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 number sets later.)

Danielle arrived with homemade marshmallows and it took about 15 seconds to whip out the Jacob’s Ladder and roast them with 15,000 volts of electricity. They tasted good that way too!

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 a problem on the fly in this video.

Want to see the knitting machine in action? Maybe if we ask really nicely Kelly will break it out again for a demo at our public “Microcontroller Study Group” meeting next Wednesday!

In this video: Kelly Farrell, Eric Skiff (behind the camera / CC-BY music), Raphael Abrams (“this machine is my grandma!”), George Shammas, and Bre‘s knitting machine.

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 was ill prepared for them. My bad. Second, you can get through a lot of material when you’ve got everything prepared.

Finally, encourage everyone to experiment and design your topics around that concept. Looking forward to the next session, we should really be able to go nuts then.

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 sequencer thingy. – 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 our Arduino Series that will teach you programming for Arduino. Zach (pictured above) will be teaching Arduino 101 – Hello World, Arduino 102 – if Funky, get Loopy, and Arduino 103 – Sensory Overload. These classes are designed to be really inexpensive so sign up now before they are all sold out.

And don’t be intimidated if you’ve never touched an LED before, or don’t even know what one is… that’s what these classes are for! Also, if you have any questions about which classes you should take or whether you’re ready for the 102 classes, just shoot us an email and we’ll be happy to help.