In this hands-on workshop, we’ll transform used bike chains into kinetic jewelry and small wearable objects with movement, memory, and a little bit of steel magic.

Participants will learn how to clean, break down, and repurpose bike chain into pieces that can become a necklace, bracelet, keychain, gift, or small talisman. We’ll also explore heat painting steel, using flame and temperature to bring out shifting blues, golds, purples, and other iridescent tones in the metal.

Kinetic jewelry offers a small source of movement, texture, and tactile stimulation, something to fidget with, focus on, or carry as a grounding object. Your finished piece might commemorate the bike you crossed the country with, hold the story of a beloved ride, or become a gift for someone who would rather skip the subway and bomb down Broadway on two wheels instead.

Participants are welcome to bring their own retired bike chain, especially one with personal meaning, or use materials provided in class. No prior jewelry-making or bike repair experience needed, just curiosity, hands, and a willingness to play with metal, motion, and memory.

Your instructor:

Adela Wagner is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and long-distance cyclist whose work often lives at the intersection of movement, memory, and care. Their cycling life began in NYC on a rusted Craigslist bike and eventually carried them across six states on a solo ride from Pennsylvania to Georgia, through Czech mountain roads, and into mutual aid rides, street activism, and bike community. For Adela, the bicycle is both a practical tool and a vessel for story: a way to move through fear, build connection, carry grief, and find freedom in the flow state.

This is a masks optional workshop

Harness the power of an Epilog 60 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 three hour class, you will learn:

• How to set up a file for cutting on the laser cutter in Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.
• Laser cutter safety including materials testing.
• Laser cutter operation including configuration, cuts and raster etching in common materials like wood, acrylic, cardboard and others.

At the end of class, you will go home with:

• One laser cut project, we will start with the class default and if there’s extra time, a simple one of your own design (see below for details)
• Resistor Laser Certification, enabling you to use our laser on Craft Nights.

Please bring the following to class:

A laptop with either Inkscape (free: download here: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/) or Adobe Illustrator installed.

A USB jump drive

The following items are optional if you’d like to try cutting a simple custom design. If your file ends up being too complicated, we may have you do the class default project first, just to learn the laser in the time allotted – but we’ll definitely help you with your more complex cut at a free Craft Night in future!

• An SVG vector file of a simple shape you’d like to cut for your first cut.
• A piece of 1/8 inch or thinner wood, acrylic or cardboard you’d like to cut. If you can’t bring your own material, small pieces will be made available, or larger pieces for purchase on site.

Please be on time for the start of class! If you’re late you will miss your slot.

This class will be taught by NYC Resistor member Olivia. As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/.

Please note that refunds must be requested 72 hours in advance. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Harness the power of an Epilog 60 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 three hour class, you will learn:

• How to set up a file for cutting on the laser cutter in Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.
• Laser cutter safety including materials testing.
• Laser cutter operation including configuration, cuts and raster etching in common materials like wood, acrylic, cardboard and others.

At the end of class, you will go home with:

• One laser cut project, either the class default or a simple one of your own design (see below for details)
• Resistor Laser Certification, enabling you to use our laser on Craft Nights.

Please bring the following to class:

A laptop with either Inkscape (free: download here: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/) or Adobe Illustrator installed.

A USB jump drive

The following items are optional if you’d like to try cutting a simple custom design. If your file ends up being too complicated, we may have you do the class default project first, just to learn the laser in the time allotted – but we’ll definitely help you with your more complex cut at a free Craft Night in future!

• An SVG vector file of a simple shape you’d like to cut for your first cut.
• A piece of 1/8 inch or thinner wood, acrylic or cardboard you’d like to cut. If you can’t bring your own material, small pieces will be made available, or larger pieces for purchase on site.

Please be on time for the start of class! If you’re late you will miss your slot.

This class will be taught by NYC Resistor member Woody. As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/.

Please note that refunds must be requested 72 hours in advance. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show returns for its 16th iteration. Our annual party and fundraiser invites hackers from around the region to show off their cool interactive projects with free beats and beers provided. Tickets $17.85 ($15 plus fees) in advance, $20 at the door.

This year’s theme is Machine Yearning! Grab your tickets now! See previews of participating artists on the NYC Resistor blog and Instagram.

We are a proactively inclusive space, and prioritize creating opportunities for the whole community to engage with our events, across all identities of race, creed, ethnicity, age, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical appearance, and ability; please read our Code of Conduct to familiarize yourself with our community’s values before attending. We are also an 18+ space, and accessibility information can be found here.

Surface mount components! They’re hip, they’re tiny, and you’ve probably swallowed a couple accidentally by now. If you’re still using clunky, chunky through-hole components that you found in your grandparents’ butter cookie tin it’s time to get with the times and learn how to solder the teeny-weeny components of the future! (And frankly, they’re not making the old ones anymore.)

This time around we’ll be assembling our own pocket-sized MP3 player, based on Raphael Abrams’ classic Daisy MP3 design. We’ll learn solder paste stenciling, reflow soldering, hand soldering, and rework and repair techniques– stuff you can actually use. Bring some wired headphones with you and you can walk out the door listening to jams on a player you built yourself!

No prior soldering or electronics experience is required for this class. You can do it!

To bring:

Ideally, bring a microSD card (smaller capacity cards, less than 512GB, are preferred) and wired headphones, but if you don’t have either we’ll work something out.

Your instructor:

Adam Mayer is a longtime NYCR member who burnt his finger on a soldering iron when he was ten and has never forgiven it. He has done questionable things with PCBs and hot plates. (Don’t solder with hot plates.)

There are 2 spots reserved for people who cannot access the class at the full price, so please make use of one of these $35 need-based tickets if that is your situation. Checkout Code: SMT-Access

The timing of this class is geared towards full-time parents/caregivers with kids in school, freelancers, and folks who work nights and weekends. This course will be offered again in the future at an evening or weekend time.

This is a masks optional workshop.

As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/. Please note that refunds must be requested 24 hours in advance. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].