No laser night tonight
We’ll be closed tonight for Memorial Day. See you at Craft Night on Thursday. Have a great holiday! Don’t forget our 6th annual Interactive Show is this Saturday!
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INTERACTIVE SHOW: May 30th 8PM, be there!
Mark your calendars! Our annual interactive art show fundraiser is coming up on May 30th and it’s going to be totally ~cyberbananas~. New York’s partiest interactive artists will be showing off their latest explorations into the future, sometimes with robots!…
NSFW Arduino Class on May 23
Been waiting for an intro to Arduino class? Join us for a NSFW edition on May 23rd! Tickets here. We’re partnering with Orgasmatronics Inc. to run a class — check out their IndieGoGo campaign. The workshop will be a no-experience-needed,…
LEDs + LEGO compatibility = Awesome
NYCResistor member Alicia Gibb has an amazing project up on Kickstarter! Reserve your Build Upons to build this cute robot now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828089281/build-upons-light-up-bricks Build Upons are awesomely tiny light up bricks that are compatible with LEGO® bricks! The Build Upons system has…
Soft Robots for Hard Problems
What is a soft robot anyway? Over the last few weeks I’ve been giving demos at Resistor to show students what they are, what they’re good for, and how you can make your own. Resistor was host to two meetup…
Calling all post-internet, pre-singularity interactivity artists!
The Interactive Show is coming up faster than Big Dog on a graphene high! This year we’ve been musing over the future and our relationship between us our robot friends. So much of our imaginations have been shoehorned into narratives…
Chez Resistoir, a 2015 vintage
We bottled our first ever wine at Resistor today. Two of our members and a couple of other folks in the community learned how to make basement wine from an honest to god bensonhurst italian. We’ve only bottled the Monte…
gopher.nycresistor.com
NYC Resistor now has a Gopher site at , although your web browser must be sufficiently standards compliant and/or hip to use it. One such browser is Lynx, shown here running on a Kaypro 2.
SparkSign
Next time you visit NYC Resistor, you might notice a new LED clock above the laser room door. It’s built with a surplus AMD1026 one-line LED display that has been re-brained with a SparkCore. Eventually we might take advantage of…
Lasers, Pies, and Pi Day
Ignoring the Half-Tau Day heretics out there, we laser-etched some pies for Pi Day. This is a cranberry-orange meringue pie. Turns out the meringue etches beautifully! If you look closely at the pie you’ll notice that there are digits of pi…