It’s party time at the hacker space again! This time bring your costume (no, really — or we’ll put one on you). Spend Halloween with us at NYC Resistor. With drinks, costumes, candy and spooky things aplenty, you can’t go wrong.
When: Friday, October 31st @ 9PM – ???
Where: NYC Resistor HQ, 397 Bridge Street Brooklyn NY 11201
Cover: $10.
The Spooky Box is a simple interface for Processing that consists of 3 knobs and 4 buttons. There are two versions, an Arduino based hardware one which doesn’t exist yet, and a software emulator which I just finished. There’s also an accompanying Processing library that works for both which is ridiculously easy to use.
If you’re looking for a simple, generic UI for your Processing apps, consider trying this out. I’ll be releasing more info as the hardware gets put together.
PS. The skull image in the background there is CC licensed, and can be found here.
We’ll be hosting the first Processing Study Group meeting on Wednesday, September 24th at 7:00PM at NYC Resistor HQ. If you’re interested in Processing, from novice to expert, join the mailing list and come check it out! I’m looking for someone to give a 5-minute ‘Why you should use Processing’ talk at the meeting, if you’re interested please let me know. See you there!
Look at that, it’s a perl obfu etched on to the back of my phone. This was done at 1200 dpi, 40% power and 100% speed. The code takes “[new york city resistor]” and transforms it into “just another perl hacker”. The hardest part was the formatting into ascii art using vi. You may be able to see that I had to pad the code a bit at the end.
Oh yes, that is indeed a freshly cut laser cutter just ready to cut with lasers! Unfortunately, due to shipping and installation delays we can’t actually use it yet. It’s the worst kind of tension, like using the one-present-rule to open half of a two parter on Christmas eve. All we can do is look, drool a little, pour over the manuals again, and dream of all the things that will soon be cut, etched or otherwise mangled with pinpoint laser accuracy.
Here’s some of the ideas bounding about the space, keeping us all up at night (in no particular order):
These all sound pretty good to me. What would you LAZZ?
Here’s my game from the recent art party. One of my co-workers has the all-time high score of 9600. Go download it and use your favorite emulator and break 10000!
Don’t have an emulator? Go download one here. Install that and use it to open the .gba file. Post your scores in the comments!
Last night while we were all enjoying the glory that is Hackers, I hacked together this quick DTMF tone generator for GBA. I’ll post the source soon, you can have the ROM now. It doesn’t sound quite right to me, but I’ll put it to the test today and see if I can drive a payphone with it. I plan to use some telephone tones in one of my upcoming demo routines.
Gameboy class was a blast! Thanks to everyone who attended. I’ve put class notes in a wiki at gbclass-nycr.wikidot.com.
Some things I learned: First, don’t assume anything. There were multiple linux users and I was ill prepared for them. My bad. Second, you can get through a lot of material when you’ve got everything prepared.
Finally, encourage everyone to experiment and design your topics around that concept. Looking forward to the next session, we should really be able to go nuts then.
Have you ever wanted to make a Gameboy game? Do you yearn for the days of yore when men were men and graphics code wrote directly to video memory? Have you ever wanted to tell a DMA controller who’s boss? Then c’mon down to my Gameboy programming classes! You’ll learn that, armed only with a laptop, an emulator, and some GNU tools you too can hack the Gameboy with the best of ’em. Two sessions, two hours, too awesome! Get your tix and let’s get hacking!
Sign up! – Link
For this class please bring the following:
– A laptop. (if you really don’t have one, let me know)
– Optional: Gameboy, GBA or DS
– Optional: Lab fee to get Flash cart (email me if interested)
Date – Saturday, April 12, 2008 and Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost – $100 (for both)
Location – NYCResistor (Map)
Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! – Link
Justin Day is a co-founder of video startup blip.tv and pioneering collablog linkfilter.net. Email reverse(“vt.pilb@nitsuj”)
Some of you may have seen my presentation on evolving virtual machines using genetic algorithms at BarCampNYC3. For those who didn’t, Cobosoda is an open-source 2D rigid physics simulator with a set of genetic algorithm tools. The idea is these little creatures evolve into walking machines. Talking with a close friend and Csound expert Jake Joaquin the next step has become clear, add sound and turn Cobosoda into an art project for the resistor space.
