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Apr 132008
 

NYCResistor Meeting

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!

Apr 082008
 

NYCResistor Infrastructure Meeting

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.

Apr 082008
 

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!

Arduino Touch Shield

Apr 052008
 

One of my side projects I’ve been working on lately is a fully self-contained Arduino shield. I originally started making it for the arduino classes i’m teaching. Today, I finished up the design and did a sanity-check prototype by printing out the board on paper, putting it on foam, and sticking the major components into it.

Danger Shield v1.0 (Mockup) - 1

The board itself is a whole bunch of cool inputs and outputs. It has 3 sliders (with integrated LED’s… each connected to PWM). It has a temperature sensor, a light sensor, and a piezo wired as a knock sensor. It has 3 buttons, 2 PWM leds, a 7 segment led hooked up via a shift register, and a piezo buzzer. I set out to max out every Arduino pin, and I did it! I ordered the boards today, and I’m getting super psyched about it. Not only will this be a fun board to learn on, but I’m excited about using it to do all sorts of fun stuff. The possibilities are really off the charts.

The manufacturer now has my design. More pix on flickr.

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Apr 052008
 

Our first class! We had a great time over here at NYCR doing some soldering classes. Everybody walked out of here with a beautiful LED blinky! It was a total success. Thanks to all who attended! If you’re interested in coming in for a class, check out the classes here. See you soon!

Apr 042008
 

robot soccer

This weekend will be New York’s first Robotics Competition. It’s going to be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center @ 655 W. 34th St., New York, NY 10001 and will including a bunch of funny looking robots running around kicking soccer balls at each other.

Working in teams, students have just six weeks to create their robot. They get the opportunity to work with programmable radio controls, pneumatics, motors, electrical circuits, mechanics, machining, web design, computer animation, computer assisted design, and other technologies – just like professional engineers and technologists do. Following the six-week design and build phase, teams enter local and regional competitions.

Apr 032008
 

Dan's laser etched Magritte powerbook

NYCResistor wants to buy a Laser Etching Machine. We’re trying to figure out financially how we’d pay for it, and here’s the questions: If we get one, what would you use it for? Maybe you’d want to laser etch your iPhone, or a PCB, or maybe even your thumbs? Let us know in the comments.

Also, any suggestions of places in the the Tri-State area that we could get a decent etcher (used, discounted, leased etc.) please let us know.

How cool would be to say ‘Fire the Las-or!’