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Time running out on Webduino class!

Just a reminder, there’s about a week left to register for Ben Combee’s Webduino class; it’s next Sunday at 2pm at NYC Resistor.  Here’s what’s happening in the 2+ hour timeslot: 1) you’ll setup Arduino boards with Ethernet shields.  Ben…

Ad-hoc Art Invades Metrotech!

AD-Hoc Art on Willoughby Street

So a group of artists flying under the banner of “Ad-hoc Art” has renovated a row of empty store fronts around the corner from NYC Resistor. These buildings were bought out for a building project that never happened, and with…

Blender Study Group Tonight!

* Because of overwhelming interest on the Microcontroller Study Group Mailing List Hi all, We officially have set aside today from 6pm to 9pm as a Blender study group. All are welcome, whether you have some blender experience or none.…

Hackers get on the Fscking Plane!

First some credits on the video: Alicia Gibbs: Camera Woman Adam Mayer: Sound and Special Effects Engineer Raphael Abrams: Hacker 2 Charles Pax: Hacker 1 Matt Joyce: Himself Special thanks to Nick Farr, and NYCResistor for their continued support www.hackersonaplane.info

Book Review: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Don’t know if anyone likes my reviews yet, but in light of the LCROSS, and LRO NASA projects currently orbiting our celestial ornament, I think this particular work is applicable fodder for my errant scripture. Oh and of course meeting…

Buzz Aldrin visits NYC

Buzz Aldrin visited NYC on Tuesday night. I wandered by because Buzz Aldrin is a fairly awesome guy. Buzz was part of the first manned flight to the moon. He was second to ever touch lunar soil. And he’s an…

Book Review: MythOS

This is the first of possibly many book reviews, or possibly the last of them. MythOS is the fourth installment in the masterful Web Mage book series written by Kelly McCullough. Here at NYCR we are no strangers to this…

Time Lapse Video How-To

Close up of connections from DSLR to Arduino

So during the Thursday craft night we received a request from one of the hackerspace folks for some time lapse videos of the space over a 24 hour period. They are working on a project that will no doubt be…

Foulab Video

From foulab.org: Jack Oats made a mini documentary called “repurpose” about the montreal based foulab. We got a shout out, which is very cool. It’s awesome to know that our talk at hope helped in some small way make this…