FoxNY shows that we are helpful hackers, not harmful hackers 🙂
NYC Resistor on Good Morning New York
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Nov 092009
Nov 072009
Take our vacuform machine class Nov. 16th and create your own machine to make custom shapes like the one above, modelled around the Conga 5090 system.
If you’ve ever wanted to create a quick one sided mold, a nice case for your latest electronics project, a handle for that raygun, or a body for that RC robot that’s lurking around the garage you’ve probably wanted to use the magical powers of vacuum forming. In this class we’ll put together our own vacuum forming jigs using laser cut parts (provided with the class) and learn to use them. We’ll use some heat guns and the assistance of a shop vac to get everything working and we’ll all come back with awesome little plastic replicas that will impress even the most discerning IRC channel. Everyone will take back their own vacuum forming jig but will need a vacuum cleaner and a heat gun to operate it at home.
Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Class + Material fee is $120 (which is very cheap for a vacuform machine)
Sign up here
Nov 052009
Crazy Rave Lights in Williamsburg
We’re always happy when another hackerspace kicks off. AlphaOneLabs got together in July over on Maspeth in Brooklyn. They’ve been running Solder Sundays, much to the benefit of young and old. Like our friends to the South at HacDC, AlphaOneLabs applies the radical inclusion design pattern. Mostly though, we like them for statements like: “[B]ring lasers! We have laser controlled lights!”
Check them out at their Grand Opening party on Friday night.
It’s hard to believe our other neighbors to the (slightly more) North at hacklab.to have been modifying toilets to twitter for over a year now.
Nov 022009
MakerBot grew out of the friendships forged at NYCResistor and is going to be in the best art show of the 21st century. It’s called Bits ‘N Pieces and it’ll be at Material Connexion starting on Thursday.
DATES: November 4 – December 4, 2009
HOURS: Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm
LOCATION: Material ConneXion 60 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010 T. 212-842-2050
NEAREST SUBWAYS: #6 at 28th and Park / NRW at 28th and Broadway.
Bits ‘n Pieces is a traveling exhibition of work by international designers, architects, computer scientists, and material and technology researchers. It will showcase projects still in their development stage, as well as furniture, architecture, jewelry, graphic design and products that anticipate the next phase of the digital revolution, focusing on how society is imbued with, shaped by and shapes technology. This new era will be marked by increased awareness about, and accessibility of, continuously advancing technologies and materials and the changes that we will be making in our lives through them will be not just formal but structural, not merely aesthetic but substantive, changing how we actually think about, design and build our objects and space. What will life look like based on changes that are sometimes visible to the public and sometimes invisible?
Read on for the conceptual essay. (It’s good) Continue reading »
Jelly at NYCResistor
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Oct 302009
Today NYCResistor will be a temporary co-working space. It’s a thing called Jelly and it’s fun. Sign up and swing by and pull up a chair and get some work done on your laptop from 9-5. At 2pm there will be a talk about hackable hardware and platforms and if you don’t make it over for the talk, you can tune in online to listen to the talks and join the conversation.
Oct 272009
Still Working on your Halloween costume? Come to “Zombie 101” Wednesday night at 7 PM and learn cool make-up tips and tricks!
Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doviende/
1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse.
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Oct 262009
So at the end of last year and into the beginning of 2009, the folks at the extreme craft blog were soliciting for submissions for their 1000 ideas for creative reuse book. And since creative reuse is the very essence of hacking, I decided to submit my ( at the time new ) mp3 grenade project. It got into the book! So my idea is idea number 579 of 1000 fairly amazing ideas. Review and more after the click!
Oct 262009
Bill, Alicia, Hilary, Diana and the Cake
NYC Resistor made a huge showing at Yahoo Open Hack Day NYC this year. Team Makerbot showed up with the New York Toast, featuring their latest “Frostruder” prototype, an amazing attachment which turns the Makerbot 3D printer into a confectioner’s dream. And in the spirit of edible technology, Alicia, Bill, Diana and Hilary gathered to create the “Delicious Cake.” The cake was, in fact, NOT a lie.
The Cake represents the sentiment – positive, neutral or negative – of a keyword as represented on Delicious.com, Yahoo’s social bookmarking service. The cake was made to look like the Delicious.com logo, and LED “faces” were used to indicate the sentiment. Hilary wrote the code for the sentiment analysis, Bill wrote the code that drove the Arduino controller, Diana soldered the LED faces, and Alicia assembled the electronics and decorated the cake itself.
You can see more of the cake at Alicia’s Flickr Stream or at Bill’s. We were also featured on CNN: http://bit.ly/ddNm3
Find out more at Diana and Hilary’s blogs:
Diana’s blog: http://fashionnerd.com/2009/10/yahoo-open-hackday-nyc/
Hilary’s blog: http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/yahoo-openhacknyc-the-del-icio-us-cake/
Taking Back the Streets (Visually)
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Oct 252009
A couple of us helped beautify New York City today. We were part of an effort organized by the Public Ad Campaign to create over 100 installations of art in place of illegal billboards that blight our pedestrian commute.
Acres of Hacking: Noisebridge!
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Oct 242009
Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco, is awesome. It’s a very open and wonderfully chaotic space. I have been co-hacking from here while in town and it’s got a fantastic vibe. This picture shows about half of the space. Behind me are two classrooms, a kitchen, a server room, bathroom and more rooms being built out. They have one rule: “be excellent to each other.”
I took a bunch of pictures. Check them all out!