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NYC Resistor is now a Hacker Space

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Feb 042008
 

Hacker space signed and paid.Yes!

Today, the core members of the NYC Resistor group put down a good chunk of money on a space in Downtown Brooklyn. It turns out it was the first space that Dave found! – Link

It will be a space for monthly public meetups and much hacking.

It started with George, Peter and I at Chaos Computer Club Cologne. We had just been to the Chaos Communications Camp and were on a tour of hacker spaces in Europe when we decided that NYC needed a place for hackers to meet and share ideas and make things. We sat down and put together a good chunk of infrastructure and now, five months later, we have formed a strong core group and found a space and we start moving in later this month at 397 Bridge Street.

The last month has been quiet on the site while the core group has been busy behind the scenes developing infrastructure, starting an LLC to make it happen legally, and doing lots of planning.

Now that we have a space, we have a lot more hard work ahead of us, but there is no going back now! Stay tuned!

24th Anniversary Macintosh

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Jan 132008
 

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This is a Macintosh 512k which I upgraded to run OS X by replacing the innards with a modern Mac Mini and various supporting components, including a grayscale CRT monitor, an LS-120 floppy disk drive, and a microcontroller-based USB device that interfaces the Mini to the original keyboard and mouse. Why? Mainly because I wanted to experiment with creating a custom USB device. Also I guess I wanted to waste hundreds of dollars and countless hours building a semi-useless computer with a 9 inch black and white screen and no arrow keys.

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Clubhouse Option #2

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Jan 072008
 

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Pat and I checked out another space today. It’s in a loft building in the Northeast corner of DUMBO, near (actually, surrounded by) the big power transfer station. The F train is a few blocks away and the A/C a walkable distance. The rent is $2300/month with a 1 or 2 year lease. The owner listed the size as 1100sf, so it’s probably more like 1000 in real life. The space is divided into 3 windowed rooms (2 are about 9×15, the third is about 12×10) plus a center hall/room (10×10) where we could have lockers or rolling storage units. The views are pretty good. There is a large private bathroom and a second small sink. The layout is not ideal for having big classes but could be good if several people wanted to work independently and had different music tastes, for example.

Overall I’d say that this is a nice space, but probably not the best for our needs. Option #1 has similar space, a more flexible layout, and much better train access. Gowanus has similar train access but more space and other benefits for less money.

More photos after the jump…

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Clubhouse Option #1

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Jan 062008
 

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I looked at an L-shaped loft today on the 5th floor of a commercial building on Bridge St. between Willoughby and Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn. The rent is $2200/month with a 1 year lease and no fee. It is 900 sf (my measurements) with high ceilings and good light. The location is extremely convenient to trains and also happens to be close to a good hardware store, a Radio Shack, and Polytechnic University. The surrounding buildings are mostly commercial and low-rent retail, although this is a gentrifying area and some luxury condos are being built up the street. Rent includes heat 9-5 M-F but nothing else. There is a small bathroom down the hall which is shared with 2 other tenants, but there’s no shower or kitchenette. Since this is the first space we’ve really seen, I can’t say how it stacks up in terms of value, but it certainly seems like a viable option based on our criteria. More photos after the jump…

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The Search For Space

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Jan 062008
 

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We are beginning our search for a space for our club. Here’s our criteria:

+Multiple rooms for breakout sessions, video games, and separate meetings.
+A big space for presentations, general work, with a white wall for projection and a big table.
+Closet for servers.
+Windows for blinkenlight style projects.
+A kitchen
+A shower
+A benevolent landlord
+Tolerant neighbors

For location, we’re open to most places as long as it’s convenient via transit and not creepy. Mostly right now we’re looking in dumbo because a bunch of our core members live in the Park Slope area and it’s super close to Manhattan.

Should we add anything else to the criteria?

Got any leads?

Update: Christian Decker created the dreamy floorplan above!

