Nick Bilton

This article is free to redistribute under Creative Commons. By Nick Bilton Earlier this year I was invited with a good friend and colleague to speak at somewhat secret conference in Toronto—we didn’t know it was hush-hush at the time.…

Dylan Tweney wrote a fantastic article on Wired.com about hackerspaces in the US. NYCResistor was profiled along with Hack DC and Noisebridge. A fun and interesting read… While many movements begin in obscurity, hackers are unanimous about the birth of…

All hail Make Blog! Collin Cunningham wrote a fantastic post about all the places on the inernets to buy all different sizes, shapes and colors of Arduinos, Arduino related boards, Arduino related books, and Arduino kits. Our very own NYCR’s…

Processing 1.0 launched today! Congrats to Casey Reas, Ben Fry and everyone else who has been instrumental on the project. You can get the new, fancy, 1.0 version at I was lucky enough to meet with Casey on my…

As Eric Beug (pictured above with me) put it so well, ‘XBee Sunday. XBee is the new football.’ NYCR was full of lots of hackery today including Bre’s laazzzzooorrr class, Zach’s ‘peristaltic pump’ and Phooky’s ‘crawling deathbot’.

So the ‘Human-Robot Interaction’ project based out of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in England has created ‘Jules’, an androgynous robot [head] that can copy human facial expressions, including eyes, lips and more. The facial expressions of a ‘real’ human are…