sorts of cool pictures of his house. I really want to do this in my tiny apartment for no reason other than to get some cool pix.

Think Geek sent us 7 boxes full of Cyber Surfers that needed to be “disposed of”.  We said no problem.  What are we doing with 20+ cyber surfers?  Having a helicopter war of course!  The rules are as follows:

• The destruction will take place on Feb. 28th an hour before sunset. Don’t be late.
• The location is still TBA
• You must mod your chopper to be on a different frequency than the others, fly it on xbee or swap the crystal
• If you are getting this post emailed to you – you know who you are and what your role is
• Any way of destruction is acceptable as long as it doesn’t harm humans from 10 yards away
• Be creative, the person who takes down the most other choppers wins
• This is what the inside of your controller looks like, but you should already know that:

We at NYCResistor are doing some PRO BONO work with skynet research.

We’re excited.

Our friends at Bug Labs will be hosting the next Make:NYC Meeting!

It’ll be on Thursday February 26th, 6:30PM at Bug Labs.

598 Broadway at Houston
4th floor
New York, NY 10012

6/B/D/F/V to Bleeker-Lafayette
R/W to Prince

Read more at makenyc.org

My parents recently visited my aunt and uncle in china, and while there they picked up some rather nice high end watches direct from the factories. Most of the time, my father prefers his digital, and only wants to wear the watch he picked up in china when he’s in more formal dress. Thing is, the watch he bought is autowinding, so it’s always either dead, or at the very least really wrong every time he puts it on. So he asked me to come up with a crazy contraption to wind his watch. This is what I came up with:

Check out the pipetastic mad whack watch winder.

I’ve always wanted my own supercomputer. Let’s be honest, what self-respecting geek doesn’t? Unfortunately, I’m usually poor, and I live in a space that’s ~300 ft^2 (that I share with someone else), so actually owning anything considered  “super” is out of the question. Fortunately, “Supercomputers” from the 1980’s weren’t actually all that complicated, and cheap FPGA boards have gotten pretty good. On that note, crank up the Devo and check out the Non-Von1.