Under City Hall lies an abandoned subway stop and while it would be really difficult to heat in the winter, wouldn’t it be awesome to have a hacker space there?- Link Note: If you ride the 6 train and fall…

Laser Cutting Parts from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo. A couple nights ago, Bre and I went to go get some parts lasercut. Here is Phil explaining how it works. Thank you so much Phil!

Peter Blasser is a circuit bender who publishes his circuits by drawing them out. This makes a lot of sense and makes it easy to see how everything is laid out. Print them out and put them next to your…

I’m not really sure what this competition is all about, but it has something to do with LED’s and something to do with design. There are some really exciting concepts and artist descriptions on the site also. Interesting stuff. More…

My buddy and RepRap co-conspirator, Vik Olliver has been having a string of successes lately. The most recent success was in printing a tiny wine glass. It may seem trivial, but it demonstrates some very important features of his machine:…

Circuit bending is where you take old toys and turn them into musical instruments. Casperelectronics is one of my favorite circuit bending blogs and Pete Edwards, the author, just posted about a step sequencer he built out of a 555…

Most kids wanted to be something like a fireman or an astronaut when they were growing up. Me? I wanted to write music for videogames. Some of my favorite pieces of music came from my Commodore64 and Nintendo, classics that…

We now have a subversion repository setup.  Check it out here:  svn.nycresistor.com  It’s publically readable, and you need a username to commit changes.  Since it’s publically readable, you’ll probably only want to put things in here that are GPL, CC,…

Ok, this thing even has Arduino Clone stamped right on it and it’s $15. Yep, FIFTEEN BUCKS! True, it doesn’t have a usb connection on it but if you’ve got the tx/rx doohicky then you don’t need that anyway, right?…