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Sunlight, Wind, Micropower and You

We have a pretty neat class coming up this Saturday. It’s a beginners look at powering small devices with very small energy sources. Not only will you be saving the world, but you’ll learn a thing or two about electronics…

Solder cheap!

Once again we are offering our basic soldering class. But for the holidays we’ve dropped the price from $35 to a mere $20. This is insanely cheap. We have gone insane. This Sunday at 2PM:  

Thermodynamics Schmermodynamics

Ready to do the (seemingly) impossible? Of course you are! Take the “Joule Thievery” class here at NYCR. From the class description: “A Joule Thief is a simple electronic circuit that can extract useful work out of a very feeble…

My Cigar Box Lab

I like to hack on the go. So I made a charming little mini lab out of a cigar box and some electronic parts. It’s got a breadboard, a built-in Arduino, a couple of places to put loose parts and…

Hacks and Crafts!

Craft night is now Hacks and Crafts night and it’s back! Working on an autonomous glowing frisbee that tells time in six languages? Making a new dress that will solve all of Humanity’s problems? Knitting something the likes of which…

Classy Classies!

Why not learn something awesome from the friendly nerds at NYCR? This weekend we have three beginner classes: PHP, Printed Circuit Board Etching and Wind Micropower Workshop. PHP is a powerful but amazingly simple language for dynamic generation of web…

S! M! T!

We had a dandy ol’ time at the Surface Mount Soldering class this weekend! We made adorable microcontroller based blinky red hearts. Yes, we’ll do anything to take the percieved threat out of SMT and bring YOU the power of…

Basics this weekend: Classes at NYCR

There are going to be some nice easy intro classes this weekend at NYCR. Basic Soldering, Surface Mount Soldering and Intro to EAGLE. These may sound like difficult things, but we’re here to prove to you that they’re not! Let…

Working small today

I’m making a really tiny board and I thought I’d share a picture of it. It’s a little tiny data gathering widget with an RGB LED on it for feedback. There’s an AVR there too. It’s 1.25″ square. I think…