ITP Winter Show 2007 – Tonight!

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Dec 172007
 

Sorry for the late posting, but this show is tonight.  Its a really rad exhibition of cool tech projects from the ITP students at NYU.  Lots of fun artsy type Arduino projects and other stuff.  I went there last year, and it was a good time and I had lots of cool conversations.  This year should be good as well.

Info:

A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects by the student artists of ITP

This event is free and open to the public – no need to RSVP

 

 

Sunday, December 16 2-6 PM
Monday, December 17 5-9 PM

ITP @ 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2007/ 

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Playing Tetris in an Odd Place

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Dec 112007
 

I like Tetris; who doesn’t? The rules are simple, and it’s a good test of strategy and speed without eye hurting graphics. I’ve played it on a few Nintendo handhelds, my PC, and on Sony’s gaming consoles. The people over at MIKONTALOLIGHTS in Finland developed a platform to play it on a building by using the windows as light pixels and a cell phone as the controller. Check out the video (hosted on CollegeHumor):

It’s similar to a project from Blinkenlights and the CCC based in Germany. Their project also used a mobile phone to control lights (windows) on a building, except they were playing pong and uh, MIKONTALOLIGHTS used color. The Blinkenlights and CCC projects are still cool as they’ve done a lot of animated graphics on the side of a building. Check out their gallery if you haven’t already.

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Ham Radio: Get Your Technician Licence!

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Dec 092007
 

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What if we all had a ham radio license? We could be anywhere in NYC and have an audio backchannel via repeater. If there was a disaster, we could coordinate. We could set up aprs data transfer over radio to connect at a rocking 1200 baud over radio waves! I’ve used handy talkies for basic communication and gps data transfer over aprs during the ahab project and having a ham radio license is super handy.

I think it would be awesome if some folks in the group got their license. Here’s how to do it.

1. Download the powerpoints from the microhams and study! The basic license is called the “technician” license. – Link to study materials

2. Take your test! It appears the easiest place to get your test will be in Brooklyn on March 4th, which gives you lots of time to study.

04-Mar-2008
Sponsor: KINGS COUNTY RA
Time: 7:00 PM (No walk-ins)
Contact: ROBERT V SAN GIULIANO
(718)852-2030
VEC: ARRL/VEC
Location: GUILD FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
260 68TH ST
WWW.KC2RA.COM/VE.HTML
REGISTER BY SUNDAY BEFORE EXAM
BROOKLYN, NY 11220

If you’re feeling ambitious, go to this one!

17-Dec-2007
Sponsor: COLUMBIA UNIV VE TEAM ARC
Time: 6:30 PM (Walk-ins allowed)
Contact: ALAN CROSSWELL
(212)854-3754
Email: [email protected]
VEC: ARRL/VEC
Location: WWW.W2AEE.COLUMBIA.EDU/CUARC-EXAMS.HTML
2960 BROADWAY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
115 HAVEMEYER HALL
NEW YORK, NY 10027

Painting above is by Thomas Hurley III. – Link

gainer.cc – Open Source Hardware From Japan

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Dec 082007
 

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This is by far one of the more interesting things I’ve come across in the past few days; the Gainer PSoC Development Board. It’s open source hardware and it is programmable in Flash, MAX/MSP and Processing. This is from the site:

Gainer is an environment for user interfaces and media installations. By using the Gainer environment, the user can handle sensors and/or actuators with a PC on various programming environments such as Flash, Max/MSP, Processing and so on. The basic concepts are:

  • The user can use it for creative work from prototype stage to final output stage.
  • Using a breadboard allows the user to learn by mistake.
  • The user can build their own I/O module from components.
  • The user can choose a configuration from various configurations (software and hardware).
  • Open source software and hardware.

It’s freshly out the gate and available from SparkFun for the same price as our friend the Arduino. Looks very promising, especially when you factor in the Flash environment. We’ll have to get a couple and try them out.

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