The Danger Shield may be the most badass microcontroller accessory, but I think this gets the prize for the prettiest microcontroller project yet. – Link

Bigger MOV media. – Link Thursdays are craft night at NYCR and this week we had all sorts of things going on. People were making the coolest crafts! (More posts about deadly soft crafted robots and knitted scarfs made with…

I interviewed I-Wei a few years ago about his awesome steampunk rc creations. He’s got another awesome project up on his site made with some spare RC parts he had laying around. Link

Yesterday, the awesome Kelly Farrell took some time to demo the knitting machine that Bre’s got at the NYCResistor space. The machine looks incredibly confusing when you first open it up, but Kelly makes it look easy. She even fixes…

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Image courtesy The Pern Project tutorials. Gameboy class was a blast! Thanks to everyone who attended. I’ve put class notes in a wiki at gbclass-nycr.wikidot.com. Some things I learned: First, don’t assume anything. There were multiple linux users and I…

We have our monthly study group coming up. Bring your projects to discuss with a group of like minded nerdy people, chat about potential blinking, buzzing, whirring things you’d like to build, or come by and talk to us about…

Circuit Bent Casio SK 1 from Gijs on Vimeo. Recently Eric Skiff brought in an SK1. These are the best platforms for circuit bending ever. (Well, except for the omnichord!) Check out this video that has a wild turntable like…

How can you resist? – Link

Just a reminder that we have a bunch of great classes coming up in the next couple of months. There’s our Soldering 101, Electronics 102, Electonics – Simple Circuits 101, Gameboy Hacking 101, Rapid Prototyping with Blender, and then there’s…