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What is NYC Resistor?

NYC Resistor – We Learn, Share, and Make things.

NYC Resistor is a hacker collective with a shared space located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. We meet regularly to share knowledge, hack on projects together, and build community. If you’re interested in joining NYC Resistor, come to some of our public meetings (like the study group listed below) or join the NYC Resistor mailing list.

Founding Members
Bre Pettis – Instigator with video trigger finger
George Shammas – Breaks things to fix them.
Zach Smith – Rapid-prototyper and self-replicater.
Eric Skiff – Gameboy musician and crowd control.
Nick Bilton – Hardware and Frontend/CSS Ninja
Dave Clausen – Micro-hacker and structural engineer.
Raphael Abrams – Artist and keeper of the servos.
Diana Eng – Softronics.
Pat Gallagher – RPRT.

Contributing Members
Justin Day – Surveilance officer.
Phooki – Blinky blinky blinky.
Eric Beug – some guy with a funny mustache
And many more…

Contact us:
contact [at] nycresistor [dot] com

Microcontroller Study Group
Are you interested in learning more about microcontrollers and making
cool projects? The NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group is a great
place to meet others with the same interest in microcontroller projects
and sharing our knowledge! Join our group to get announcements and
information about our next meeting time.

Subscribe to NYCResistor:Microcontrollers mailinglist

http://popularlogistics.com jonathan soroko

Looking forward to hearing from – and posting about – NYC Resistor.

We’ve posted a brief piece:

http://popularlogistics.com/?p=275

But when you’ve got news – let me know.

Jon Soroko
Jonas

I’m a 12 year old kid interested in robotics. I think in collage I will have a duel major in mechatronics and computer science. I am the chief engineer in my school’s (I.S.383) robotics team(skybots).I also am interested in alternative energies to power the world. I also participated the Future City Competition.For my science fair project i did alternative energies and test out a solar panal in series and a earth battery in series to see the different voltages. I live in brooklyn. If you guys have a program for over the summer. If not if i could just come and work on some projects. I really want to learn more please reply.
Jonas412@gmail.com
- Matt
  
  Hey,
  
  I sent this to the email list. Not many folks read the about page comments and it would be lost there.
  
  -Matt
Black

I would reconsider the “over 18yrs” policy. There too many
kids who need a hacker haven. Don’t take that away from them.
For all or for none….
- Anonymous
  
  To protect the deeper pockets of those who you want to participate in a builder/hacker/ maker space you need to become an incorporated non-profit, capable of purchasing liability insurance. The best one can hope for is a when accompanied by an adult policy when certain tools are used by younger members.
  
  So why would you want to attract those with deeper pockets? More often than not, those with deeper pocket are professionals, or business owners. The sort of persons you will want to teach, and hope will donate surplus materials, serviceable tools, and so on. Then there are those in most communities who look for for places to make charitable cash donations to. Show them that your space, is a safe place where kids can learn, and you may get in the queue. Kids can participate in a hacker space if the adults operating it act as responsible adults, who don’t allow old tired rhetoric guide their decisions
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Nick

Hi, I saw a video about you guys on “PRI”
channel (youtube).
I have some “electronics” I want to get rid
of, like some old pentium mmx processors,
and such.
I was wondering if you would have any use
for it and if so, can I just stop by any day.
Is there a particular person I could get in
touch with (phone #?).
Thanks,
Nick.
- http://twitter.com/darnstadium Classified
  
  Sell them to one of the gold reclaiming companies, they ought to be worth something at least
  Ask nicely if you can have the silicon back when they are finished as these make great cufflinks etc.
johnathanx

See you guys at craft night tonight :]
I'm gonna bring some ideas and drawing supplies plus I can give some pointers to aspiring artists if they need help with their drawing skills.

I have some experience with programming and I've read quite a lot about electronics.
I want to make a mobile bot that can paint with a painterly style.
Eventually a team of them :]
My Cerebot 32MX4 Microprocessor is in the mail.
Guest

Anybody here make their living in electronics or is everyone a hobbyist?
Shixiaominlove

hello i am sunny from china,.happy to know this website.

