Maker Faire After Party
There is going be a small Maker Faire after party at NYCResistor. If you have been to one of our craft nights, it will be along those lines. Come bring a project and hack on it. If you don’t…
We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
George
We have a telephone @ the space!
Since we don’t seem to have any copper phone lines in the space, we haven’t got phone server there yet… I decided to use some trickery and get a sip phone up, and the number is 1-212-931-0593.
Playing Tetris in an Odd Place
I like Tetris; who doesn’t? The rules are simple, and it’s a good test of strategy and speed without eye hurting graphics. I’ve played it on a few Nintendo handhelds, my PC, and on Sony’s gaming consoles. The people over…
Japanese Two Legged Fighting Robots
eLinks Makes Links Look Bad
Here is another great console application that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. This text based browser supports up to 256 colors (but due to the limitation of your console, it will most likely be 16 colors.) and displays web…
Speaker as a Microphone
I saw this over at Hack-a-Day and while this is nothing new, its still worth blogging about. This is a great example of how hacking every day things to create new useful things is cool. Expecially if you make something…
HTOP makes TOP look bad
I thought I’d make the first Software post to the blog. And since I am always on the hunt for good console, non-GUI, based applications to make my life easier, I thought I should share one of my findings. For…
We’re in the NEWZ!
Or maybe a very popular blog. But none the less our name is mentioned. ““You have to organize,” says Nick Farr, who set up ‘hackers on a plane’, hauling hackers from DefCon to Germany for a hacker camp. “All it…
Arduino Clones Are COOL!
I just got my shipment of Arduino clones from Modern Devices, that we posted about 3 days ago. After putting 3 together and programing them, I must say that this device is simply perfect for breadboarding. It can be powered…
The Right Tool (kit) For the Job
Its a bit expensive at $3000+sh but this thing seems to have every hand held tool you might need. – Link