NYC Resistor

We’re doing another session of our Soft Circuits class! Learn to make functioning electronic circuits using conductive threads and fabrics. You will leave with samples of the materials we use in the class and a warm glow in your heart. Or in your pocket. Beginners welcome!

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(CORRECTION! This class is on SUNDAY, not saturday as originally written here.)

Our most popular class, Arduino and Soldering 101, is running again this Sunday (Dec 12th), and still has a few spaces left. If you’ve been curious about electronics and Arduino at all, this is where to start.

Make your own Arduino and learn how to use it in the same class!

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Description:


This is your friendly introductory class to soldering and
micro-controllers. In this three-hour class we will:

• Solder together a Freeduino board (an Arduino Duemilanove-compatible board)
• Learn how to program it using the Arduino environment
• Wire up several circuits and load up code to read sensors and light LEDs
• Cover variables, functions, basic Arduino functionality
• Show you how to get more help in the future for all your projects

When you leave, you’ll have a micro-controller, a mini-USB cable, a power supply and a few programs to play with.
The class will be taught by NYC Resistor members Liz Arum and Charles Pax.


Please bring a laptop with the Arduino environment on it. It’s available at http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.

Hilary and I will be speaking at the Y+30 meetup this coming monday at the 92nd street Y as part of a panel that will be discussing how people will communicate with machines (and vice versa) and with one another through machines.

The Y+30 meetup examines how various aspects of our lives might look in 30 years, and this panel should be very interesting! For my part, I’ll be bringing my experiments with openFrameworks, openCv, and some very raw Kinect hacking (thanks Widget!) as well as my monome.

Event link (note, this is not at NYC Resistor!)
http://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/calendar/15581753/

Event Excerpt:
As technology continues to evolve and innovate at breakneck speeds, we’ve seen human behavior upended in a miraculously short span of time. Not only has our manner of communication changed, but the very notion of communication and the communicative abilities available to us are completely different. How people relate to one another professionally, socially, and artistically are different than even ten years ago, and will likely be much different thirty years from now. This panel will examine these ideas from multiple perspectives, including digital art, policy, social media, human- computer interfaces, and more. A diverse collection of technologists will speak on the subject, and there will be demonstrations of gadgets and interfaces from hack collective NYCResistor and an art installation piece from digital media institute Harvestworks.

Tickets for this event are $10 and are available through the 92Y Box Office and Venmo.

This Sunday, December 12th, we’ve got another Arduino/Soldering 101 class — you’ll learn soldering techniques by building your own Freeduino board, then you’ll get to learn some basic programming. This is one of our most popular classes, and it’s always a great time.

Then, the following Saturday, the 18th, is our first Build a MIDI Percussion Instrument class. We’re going to be making computer-controlled noisemakers using solenoids then doing a nice jam session with a sequencer running all the devices. This should be a lot of fun.

Join us Thursday Dec. 16th at 7pm for a screening of BETWEEN THE FOLDS with director Vanessa Gould for an in depth look into the world of origami. Following the screening will be a paper folding craft night (we’ll supply the paper!).

Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science… BETWEEN THE FOLDS chronicles 10 of their stories. PBS

Thursday, December 16th
7pm
NYC Resistor
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