NYC Resistor

There seems to be a lot of confusion around what The Interactive Show on May 7th actually is. I’m hoping the venerable Venn Diagram can help explain. It’s hackers, it’s a party and it’s interactive art! Drinks and music are included, so make sure to stop by. We’ll be featuring some of the projects you’ll be able to see all next week so stay tuned.

Inspired by Ranjit’s instrument-a-day (Make coverage), I’m writing a new wrist watch face every day for my progamable inPulse watch (more background). The full sources are posted online for others to build on.

Day 1 was a fixed point 3D rendering engine with a rotating Utah Teapot, day 2 was a rolling odometer or aviation altitude ticker display and day 3 is a 24-hour analog clock. This last one still needs some work.

You have been hearing all about HTML5, now come find out what all the fuss is about! Topics covered include video, Offline Web Applications, Microdata, CSS3 effects like Gradients, Transitions and Transforms, and some of the new JavaScript APIs like Geolocation, Drag and Drop, Canvas and Web Storage.

Pre-requisite: The Intro to HTML/CSS class, or a working knowledge of HTML/CSS.

This course is taught by NYC Resistor member Alexis Goldstein, a co-author of the upcoming book HTML5 and CSS3 in the Real World.

Sign up for this class at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1482156169

Saturday May 7th! Come one, Come all!

NYCR will be hosting our super duper Interactive Show.

The theme this year is ANYTHING INTERACTIVE. That’s right, ANYTHING… INTERACTIVE. That includes people, peoples!

Music? yeah, we got it.
Blinking lights? hello? c’mon, you know we got that covered!
Stabby things? why do you think we have an 18+ policy?

So come and be creative, come and grab a drink, come and meet the Resistors. Screw it, it’s a Saturday night and we like to have an excuse for a blow out kind of party so just come!

$10 tickets in advance, $15 tickets at the door

Tickets now on sale

Have you ever purchased a snack, beverage, breadboard, or kit from a Resistor vending machine?

Ever wonder what happens to your lovingly deposited dollars after that?

This.

“Pd as your embedded audio engine” will teach all about embedding libpd as the sound engine for your app, whether its iPhone, Android, Java, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. This workshop provides a broad spectrum of different ways of connecting Pd to other things. Having hardware isn’t a requirement either. The workshop will cover ways of interfacing with Pd from computer to computer. Bring your laptop and devices that you want to install libpd on (Android, iPhone, etc.)

HTML and/or programming knowledge will certainly help. The aim of this workshop is to give a broad spectrum of different ways to interface to Pd. So it will be dipping very slightly into Python, C, Java, Javascript, but this is usually “glue code” and all of the code will be fully provided. You do not need to be proficient in these languages at all, the workshop will also cover methods that also just use Pd with no code at all.

Here is an outline of topics:

* Introduction
* History of Pd as an engine
* Ways to interface with a Pd process
    * Midi & OSC
    * FUDI
    * stdout
    * Python + sockets
    * pdsend/pdreceive
* Parsing patches in three languages
* libpd on Android and iOS
* PdWebKitDroid
* RjDj and ScenePlayer
* WebPd

Purchase a ticket here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1491957485

Workshop: Pd as your embedded audio engine
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
Where: NYCResistor, 87 3rd Ave, Brooklyn

Register Now!

MIT’s Scratch is a visual, block-based programming language that enables everyone, especially young people, to create sophisticated and interactive computer programs without having to know a syntax, text-based language.  Scratch users can create games, visualizations, animations, and music.   In this 3 hour class you will learn how to write Scratch Programs and also how to control them with an Arduino board using S4A (Scratch 4 Arduino).  This class is ideal for teachers and for parents who wish to teach physical computing to students ages 8 and up. No prior programming experience or knowledge of Scratch is necessary.   You must bring a laptop in order to take the class.   Please bring an Arduino, a breadboard, and sensors if you have them.  If you don’t, you may purchase an Arduino and breadboard/sensor kit from us.

Purchase a ticket here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1478336745

For more info, contact Jon Santiago: jsantiago@htink.org

[* Note: NYCR has a policy that all class participants must be aged 18 or older]

This is another class in a series of classes to help Japan recover from the effects of the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11th. All proceeds from this class will be donated to the Japan Society’s earthquake relief fund

These classes fill up, reserve your spot now!

Harness the power of an Eplilog 35 Watt Laser! In this class you’ll learn everything you need to know to make the ideas in your head become a reality with a laser.

In this two hour class, we’ll walk through all the steps from idea to pressing the “go” button on the laser. We’ll cover safety and basic design skills in Inkscape and you’ll learn how to do a burninate test to find out if something is laserable. After the two hours, you’ll have made a plaque for your door. (The extra two hours are for project completion time, but aren’t necessary for learning the tools.)

After learning the basics, each student will create their own design and lasercut it on the laser! A $10 lab fee is included in the ticket price and covers acrylic and time on the laser cutter to cut and etch it.

This class is required for coming in to do work on the laser independantly. If you get inspired, you can come back and laser your objects.

This class is taught by NYC Resistor member Justin Day.