Great interview at Ecolect.net with the founder of SMIT – a sustainable design startup that was started by Teresita Chochran from NYU’s ITP program. SMIT, located in Brooknam, is doing some really interesting work with solar power on homes and other sustainable energy projects. They are also featured at the MOMA design show we wrote about this weekend.
There is a great show going on at the MOMA, NYC right now. It’s called Design and the Elastic Mind and features lots of amazing projects built with Processing, Flash, hardware, solar panels, etc. Here is a link to the show which will be in New York from February 24–May 12, 2008. Also a brief description of some of the projects at the show:
The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices.
Some updates to the Lilypad which are pretty useful. Speaking from experience it’s a nice add-on. Sparkfun just got these versions of Mrs. Lily in and describe them as follows: LilyPad is now even easier to use. LilyPad main boards now ship with a right angle male connector that connectors with the LilyPad USB Link.
Heres the first of many timelapses of my RepRap machine printing. I’ll be working on the quality and lighting. If anyone wants to give me a hand, let me know!
The last hope is a hacker convention in NYC and they just put out their call for participation. A good chunk of it seems to be about hackerspaces, so we’re going to have to show up and represent. It’s July 18th – 20th.
Do you have a lab, factory, warehouse, or other “hacker space”? Do you know there are other hackers in your area who want to build one? The Last HOPE is building the first “hackerspace village” to help bring together existing project spaces and inspire efforts to build them. Show hackers from around the world how you built your space, what you’re doing with it, or what you would do if you had one! Learn about, build, and help grow the global hackerspace movement. E-mail [email protected] with some details about your space or plans for building one! – Link
NYC Resistor Timelapse from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.
The first of many timelapse videos of cool stuff happening at the space. Someone get me better music. =)
I moved all my robots into the space this previous weekend, and it took much less time than I thought. This was great because it left me with 2 more days to code and work on my robot. You see, I’ve been participating in the RepRap open source project to create a self-copying 3D printer for quite a while. I finally found enough time to fix some bugs that were preventing me from printing.
If you’re interested, read more on the RepRap Builders blog entry.
Come and chat with us on our IRC at #nycresistor on freenode! (irc://chat.freenode.net/nycresistor)
[Update, circa 2021: We no longer use freenode. Check the contact page for other means of reaching us.]
We’ve acquired a space and our core group is getting stuff set up in the space. Flickr Set Link
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!