Martin sent us a dino pattern to celebrate our laser. I made a regular size dinosaur, but Kelly made a tiny tinysaur!
Where do you hide all the best object files on the internet? We want to play with them!
The tinysaur has been spotted again! – Link
Don’t have a laser and want to take a Tinysaur home with you? They’re now available on Etsy.
Check out this challenge, it just started yesterday!
A year ago, NYCResistor was conceived by a few folks around a table in the C4 hacker space in Cologne Germany. We needed a hacker space in NYC and we started building the infrastructure for our space by getting the website started, getting a jabber server up, and putting together email lists. A few months later we had 9 people committed to the idea and we incorporated so we could have a collective checking account for paying bills. A few months after that, we moved into our space in Brooklyn.
This hacker space thing is growing. It seems like every day new hacker spaces are popping up on the hackerspaces.org site.
This group is a really special blend of smarts, respect, consideration, and genuine friendship. It feels really special that exactly one year later from conception, we’ve collectively invested in a laser cutter. We still have to pay it off, but we’re doing it together. We also like cake.
Oh yes, that is indeed a freshly cut laser cutter just ready to cut with lasers! Unfortunately, due to shipping and installation delays we can’t actually use it yet. It’s the worst kind of tension, like using the one-present-rule to open half of a two parter on Christmas eve. All we can do is look, drool a little, pour over the manuals again, and dream of all the things that will soon be cut, etched or otherwise mangled with pinpoint laser accuracy.
Here’s some of the ideas bounding about the space, keeping us all up at night (in no particular order):
These all sound pretty good to me. What would you LAZZ?
Seasons don’t fear the laser
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
We can be like they are
Come on hacker
Don’t fear the laser
Hacker take my CAD
Don’t fear the laser
We’ll be able to cut
Don’t fear the laser
Hacker, it’ll be rad
(Adaptation by Phooky with apologies to Blue Läser Cult)
Bill Pauluh's Restored Pilot Hi Fi Top View
While we at NYC Resistor pride ourselves on hacking the latest technology, we also have a passion for understanding that which came before – and the history on which our beloved technology is built. You need to know where you came from, as it were.
My good friend William Pauluh of Hartford, CT is an avid vintage audio restoration hobbyist. Bill takes care to replace worn passives with appropriate replacements, and salvages as much of the original hardware as possible. Then he takes the time to refurbish the exterior and bring the gear to an almost-new look. The audio quality of these vintage pieces must be heard to believe. While the mainstream world is running headlong into compressed, poorly quantized audio – these relics from last century produce mellow, quality tones from primitive analog hardware. With the right patience and expertise, you too can grab an eBay relic and turn it into something new and wondrous for your audio pleasure.
“I’ve attached some photos showing the amp after I replaced capacitors and a few resistors, testing the unit, the amp & speakers in the cabinet, and the final assembly. I didn’t take any photos of the changer during my standard procedure of cleaning/lubing ( I really should, but my hands get so greasy/oily – I’m constantly washing them).
Pilot was a quality manufacturer in the early days (1950’s) of HI FI (along with Marantz, MacIntosh, Fisher, H.H. Scott, and Harmon Kardon).
Garrard was a quality manufacturer of turntables/record changers (based in England). Japanese price cutting in the 1970’s did them in.
This unit has the original Telefunken 12AX7’s (super low noise) and they test out very strong emission – plenty of life left!
I also received the original sales receipt for this Pilot HI FI (model PT-1015). It was purchased from a dealer in Canton, Ohio on 2/18/58 for the price of $169.50 + 5.09 tax for a total of $174.59 (adjusted for inflation in 2008 dollars, it’s around $1000.00).
I read on some link that Buddy Holly’s producer, Norman Petty, purchased 3 of these units back then (I beleive two were with the black cabinet and one in tan). I wonder if one of those went to Buddy Holly?
Interesting trivia to ponder.
Bill”
Check out more photos at Flickr!
(All material posted with permission of William Pauluh and copyright by same)
Make:NYC is a group I help run, and Resistor has been kind of enough to lend us space to do cool stuff at cost to myself and several other organizing individuals. We do ask that people participating in events at Make:NYC please donate whatever they can afford to, or deem to be reasonable. We don’t make money off these events, and while we are glad to take a loss just to see you guys enjoy them… It is always nice to still have enough cash afterwards to eat dinner.
That being said, this weeks event will be a pinwheel power generator challenge. We had a lot of fun with our blimp team face off and we think it’s time for another challenge event. All are welcome, regardless of skill level.
Additionally, if you have a project that you think is awesome, please bring it. We love when people show off the things they’ve made and we’re pretty sure most people showing up will be more than happy to see what you’ve created. So show up Thursday at 6:30 pm and have some fun. Meet some people. Become part of a growing DIY community. Make things.
More information is available at www.makenyc.org
NYCResistor Girls Night
Friday, Aug. 22
7pm-10pm.
$15 if you want to do the project, $0 if you just want to come hang out: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/150173172
Girls Only!
The last girls night was such a blast, this one is back by popular demand! Come hang out with the girls of NYCR, hack some things, paint some nails, talk some gossip…. After 10pm we’ll meet the guys out for drinks nearby.
There is a $15 ticket if you want to do a blinky hardware project that we’ll help you with. If you’ve signed up for the $15 ticket, we need your shoe size – Please email your shoe size to [email protected]
There is a free ticket ($0) if you want to just come hang out, chat and whatnot. You’ll also be able to buy a kit for $15 once you get here if you decide the project is something you want to do, however your shoe size will not be guaranteed.
Sign up at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/150173172
Hope to see you there!
plllleeez!
