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PCB Design with EAGLE class

Have you ever envied those beautiful green PCBs that all modern electronics have? Do you want to kick up the professionalism in your projects with a real PCB? Would you like to simply learn how to better document your circuits…

Resistor Projects at Art Hack Day

Last weekend was the awesome Art Hack Day hackathon, organized in part by Resistor member David Huerta and Resistor friend Shayna Gentiluomo. Artists from all over were invited to the awesome Pioneer Works space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where they…

Is something metal burning?

On Friday night I experienced what is probably my most spectacular hardware failure yet. I was working on a project for our upcoming Interactive Show, a chandelier with 150 or so individually controllable 5 watt incandescent bulbs: A small piece…

NO CRAFT NIGHT

There will be no Craft Night on July 4th whilst we celebrate our liberation from, and eventual conquest of, the British. Suggested alternatives: • Restore the Fourth NYC • Fireworks • Rainbows

BIG SCARY ROBOT TIME

Some friends at a local university reached out to us recently and offered to let us rescue a robot from a junkyard fate. Not being in the business of turning down free robots, we quickly agreed. Three of us showed…

Arduino 101! This Saturday!

Go here! Sign up! Learn how to Arduino! It’s like the previous Arduino post, except that it’s this coming Saturday instead of having already happened. Unless you read this after Saturday, in which case, boy oh boy, you sure did…