Jan 26 2025 : diyaudio.nyc January Meetup

Resistor hosts a meetup for the diyaudio.nyc group, and invites anyone to come learn about making your own home audio gear.

diyaudio.nyc has regular meetups to share recent DIY projects (speakers, amps, preamps, tubes and solid state – anything home-audio related), as well as talks and demos on related topics and skills (how to solder, how digital crossovers work, fabrication techniques, digital room correction, etc). Building your own gear doesn’t have to be a solitary hobby anymore… has regular meetups to share recent DIY audio projects (speakers, amps, DACs, etc – anything home-audio related), as well as talks and demos on related topics and skills (how to solder, how digital crossovers work, fabrication techniques, digital room correction, etc).

This month we’ll show off some more recent speaker and amp projects, and talk about how to use Room Correction software such as REW.

(If history is any guide, at the end of the meetup some of us will want to keep talking about projects and we’ll move to a bar nearby – join us!)

Have a project you’d like to share? We want to hear about it. Have a project to share? Email [email protected] with the details.

Who should come?

Open to anyone interested in DIY home audio who wants to learn and make some new friends – all experience levels welcome. If you’ve ever wanted to build any audio gear, we’re here for you. (We generally don’t focus on production, live sound, musical instruments, or making music, although there certainly is some overlap.)

Note from the organizer, Pete:

I started diyaudio.nyc a couple years ago because I wanted to meet some like-minded folks near me – I knew they were out there. And they are! Thank you for being a part! Let’s grow this group! These days, for me, it’s all audio all the time – I work as a Buyer for The Music Room buying high end audio equipment, and also offer complete classes to build your own equipment as Gowanus Audio.

This is a masks optional event.

As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

 

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Feb 01 2025 : Electronics

hardware electronic music party

FEB 1, NYC RESISTOR
YOYOCORP RECORDS PRESENTS
A TAPE RELEASE SHOW WITH
3 TAPES AND LIVE PERFORMANCES BY
ELECTRONICS HEADS:
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SLACKJAW
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WITH SUPPORT FROM
NO EYES
AND
00PHORO
AND LIVE VISUALS BY LATINACROFT

YKTV, COME LISTEN TO HARDWARE

MUSIC ON THE EVER EVOLVING

@ephasure SOUNDSYSTEM

OPEN DEX/MIXER B4 & BTWEEN

NOTAFLOF PLS DONATE IF U CAN

This is a masks optional event.

As with all NYC Resistor events, this class is 18+ and governed by our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, as well as accessibility information, can be found at www.nycresistor.com/participate/.

Please note that refunds must be requested 24 hours in advance. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

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Masks On Craft Night Hiatus – June 7th 2024

In case you missed the announcement at the previous Masks On Craft Night, we are prepping for our big annual fundraiser, The Interactive Show, that night. We’ll be masking up again on Wednesday June 19th.

Design circuit boards with KiCAD!

Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. May 8th, 6PM.

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The 14th Annual Interactive Show: Third Space From the Sun

Post-apocalyptic landscape with the words "Third Space from the sun and June 8 2024"

NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show is here again! Our annual party and fundraiser features cool interactive projects with music and drinks.NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show returns for its 14th iteration. Our annual party and fundraiser invites hackers from around the region to show off their cool interactive projects with free beats and beers provided. Tickets $17.85 ($15 plus fees) in advance, $20 at the door.

This year’s theme is Third Space From the Sun. Grab your tickets now! See previews of participating artists on the NYC Resistor blog and Instagram.

A³ : The Analog Art Auction

A3 Analog Art Auction Logo

NYC Resistor will be auctioning off art made by Resistor members and friends to raise operating funds for our organization: paintings, pen plots, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, etc. Reception with music and refreshments, silent auction of all pieces culminating at 9pm.

Doors at 4pm. Live music starts at 6pm. Auction at 9pm. Dancing and good times after the auction.

You can RSVP at Eventbrite to let us know you’re coming. $5 suggested donation.

Stay tuned for previews of art you can bid on at the auction!

Design circuit boards with KiCAD!

Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. February 28, 10AM.

Sign up here!

 

 

 

Breath Life Into Your Projects by Using Dead Vapes at Open Hardware Summit

Hand holding what looks like a heavily modified Elfbar with electronic components protroding from its surface.

Heading north for Open Hardware Summit this year? Join NYC Resistor members Becky Stern, Kari Love, and friends for a talk on re-purposing discharged disposable vape parts. Becky will introduce the salvage process and how regulation had the unintended consequence of creating more e-waste, and Kari, David Rios, and Shuang Cai will talk about how they transformed them into rechargeable musical instruments!

Disposable vaping devices, like the ubiquitous Elfbar, are designed to become ubiquitous e-waste, but as much as the batteries are coated in sticky nicotine, they can, in fact, be repurposed for re-use. Like many contradictions in the production of electronics, this is due to a confluence of economic and political factors beyond just engineering concerns, which will be explored in this session.

The Open Hardware Summit is happening May 3rd and 4th in 2024. Tickets for Open Hardware Summit are available now. See you in Montreal!

Woodworking at SJSW

Our friends at the nonprofit woodworking studio SJSW are offering a class in woodworking. Students make a chair to take home. They’re great teachers; I learn something new every time I walk by!

Sign up here!

Learn KiCad!

Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. February 28, 10AM.

Sign up here!