We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
MakeNYC held it’s 10th meeting at NYC Resistor last evening. Phil Torrone the editor of Make Magazine stopped by and dropped off some freebies. We held a timer challenge in which 4 teams worked tirelessly throughout the night to construct…
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Toynbee ideas. And some of you are no doubt aware that their use in Kubrik’s 2001 are resurrecting the dead on planet Jupiter. But for the uninitiated, I figure an explanation of…
One cold day in november members of NYC Resistor received a nondescript box… There were no markings on the box that could identify any specific member at NYC Resistor to which it had been sent. They opened it to find…
I think of apple. I am reminded of the age of Woz, and how he literally ushered in the age of the PC with a near divine mastery of hardware design. Then I am reminded of Steve Jobs and how…
Nicolle from Pumping Station One, a hacker space initiative in Chicago visited NYC Resistor today. Pumping Station One does not have a home yet, but has begun organizing their paperwork for a 501c3 application. The project has been going since…
This is an image of actual Cray Super Computer Memory… each of those little rings, is one bit of visible read once memory. Man has electrical engineering come a long way since then… The opportunity to photograph this epic piece…
Last year I made my nearly annual journey to Cleveland Ohio for one of my personal favorite conferences, Notacon. Notacon has never been a purely “tech” conference, but instead focuses on the areas where tech meets art and creativity. As…
fry an LED with them… So a month or so ago I caught a solid minute of random moments at NYCR on a sunday evening…. THIS is a solid 7 minutes electronics are destroyed. Witty comments are made. And the…
So a month ago or so was my older brother’s wedding. I needed to get him a card, but I always felt that the canned card approach to events like weddings especially for direct family members was a bit… too…
Make:NYC Meeting 9 happened yesterday at NYCR. I’m still compiling a more robust breakdown of the event, but I thought I’d toss out a sneak peak… And as always… big thanks to all the resistors for putting up with us!