After attending the first Processing study group, I set out to use Processing to generate files for my favorite thing… laser cutting. I needed something to package my Tinysaurs in, and got tired of having to manually draw out the…

Calling all Processing peeps! It’s time for another meeting. This time it’ll be on Wednesday, October 22nd at 7PM @ NYC Resistor HQ. Everyone bring your projects to share. I’ll be showing off the state of the Spooky Box, walking…

Two for two. Stay tuned for another exciting meeting photo next week.

The “SLED” or, Second Life LED (just one L for clarity) is available as an open source, CC’ed design. It is a USB-attached, Arduino-based RGB “lamp” which can be used to indicate various information from the PC, or simply used…

An NYCR Minute from Matt Joyce on Vimeo. Life at a hacklab is pretty crazy, and from time to time you need to poke your head up and smell the roses so to speak.  So here is one minute of…

I had enough with all this making-lemonade-from-lemons chatter and instead just made some light. It’s so freaking easy (provided you remember to grab the wire strippers before you head to the kitchen). Copper and zinc etching plates are probably $7…

I spent the day today hacking on an RS485 circuit for the RepRap Project. It was successful, and pretty fun to boot. I managed to send serial data over a big long wire and had no noise problems. This stuff…

The other day while hacking at the Resistor space, I realized I was getting a crick in my neck sitting hunched over at my laptop. I needed some sort of laptop stand to get the screen up higher, and one…