Good luck
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Rebesinger

Can anyone give me a few book binding classes in the evening?
Andrewferri

Hey guys, love the concept. considering attending one of your classes. Just a recommendation, you might want to change the background of your website, black font on a grey background is impossible to read.

Be well
Bill_barnwell

I would like to start something like this in my city. Any tips?
Afriend

Just wondering if “hacker” is a wise choice to use since that word has a pretty negative connotation.
- asteidl
  
  How about we all TAKE BACK the term??
  - Root@Yourbox
    
    How about you already lost the term, lol n00b
    
    There is already a term for what NYC resistor does “Maker”, stop trying to be something you’re not guys…you’re not hackers
    - http://www.facebook.com/pitpat88 Patrick Jones
      
      disagree. We make and hack. Circuit bending is hacking.
- http://www.facebook.com/pitpat88 Patrick Jones
  
  who cares if it has a negative connotation? Do what you do and flip off those who say you shouldn’t.
  - Anonymous
    
    Who cares or, should care about any negative connotation with hacker? Those hackers creating or hope to use communal hacker space that could provide more sources that the majority of hackers can’t afford in their personal shop. I’m for doing what we do, but antagonizing those the ignorant in the general population who can negatively what we want to do, isn’t a good plan, IMO
Daniel rivera

excuse me: ¿do you sell the arduino?
Saira m

Hi!
We are in desperate need of a radio transmitter! We have a Ramsey FM 100–however it needs to have a part sodered with a surface mount weld. We only have a regular sodering iron. HELP! Does anyone know of someone who can fix it for us? Or have a transmitter we can borrow?
Thanks!
- K1QAR
  
  Here at Aesop Engineering, we solder in a SM with a 200W gun and half a Q-tip. First, sharpen a 3 inch length of #10 or similar heavy wire and lash it tightly with steel wire to one of the supports for the soldering gun tip, with the sharpened end 1″ or so beyond the tip. Contact cement the backside of the SM to the cut shaft of the half Q tip. Puddle a tiny drop of solder on the wire, and while the flux is still smoking, hold the SM where it needs to go and voila’. Took me an hour and a half to do one, but it did work.
http://leslieeastman.com Leslieeastman

Hi guys. I need help to fix a power supply issue for two video headsets that will be used in an exhibition opening in 11 days time here in Manhattan. The headsets transmit and receive the signal wirelessly from the opposite pair. I need to ensure a stable battery supply for 1-2 hours for each set for the opening. Is there someone at Resistor who can sort this for me?

Cheers
Leslie
Jonah Freedman

I want to make a airship house out of compartmentalized balloons (for safety – never crash) and float above the great pacific garbage patch and harvest plastic to recycle into making a floating city, where cleaning the ocean and making things with house sized or aircraft carrier sized makerbots can clean the ocean and build an awesome community in the process.
any help?
- Xerkzeez
  
  Wow
Julie

HI, I am in Oxfordshire England. I came to Brooklyn some four years ago in search of Hackers for good to be involved in an amazing global project where the hackers would prove the champions. ( I came back to England and got sick for a few years and now I am “back on the block”The project is necessarily in stealth mode. Therefore, I have to speak to someone in person and I have to know that this person is one with integrity. However, nobody ever got back to me no matter what I tried so I could never come and chat about the project…Not even a phone call! So I wondered if you as a group have any or some understandable policy of not getting back or some secrecy stuff that I need to understand and stops you from answering enquiries?

What do I have to do to talk to you lot?

I promise this is a wonderful opportunity for hackers everywhere and for all the best reasons….JD
- MG
  
  Nobody will get back to you because you sound delusional.
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Konami Codes

I don’t have credit card but I have money. Where can I buy Raspberry Pi in New York City? I can’t find one anywhere.
- jd
  
  Buy a gift card cc with cash.. then buy one at adafruit.
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Anthony

I’m confused… I keep reading articles about how this is such a great community for makers/hackers to get together and bang stuff out but from what I understand this is a members-only club with one fixed craft night a week that’s open to the public for three hours. Is there something more community oriented that one can become a paid member of and keep our own schedules?
David Greenstein

I’m looking for someone to teach an Arduino course in NYC this summer. Contact me at davidg@cooper.edu. Thanks.
David