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On Saturday, November 22nd, you can 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, the open source vector editor and you’ll learn how to do a burninate test to find out if something is laserable.

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 12″ x 12″ of 1/8″ acrylic and time on the laser cutter to cut and etch it. Bring a laptop if you’ve got one and design ideas for your own holiday decorations.

Because this class starts insanely early (10AM) I will also be providing bagels and cream cheese. Give me a heads up if you are a vegan and I’ll make sure to have some jam or tofu cream cheese!

We’ve fleshed out our class schedule through the end of the year, check out some of our awesome upcoming classes!

Software Programming
PHP 001: Getting Started - Nov 8
PHP 101: Variables, Functions, & More - Nov 15
Processing 101: Hello Pixel - Nov 22

Hardware Programming
Arduino Programming 102: If Funky, Get Loopy - Nov 9
Arduino Programming 103: Sensory Overload - Nov 16

Arduino and Processing - Nov 12
Processing + Arduino - Dec 13

Wireless Wearables - Dec 14

General Electronics
Joule Thievery - Nov 15
Electricity .01 - Nov 16

Check out some of our brand-spanking-new classes for July!

PHP for Beginners

Learn the basics of PHP, one of the most popular languages for creating dynamic web pages and web applications. We’ll cover variables, functions, constants, handy tricks to make things easier, and what you’ll need to get your first script up and running. No programming experience required. Taught by Kelly.

Etching Your Own PCBs

Use common materials to etch your own printed circuit boards. The class will cover a few different methods of transferring your design, and use ferric chloride to etch. Bring your own circuit layout if you like (not required), no larger than 3″x5″. Taught by Kelly.

Beginning Csound

Csound is the most powerful computer music language in the world, with a direct lineage to Max Mathews’ original Music-N languages. The focus of this class will be a synthesis of three topics: The Csound language, synthesizer theory, and composing weird alien music.
Together, we will demystify the assembly-like syntax of the Csound language. We will cover the fundamentals of synthesizer theory, including: oscillators, filters, envelopes, amplifiers and modulation. Finally, we’ll tie it all together by composing sounds in the vein of classic Sci-Fi movies. Taught by Jacob.

Zach is also reprising his Arduino series, so if you missed it the first time around here’s your chance to get in on the Arduino action. There are three classes, Arduino 101: Hello World, Arduino Programming: If Funky Get Loopy, and Arduino Programming: Sensory Overload.

As always, you can see the full list of classes here.

So excited by Soldering 101 you can’t wait to get home and make an army of LED Blinkies? But what if you don’t have the necessary tools? New York has a surprisingly limited selection of electronics stores.

But never fear, NYC Resistor now has a school supply store! You can get basics like soldering irons & solder, breadboards resistors, LEDs… and even some fancier stuff like motors and switches.

The school supply store is open after every class at NYCR, just ask your teacher about it once the lesson has wrapped up. An up to date stock/price list is available here, we’ll be adding stuff to it as we go along so if there’s something you need let us know.

Photo by oskay.

Have you ever wanted your electronics projects to make sound? Are you interested in making your own electronic musical instruments? Do you love the sound of lo-fi electronics and 8-bit music? If so, have I got news for you!

I’ll be teaching a class on Arduino Audio in a couple of weeks, June 18th to be exact. The focus is very much on generating sound using the Arduino microcontroller, and a smattering of inexpensive parts.

I’ll be covering:

• Basics of sound generation with a microcontroller
• Making sound by toggling digital pins under software control (and why it’s limited)
• Introduction to R/C (resistor capacitor) oscillator circuits
• Using digipots to control R/C oscillators
• Advanced digipot control: scheduling, polyphony and ADSR envelopes
• Other approaches (Note: I won’t be covering sample playback - my focus will be on synthesis. Lady Ada’s excellent WaveShield for Arduino is a great way to achieve sample playback instead.)

You’ll come out of the two hour class with a working, breadboard-mounted circuit using AD5206 digipots to play back 3 (or 6) voices of modulated square wave sound!

You’ll need to bring your own laptop computer and Arduino board. Please bring your favorite sensors and interface devices - we can work on interfacing them during the class. The class price includes a parts kit, with digipots, stereo jacks, oscillator chip, breadboard, and various assorted components.

You can read about my previous experiments and projects on my Arduino Audio blog pages.

If you’re interested, sign up using this Eventbrite link.

Have you ever wanted to make a Gameboy game? Do you yearn for the days of yore when men were men and graphics code wrote directly to video memory? Have you ever wanted to tell a DMA controller who’s boss? Then c’mon down to my Gameboy programming classes! You’ll learn that, armed only with a laptop, an emulator, and some GNU tools you too can hack the Gameboy with the best of ‘em. Two sessions, two hours, too awesome! Get your tix and let’s get hacking!

Sign up! - Link

For this class please bring the following:
  - A laptop. (if you really don’t have one, let me know)
  - Optional: Gameboy, GBA or DS
  - Optional: Lab fee to get Flash cart (email me if interested)

Date - Saturday, April 12, 2008 and Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time - 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost - $100 (for both)
Location - NYCResistor (Map)

Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! - Link

Justin Day is a co-founder of video startup blip.tv and pioneering collablog linkfilter.net. Email reverse(”vt.pilb@nitsuj”)

Do you work on projects and want to share them with the world in video? In this class Bre Pettis will cover the basics of using video to document and share your project and get you started shooting, editing, exporting, and publishing your own videos. If you’ve never done any video work or know the basics, but want to learn some tips and tricks, this is the class for you! If you have some experience with video, but want to get tips and tricks for publishing to the internet, this will also be a good class for you! We’ll make a video together in class so you can see the process of making and publishing a video first hand.

Sign up! - Link

For this class please bring the following:
- Something you’ve made for show and tell. Could be anything!
- Optional: Video camera or stills camera that shoots video.
- Optional: Laptop

Date - Sunday, April 27, 2008
Time - 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost - $50
Location - NYCResistor (Map)
Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! - Link

Bre Pettis creates new media at Etsy.com and made a weekly video weekly in 2006 and 2007.