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!’
We’re beginning at the beginning with a few beginner’s classes. To begin:
Electronics 101: Lets make electronics fun! This is a class for the completely uninitiated. Repeat: no experience necessary! We’ll cover how to make a circuit, how to use a circuit, and what a circuit actually is. By the end of the three hour session you will be able to make a wiggling blinking wonderblob of your own creation. There are two sessions available: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/102436390 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/105038172
Soldering 101: This is the place to start if you’re interested in making any kind of electronic project that you intend on making permanent, or that you intend on working at all in most cases. We’ll be making it easy for you. This class covers the practice and theory of good soldering, as well as safety. And as a bonus, there will be some super secret hints and tips that you can only get from a seasoned professional! There are three sessions available:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/102417333 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/105034160 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/105035163
Soldering 102: Freeform! This is a more artistic and sculptural application of the skills you will learn in the soldering 101 class. This is great for very cheap and rapid circuit building. It’s also great for wearable and toy circuitry! In this method, you will skip the circuit board completely and make working circuits that are held together by their own mechanical structure. You solder the parts directly to each other. Sounds difficult, but it will be old hat within an hour if you come give it a try! No need to take the 101 class first. There are two sessions available: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/102433381 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/105050208 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/105052214
Hope to see you there!
Last night we held our first ever party to raise funds for rent. The place was full of smiling enthusiastic smiles eagerly drinking the drinks that the barbot was pouring and stirring.
Thanks to everyone who came out to support us! We’re going to be able to pay rent this month!
Big thanks also go out to blip.tv who sponsored the wonderful fluids coming out of the barbot’s liquid emitting fingers (LEF)!
Make sure to check out Bill’s photos and Bre’s photos to check out the awesome party action!
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/03/26/technologies-of-kindness-and-cruelty/ – talks about how the idea that technology is neither good nor bad is fatally flawed. great read.
Tonight, hackers will take over the Tank in Chinatown, NYC!
ASDF; is a laptop quartet comprised of intractable innovators, beat mavens, shirtless composers, tireless experimenters, and robots. Using their QWERTY keyboards as midi triggers for software synthesizers and samplers, they cross-breed your expectations by performing both their own original works as well as unique mashups of works by composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, and not excluding pop artists who won’t be mentioned here… asdf; brings a dance-party attitude to classical minimalism and postmodern experimentalism. In a word, asdf; is Laprock.
The Tank is a venu in NYC that is responsible for many great shows and also awesome hack-fests such as the Blip festival and also the Bent festival. Be sure not to miss this event!
We have a sweet location in Downtown Brooklyn, and we’re having a party to celebrate it.
There will be lots of:
+ smart people
+ blinking things
+ things that go bleep (or bloop)
+ free alcohol (mixers and beer)
Not only that, but we’ll have a DRINK MAKING ROBOT aka BarBot 1000!!
Cover is $20, proceeds go to paying rent. Support your local hackers!
Date: This Saturday, March 29, 2008. 9PM – 4AM
Location:
397 Bridge St
5th Floor, Suite 502
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Learn how to turn virtual 3D models into tangible paper models! This class will give you the basics for taking a pre-existing 3D model and get it ready for becoming a physical object. We will use Blender to learn to “decimate”, which gives 3D models that much sought after lo-tek aesthetic, and from there take our finished virtual forms into Pepakura. This program will “unfold” our mesh into a flat plane complete with tabs and allow us to cut, paste, and fold our way to a physical manifestation of a virtual object!
If you have previous experience with 3D and have a model you would already like to make out of paper, please come with that model. Otherwise there will be a compilation of found 3D models to choose from. Please bring a laptop with you and install Blender and Pepakura prior to arriving. We’ll be printing your models out on Card stock which will be provided but that said, please bring a glue stick, a pair of scissors, an xacto, a ruler and something like cardboard or those cutting mats so that you can make your cuts on without defacing the lovely tables in the classroom.
Sun Apr 27 12:30 – 15:30
$75 plus $5 materials fee for card stock and printing stuff out.
Sign up for this class! – Link
Have you ever wanted to make a Gameboy game? Do you yearn for the days of yore when men were men and graphics code wrote directly to video memory? Have you ever wanted to tell a DMA controller who’s boss? Then c’mon down to my Gameboy programming classes! You’ll learn that, armed only with a laptop, an emulator, and some GNU tools you too can hack the Gameboy with the best of ’em. Two sessions, two hours, too awesome! Get your tix and let’s get hacking!
Sign up! – Link
For this class please bring the following:
– A laptop. (if you really don’t have one, let me know)
– Optional: Gameboy, GBA or DS
– Optional: Lab fee to get Flash cart (email me if interested)
Date – Saturday, April 12, 2008 and Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost – $100 (for both)
Location – NYCResistor (Map)
Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! – Link
Justin Day is a co-founder of video startup blip.tv and pioneering collablog linkfilter.net. Email reverse(“vt.pilb@nitsuj”)
Do you work on projects and want to share them with the world in video? In this class Bre Pettis will cover the basics of using video to document and share your project and get you started shooting, editing, exporting, and publishing your own videos. If you’ve never done any video work or know the basics, but want to learn some tips and tricks, this is the class for you! If you have some experience with video, but want to get tips and tricks for publishing to the internet, this will also be a good class for you! We’ll make a video together in class so you can see the process of making and publishing a video first hand.
Sign up! – Link
For this class please bring the following:
– Something you’ve made for show and tell. Could be anything!
– Optional: Video camera or stills camera that shoots video.
– Optional: Laptop
Date – Sunday, April 27, 2008
Time – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost – $50
Location – NYCResistor (Map)
Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! – Link
Bre Pettis creates new media at Etsy.com and made a weekly video weekly in 2006 and 2007.
