Very clever video featuring a large handful of famous YouTubers (not imitation actors). Pretty smart stuff.

Arduino Programming 103: Sensory Overload

Saturday, 1pm-3pm

During this class, we will explore the many different ways of gathering information from the outside world. The NYC Resistor Learner shield has many interesting sensors including a light sensor, a temperature sensor, a knock sensor, and some sliders. We will be examining each of these sensors and showing you how to use them in your programs.

An Arduino and Learner Shield will be provided to each student, but please bring a laptop if possible.

Instructor: Zach Smith

Soldering 101: Basics

Saturday, 4pm-5pm

1 hour, all parts will be provided.

Using a simple electronics kit the student learns the basics of through hole soldering to a circuit board. At the end of the hour, the student will take home an LED blinky of their own construction!

Taught by Jon Santiago

We have tons more classes coming up as well!

Dino Dai Zovi’s Birthday cake at the NYCResistor Party

Encrypted with Dino’s PGP key to say Happy Birthday

Play or Die

So here’s a quick preview of the LED Array Jacket. I’m pretty excited it’s managed to light. Currently I am redesigning the driver circuit and boarduino to work with non-solid core wiring and to be more elegant and clean. But I thought this might wet your appetites.

There are two new classes here at NYCR!

Wind Micropower Workshop

Harness the wind for under $10! Using the most basic components, you too can gather electricity from a light breze. We’ll cover some of the basic ideas involved in generating power from wind, and we’ll each build a simple generator that will power a small light or charge a battery. Let’s start saving the world!

1 1/2 hours

Ages 10 and up welcome

Taught by Raphael Abrams. June 7th

Graceful Motor Control

It is not that hard to achieve graceful motion with a big motor. It just takes a small handful of common electronic components and a slightly larger handful of electronic tricks. We’ll learn about H-bridges, pulse width speed modulation, large transistors, servo feedback loops, electric braking, analog to digital converters, and more. Some understanding of the Arduino microcontroller is helpful, but not required. (If possible, please bring a laptop and an Arduino.)

Taught by Raphael Abram. June 8th

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/117134352

We hope you can come out and get some learnin’!