We were on the corner of 8th and 8th on 8/8/08 and it was 8:08:08.

I do all of my hacking at the NYC Resistor hacker space, and I’m proud to announce the most recent fruit of my labors: the Sanguino. This board is an Arduino-compatible board that boasts 4x the memory (64K!) 4x the…

ROBO craft origami, that’s what. Jeff Rutzky came to NYCResistor to show us his amazing ROBO Craft Cutting Plotter. This is normally used by the scrapbooking community to get precision cuts in paper but Jeff has gotten a little more…

We are in desperate need of an old skool teletype machine. These were used to distribute and communicate information across copper wires for a long time. The network they ran on has been long gone, but we need one for…

It would appear that my soldering iron has been purloined by nefarious minds indeed. I’ve been instructed to post an image depicting the daring liberation of a soldering iron as carried out by rats of a certain caliber of awesome.…

Allen Salkin of The New York Times wrote a great piece about the new Nerd Culture in this weeks Sunday paper. Great read and an audio slide show to go with it, narrated by our very own Nick Bilton (that’s…

Query: what the hell is this thing I’ve been lugging around for the past three years? It’s some sort of StrongARM development system.  I think it may be related to the Intel “Brutus” eval boards, but I’m not certain.  The…

A couple of weeks ago Bre posted about digital pinhole photography, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Last night I spent about 30 minutes playing around at NYCR, following Bre’s instructions, and here’s the first image I was…

We came, we saw, we definitely didn’t conquer. The picture above shows Tom Igoe (who won 3rd place! congrats!) triumphantly turning off the tellyvision with his finished device. I have to say, an award should have gone to Matt Joyce…