We were on the corner of 8th and 8th on 8/8/08 and it was 8:08:08.
Day of 8
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Aug 092008
Announcing: Sanguino v1.0
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Aug 082008
I do all of my hacking at the NYC Resistor hacker space, and I’m proud to announce the most recent fruit of my labors: the Sanguino. This board is an Arduino-compatible board that boasts 4x the memory (64K!) 4x the RAM (4K!) and 12 more pins (32 IO pins!) Its all open source and you can get one from the RepRap Research Foundation for only $25. Sweet!
Oh, and I managed to get this footage last night. Check it out.
Sanguino: Arduino’s Big Brother from Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken on Vimeo.
What’s better than ROBO craft die cuts?
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Aug 072008
ROBO craft origami, that’s what. Jeff Rutzky came to NYCResistor to show us his amazing ROBO Craft Cutting Plotter. This is normally used by the scrapbooking community to get precision cuts in paper but Jeff has gotten a little more creative. He uses origami designs and has programmed his ROBO to score mountain folds and valley folds into various materials for packaging designs. Watch the video where is machine cuts and scores the pattern for a business card holder, which he’s holding in the image above! As a designer and published author his portfolio is pretty impressive. We’re always excited when technology and art come together in creative forms. Thanks for showing us your stuff Jeff!
Help! NYCResistor Needs a Teletype!
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Aug 052008
We are in desperate need of an old skool teletype machine. These were used to distribute and communicate information across copper wires for a long time. The network they ran on has been long gone, but we need one for a project. If you can donate it to us, we’ll hold you in our heart forever. If you can sell it to us, we’ll pay you a reasonable amount! Ham radio folks sometimes have these. If you know anyone who’s got one gathering dust, we would like to bring it back to life!
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Aug 052008
A Rat’s Ransom
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Aug 032008
the true secret of nimh
It would appear that my soldering iron has been purloined by nefarious minds indeed. I’ve been instructed to post an image depicting the daring liberation of a soldering iron as carried out by rats of a certain caliber of awesome. Rather than invest time in actual photoshop goodness I’ve instead gimped the rats of nimh. Hopefully those who have my iron will return it safely.
NYCResistor in the NYTimes
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Aug 022008
Allen Salkin of The New York Times wrote a great piece about the new Nerd Culture in this weeks Sunday paper. Great read and an audio slide show to go with it, narrated by our very own Nick Bilton (that’s me). Photo below of Bre Pettis, Phil Torrone and Limor at the Ignite NYC Soldering contest.
Help me ID this device!
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Aug 012008
Query: what the hell is this thing I’ve been lugging around for the past three years?
It’s some sort of StrongARM development system. I think it may be related to the Intel “Brutus” eval boards, but I’m not certain. The daughterboard is labelled “SA1110 daughter card”; there’s nothing useful on the larger board. There’s a fairly anonymous StrongARM chip in the ZIF socket. It feels like some sort of demo unit, given how it’s all gussied up and under acrylic.
What’s on the big board?
- one USB client port
- three USB host ports
- two classic RS232 ports
- nine general-purpose indicator LEDs
- eight general-purpose switches
- two four-bit rotary switches
- eight seven-segment w/ decimal LED displays
- six audio jacks
- a CF slot
- a PCMCIA slot
- and innumerable spare headers, LEDs, switches, etc.
Intel sold off all its StrongARM/PXA properties years ago, and scrubbed pretty much anything useful from its website. Archive.org hasn’t been too helpful. Anyone have any leads?
Pinhole wizards
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Jul 312008
A couple of weeks ago Bre posted about digital pinhole photography, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Last night I spent about 30 minutes playing around at NYCR, following Bre’s instructions, and here’s the first image I was happy with:
Today I spent an hour or so in the garden fooling around, and I’m already thrilled.
There are tons of resources all over the web (just for starters, here’s a Digital Pinhole Photography discussion group on Flickr), but I encourage you to make a lens and start shooting before you read a lot — it’s easy to get started, and you don’t want to waste valuable daylight shooting hours inside on the web.
Thanks, Bre!
And the winner is…
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Jul 302008
We came, we saw, we definitely didn’t conquer. The picture above shows Tom Igoe (who won 3rd place! congrats!) triumphantly turning off the tellyvision with his finished device. I have to say, an award should have gone to Matt Joyce for looking the coolest with his bad-ass bandanna, and an award to me for the most amount of trash talking! Check out the great video below of the event.
Great, great job Bre Pettis and Brady Forrest for putting on an amazing show last night at Ignite! And congratulations to the winners (AND losers!).
photo by luis.net – video by ieee.