We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
Next Saturday (27 Jan) NYC Resistor’s knitting guild, PKPTransistor, will be having our first annual Midwinter Yarn Swap. Cast off some of your old yarns, hook up with some new yarns, and get cozy with your fellow yarn hoarders! Bring…
We asked Adelle and Matt about their camera-based musical instruments. Here’s what they said. What’s a camera-based musical instrument? Basically, it’s two cameras facing upwards, about a foot below a player’s hands. When they move their hand, it’s converted into…
We asked Bonnie and Widget what to do at craft night if you don’t have a project. Here’s their list… You could do things that have nothing to do with projecting: sit on your own surfing the internet or playing…
So NYC Resistor now has a public slack channel. Why? Because we have awesome chats with people who come into the space for open nights and classes (see participate if you want to join in), and we want to extend…
[Cross-post from Bonnie Eisenman’s blog at Bonnie is often found at the NYC Resistor craft nights] I spent the last week learning Clojure and generating jigsaw puzzles as part of my one-week programming retreat at the Recurse Center. Why jigsaw puzzles?…
NYC is blanketed in snow, travel is hard, the air is cold. We have no craft-night tonight. Stay warm!
We partied ourselves out last night. No Craft Night today. Happy New Year’s everyone!
My favorite artifacts to extract from an old ROM dump are the fonts. For old 80’s-era computers and control equipment, these are usually 1-bit raster fonts covering the ASCII character set. Sometimes, the fonts are even encoded on their own…
We’re throwing a special NYE Craft Night at NYC Resistor! All usual Craft Night shenanigans welcome, whether that’s knitting/soldering/whatever projecting you want. We’ll be starting at 8pm and going til…whenever. Bring your projects, bring your friends, most importantly – bring…
After seeing some of the jaw-dropping and inspiring plotter art that’s been popping up on #plottertwitter this year, I decided to get in on the fun. We don’t have an Axidraw or other modern plotting device handy, but I did…