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Announcing Luna Lazzzor Mondays

Let’s get lazzzoring every Monday night! Come get some work on your projects on this laser focused* open hack night. The laser will be available on a first-ready first-served single job basis. If you haven’t been trained on the laser…

Another successful lazzzor class

I really enjoyed Saturday’s “Fire The Lazzzor!” class and wanted to share a couple of pictures sent in by clever students. Herb made a tiny pizza box on 120lb kraft paper. What normally took 15 minutes by expert hands completed…

Halfway to Halloween Party

May 15th is approximately half-way to Halloween and we just can’t wait any longer. Put on your best costume and come on out for our ridiculously early Halloween party! May 15th 9p-??? NYCR 87 3rd Ave 4th floor No door…

March Madness 9 – Paint

Here’s a simple paint program I made using canvas. It’s a pretty blatent ripoff of another one that a friend showed me today, but unfortunately I don’t have the URL handy. (Sorry, I’ll update in the morning!) The framework makes…

March Madness 8 – Tumblin’ Tumblr Tumbleweeds

For today’s March Madness program I made a visualization of Tumblr quotes from a few friends I follow. I turn the text into a tumbleweed and let it ramble on by across the screen. It could definitely use some optimization…

March Madness 7 – Background gradient generator

For today’s March Madness program I wanted to try to do something useful with the canvas tag. I decided it would be nice to be able to programmatically generate a background gradient for a web page based on the time…

March Madness 5 – Video Scrolly

A quick and simple scroller for today’s entry. The letters NYCR scroll by to reveal a video playing behind it. Because of the cross-site scripting security restrictions imposed on the canvas tag I couldn’t make this as interesting as I…

March Madness 3.2: Analog Clock

Analogclock

Here’s a quick analog clock using the HTML5 canvas tag. Oh canvas tag, how I love thee. Click “Read more” for the source. The formatting is a little wonky because I adjusted to fit in the blog. Oh and you…