We had our spring cleaning at NYCR and swept and mopt and chased all the dust bunnies down and killed their processes. Shelves were built and empires extended.

I’m going to be teaching folks how to solder and each student will be provided with a TV-B-Gone kit to solder together.

You’ll learn the basics of using molten metal to make electronics projects come to life. You’ll also learn some basic techniques for removing soldered components. If you’ve always wanted to get into creating electronics, this is the class for you!

Sign up and take the class!
Date: March 29th 4PM-5PM
Cost: $45 (Price includes TV-B-Gone kit)
Location: NYCResistor 397 Bridge St. 5th Floor Brooklyn
Sign up required! LINK

As part of our grand plan to Take Over The World® we’re happy to announce a new and exciting development! A few of us (Adam Mayer, Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken) have formed a new company called MakerBot Industries to do awesome things. What is MakerBot Industries? Well, we make open source hardware. To be more specific, we make robots that make things! If you really wanna get into the nitty gritty, we created a RepRap derivative called CupCake CNC which is a cheap, easy to build 3D printer!

If you’ve been at NYC Resistor lately, you may have seen random prototyped bits laying around. We’ve done pretty much all of our R&D for this machine using our laser cutter and the other various tools we have at the hack space here. I’m personally really happy to see something like this blossom out of our shared space, and I’m looking forward to hacking on this machine much more in the future. If anyone wants to try and design a 3D model, we’d be more than happy to try and print it out for you. We’ll have the machine fired up and printing stuff out for craft night this Thursday, and hopefully all the Thursdays after that as well!

Do you want to learn more? Check out the MakerBot Industries website, or watch the video below.

I made a little hand made servo with a PID feedback loop. It’s really fast and snappy. And adorable!

Anamanaguchi makes some incredible guitar-infused NES based chiptune music, and is streaming their entire new album online along with some amazing 8-bit inspired visuals. You can experience the whole thing fullscreen at dawnmetropolis.com or check it out embedded below. Just click on a video stripe for the song and video.

With strong, catchy melodies, an excellent blend of chiptune and analog sounds, and an unrelentingly optimistic pace, Anamanaguchi definitely ranks among my new favorites artists. This is true musicianship using 8-bit tools.

Check out the videos here:

Or you can get the album from http://normative.com/#/anamanaguchi