I recently published notes and project files for my Daft Punk Word Clock on hackaday.io. This is a project I did over New Years to make a word clock-style interface to the song “Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger” by the ubiquitous…
This Sunday, December 12th, we’ve got another Arduino/Soldering 101 class — you’ll learn soldering techniques by building your own Freeduino board, then you’ll get to learn some basic programming. This is one of our most popular classes, and it’s always…
This Sunday, December 5th, why not take a break from holiday shopping to learn how to make microcontrollers do amazing things! This is a repeat of an excellent class from earlier this year called Beyond Arduino: Using Microcontrollers Directly. In…
A few weeks ago, NYC Resistor had quite a showing at the first Worlds Maker Faire in Queens. We showed off a number of projects, including Ranjit’s MIDI Player Piano, Mr. Stabby, Raphael’s Twitchies, and Chris’s Cray-on-a-FPGA. One of the…
If you’ve been playing with the Arduino and want to figure out how to go to the next level, this Sunday’s Beyond Arduino class is for you. Jarek Lupinski is going to be talking about how to breakboard your own…
(if you saw this before, don’t worry — I’ve revived it to the front page to encourage more people to come out!) Us Resistors love electronics and we love music. Often, we find ways to make music using electronics. That’s…
There are still a number of tickets available this Saturday for a new class here at Resistor. It’s called Fun with Touch Sensors, and it features a lot of hands on interaction with the kinds of sensors you find in…
We’ve got a lot of friends here in New York, and we like to mention when they’re doing awesome things. Here’s one of them, a Bioelectricity class run by HTINK over at Bug Labs this Wednesday night. Bug Labs…
We’ve got the first batch of classes at the new NYC Resistor space online. Come learn a few things and check out our new digs on stylish 3rd Avenue near downtown Brooklyn. On Saturday, March 20th, Raphael Abrams does a…
I just discovered a new community site of interest to NYCR blog readers. ChipHacker.com is a Stack Overflow-like site for doing questions and answers on hardware hacking problems. It’s been up now for few weeks and they’ve already got over…