Sewable Charlieplexing
Want to drive more LEDs with fewer IO pins? Then you might be interested in the Charlieplexing technique. I’ve written an example sketch can drive six LEDs each with 8-bit PWM using the three IO pins on the Adafruit GEMA…
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Cryptographic hardware tokens for more secure email
Are you worried that you’re not paranoid enough about your communications security and want to improve your OpSec? Edward Snowden says to trust in encryption, but you still need to worry about the systems that run it: Encryption works. Properly…
Hack Holyoke
Last Friday was the Hack Holyoke 24-hour embedded systems hackathon, held at Mt Holyoke College. Of the 200 participants, well over half were women from the Seven Sisters schools and many were attending their first hackathon. One of the distinguishing…
resistor.nyc
As of today, you can now reach NYC Resistor’s website as the classic nycresistor.com, the short nycr.us and the fabulous new TLD resistor.nyc. Thanks to NYC Resistor member Herb Hoover for registering during the .nyc land-rush phase!
With a 3d printer, bad ideas become bad decisions.
I 3d printed these boss headphone ear pieces for my sony mdr v6s. They are bad. Like 1980s power glove bad. You know it. #hashtag =D
Maker Faire 2014
NYC Resistor will be at Maker Faire NYC 2014 with project by members, including Olivia Barr’s Not A Camera, Ariel Cotton’s Distance Dolls and the return of Megascroller running Mario-in-the-round. We hope to see you there!
Pax Instruments T400 datalogger on Kickstarter
The Pax Instruments T400 temperature datalogger is on Kickstarter right now! The T400 is a project of NYC Resistor’s own Charles Pax of Pax Instruments. The Pax Instruments T400 datalogger is an open source four-channel thermocouple temperature datalogger based on…
Reverse Engineering with Hopper
Want to get started with reverse engineering on i386, x86-64 or ARM systems? The Hopper disassembler makes it easy! Or at least easier to understand what is going on in binaries, firmware dumps and other random executables that you might…
HOWTO: Boot your PDP-11/34
The dual-rack PDP-11/34 is on static display at my office, so I’ve written a quick guide on booting RT-11 and getting Colossal Cave Adventure compiled from FORTRAN sources.
Reverse engineering our Pick and Place
Ronald Huveneers decided that reverse engineering an NES was too easy, so he started reverse engineering our Pick and Place machine.