Reconfigurable House 2 at Place@Space at Z33.be from Adam Somlai-Fischer on Vimeo A fascinating project coming out on July 4th-6th at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. The project is called The Scattered House and is best described as: The…
A Little Background Last year I went to the Chaos Communications Camp, a gathering of people who are at the intersection of software, hardware, hacking, and art. Around 2000 people gathered for a week of hardware and software hacking, presentations…
This is an amazing project. It’s an autonomous beat making robot! I daydream of seeing one of these roaming the hallway of NYCR someday! – Link
A few weeks ago Danielle made some homemade marshmallows that were sacrificed to a jacobs ladder with the partial goal of toasting them—as you can see from the video, it pretty much did the trick. Well the edification of some…
So excited by Soldering 101 you can’t wait to get home and make an army of LED Blinkies? But what if you don’t have the necessary tools? New York has a surprisingly limited selection of electronics stores. But never fear,…
I’m in the process of porting the Arduino environment to the atmega644 for a skunkworks project I’m working on. This chip is awesome because it has 4x the flash (64k vs 16k) it has 4x the RAM (4k vs 1k)…
There are going to be some nice easy intro classes this weekend at NYCR. Basic Soldering, Surface Mount Soldering and Intro to EAGLE. These may sound like difficult things, but we’re here to prove to you that they’re not! Let…
In this video: Devon Jones with his modification of “Third Hands ++” from Ryan Straughn Video by: Eric Skiff (behind the camera / CC-BY music).
Geeky Girls Unite! Tonight 7-10pm Girls Only geek night: Come chat about your projects, how you got to where you are, gossip about which robot is the cutest (this one has my vote), bring something to show/work on, or just…
Here’s a fun little video of me soldering a new RepRap kit, the Opto Isolator v1.0 Opto Isolator v1.0 Timelapse from Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken on Vimeo.