Girls Night @ NYCR!

Another brilliant success! Don’t worry ladies, we’ll have another in a few months! Here’s a link to my pictures if you want to see what all the hoopla is about.

I’d write more about it but we were all sworn to secrecy. Sorry boys.

Britney Badger has posted a series of extraordinary images of disassembled household appliances on Flickr.

kitchen knife, (c) Britney Badger

this was my senior thesis project at the hartford art school this past year…i took apart used cooking/cleaning appliances, and arranged their interior parts very systematically on a white sheet of bristol board. my intention was to explore the hidden “brains” of these appliances; allowing us to view these everyday objects from a new perspective.

The entire set is full of eerie and lovely images! Have a look.

I just whipped up this design in inkscape. Inkscape isn’t too hard to use if you’re not measuring things. I just eyeballed everything, which required some tweaking. I outputted a dxf file, uploaded it to my new little archive of public lazzzor files. Then on the lazzzor computor, I imported it into CorelDraw and set the vector settings for cardboard which is 30/50/100, turned on the compressor for the air assist, turned on the filter, screamed “FIRE THE LASER!” and pushed the green button.

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.

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.