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A year ago Super Awesome Sylvia demoed MarioChron for the Adafruit MonoChron dekstop clock kit. It’s really neat — once per minute Mario hits the box and receives a coin, so his score is equal to the time. Now thanks…

What time is it? It’s time to #MakeAwesomeHappen and learn to program the new Pebble Smart Watch! We’ll be teaching a three hour class on 18 May on how to write custom watch faces that work with the official Pebble…

Raspberry Pi Model B (512 MB with wired Ethernet) boards are now available in the NYC Resistor vending machine! You can take one home during Craft Night on Thursdays or Laser Night on Mondays. Ask a NYCR member for help…

Have you ever wanted to wear an Arduino on your wrist and tell the time with a giant LED matrix? Then you’ll love this three hour class at NYC Resistor that I’ll be teaching on February 9th. During the class…

Thirty years ago in 1983 the first tablet computer was released: the Tandy / RadioShack TRS-80 Model 100. It ran for weeks on four AA batteries and gathered quite a following. Despite the $1099 ($1399 with extra 8-KB of memory)…

I found Matt Joyce’s HDSP211x alphanumeric displays in the LED bin at NYCR and loved the StarTAC style. He had previously written about driving them, but using an Arduino and a shift register on a breadboard was a bit large…

A friend recently acquired a set of PUMA 260 / RP Automation robot arms and asked for some assistance in getting them running again. Unfortunately they had been removed from their previous occupation with a set of wire-cutters. Some wires…

Do you want to be able to control software with interesting things? Do you want to type text in a weird way? Do you often need to type just the W-A-S-D and space keys? Or do you have have ideas…

Perhaps at your hackerspace you have a pile of “badass gauges” and want to do something with them. How about a USB interface, a laser cut enclosure and an RGB status indicator LED? Read on for the vague construction details…