We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
I upgraded a cool vintage lamp to work with voice commands through my Amazon Echo using an ESP8266 microcontroller and relay circuit. The fauxmoESP Arduino library is what does the heavy lifting in this project; it emulates a Belkin WeMo…
PSA to Craft Night guests: our elevator is not working tonight. Apologies to anyone who needs it.
Dominion is an award-winning deck-building card game that has ten expansions released as of this writing. There are a wide variety of proposed storage solutions to the problem of toting about several thousand cards and sundry mats and tokens, and…
Robots are neat, but everyone has one around the house these days. From Roomba to Alexa, there’s an army of soothing plastic helpers to help you look up actor names and eliminate your least favorite repetitive tasks. Aren’t you curious…
Holidays? What holidays! Resistor will be open as usual tonight for Craft Night / Knit Knight.
Hey NYCR visitors – have you done something neat lately? Let us know, so we can blog about it! Julia learned to knit in December at NYC Resistor. And then, uh….this blanket happened. Julia, you’re amazing. Students outshining their teachers,…
Join the fun at the NYC Resistor Interactive Show this Saturday, where you can play Dance Dance Running Man by Colleen AF Venable, Eric Skiff, and Astrida Valigorsky: Dance Dance Running Man revives the dance-game classic DDR as dystopian chase…
Come to the NYC Resistor Interactive Show this Saturday to see “Who Do You Love” by Adelle Lin, Olivia Barr, and Matt Pinner: A deplorable reality television host rises to power by exploit people for the sake of entertainment. He…
Here’s another Interactive Show preview, this time of “Panorama Lamp” by Kirill Shevyakov, Alexander Savvy, and Paul Koch. Check it out in action in this video. The Panorama lamp is a tribute to a monumental Soviet architecture. Inspired by a…