I’ve had a number of inquiries about the rules of the soldering championship all set to happen at 7:15 at M1-5 this Tuesday. Here’s the details that have been revealed so far. With solder irons blazing, and the power of…
By 1997, The Chaos Computer Club in Berlin was growing rapidly and local groups started popping up all over Germany. In Cologne, the media center of Germany, a CCC group called C4 started. After some time, the folks at C4…
Last night as we were preparing for the party, Eric broke out his camera and took this cool video of my LED Cylinder project. Thanks Eric! More details on the project, including schematics and sourcecode, are available at If…
Online software services generally get a bad rap. Nobody says anything about them unless they break, and when they do everyone throws a fit. I’d like to do the opposite of that today and say that Eventbrite has done something…
Holy crap this is sweet. More info on their website. levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed-run (spoiler!) from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.
When: July 26th 2008. 9PM Where: NYCResistor (397 Bridge Street, 5th floor) What: Party and Art Show! How Much: $20 cover. (open bar) Why: Fundraiser to keep us going! Check out some of the artists we’re featuring! Adam Parrish Andrew…
We’re not always hacking at NYC Resistor: sometimes we play with exothermic reactions that turn liquids into solids! Here is a timelapse of me casting some RepRap Extruder MKII parts to play with. Smooth-on Timelapse from Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken on…
NYCResistor’s Gian Pablo Villamil is working on a really interesting project with panoramic Video in New Orleans. He can’t tell us what the project will do, who is involved, or if space aliens really exist, but the few photos he…
A 3D what you say?! One of the many projects we saw at The Last HOPE was the 3D Wiremap by Albert Hwang. The Wiremap, pictured above, is a surreal 3D display made with fishing wire. Yes, that’s right, I…
John Houck has created this really interesting installation, here’s his description of the guts of the piece: This installation contains 35 motors that are controlled individually with an arduino microcontroller. Processing is used to send commands, via serial communication, to…