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!
I interviewed I-Wei a few years ago about his awesome steampunk rc creations. He’s got another awesome project up on his site made with some spare RC parts he had laying around. Link
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.
Via Laughing Squid
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.
We have our monthly study group coming up. Bring your projects to discuss with a group of like minded nerdy people, chat about potential blinking, buzzing, whirring things you’d like to build, or come by and talk to us about classes you would like to take (or see us offer).
The next meeting is Wednesday, April 23rd from 7-9 p.m. at the NYCResistor Headquarters. 397 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 — 5th Floor, look for the pack of resistors on the door. Suggested donation is $5 (or more if you’re feelin’ generous) to help pay the electric bill/rent.
Viva La’ Resistors!
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
How can you resist? – 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.
Liquidware has a great touch shield out for the Arduino. It’s a 128×128 OLED display with a resistive touch screen on top. It can hold up to 60 full screen images and only uses pins 3 and 4 on your Arduino. It may seem pricey at just over $100, but it’s worth every penny considering everything that’s packed onto that little shield (they even managed to squeeze in 16MB of on board video ram). You can pick one up here and you can look at the open source code here. If you end up getting one, let us know what you end up building with it… I’m off to buy one now!
