Bring your cash and your curiosity to our FIRST EVER HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR December 15, from 12-6pm. We’ll offer a free soldering workshop that day as well as host a number of makers in our area who’ll be selling their…
Next weekend at NYC Resistor we are teaching a class on the Adafruit FLORA and Neopixel. These round Arduino compatible controller boards are a great base for wearable projects like watches, jackets and neck ties, as well as holiday decorations.…
In a show of solidarity with our oppressed Meleagris gallopavo brethren, there will be no craft night this Thursday, November 28th. We recommend gathering together with friends and loved ones and sharing a hearty seasonal meal of kale and pine…
Last year we wrote about building HID Proxcard RFID tags with attiny85 microcontrollers (based on Micah’s avrfid.s code). The C version only supported classic 26-bit cards, but I recently needed to support the “secure” HID Corporate 1000 35-bit format. Based…
Just a reminder, no laser night tonight. You’re welcome to come by and hack instead! The laser is down but should be repaired by Tuesday!
The PUMA 260 robot arm that was hanging around NYC Resistor was seen heading into Manhattan on the subway.
I’d like to share a neat Eagle hack for all our the people who have taken our Eagle CAD classes (myself included) and our Eagle-using friends. BOM-EX is nifty little ULP (User Language Program) that extends the functionality of the…
Hexascroller has been a central fixture at NYCR for the past few years, with a few ups and downs. It’s replacement, Octoscroller, improves on our classic message alert polygon by having two more sides and two more colors of LEDs.…
We always have inspirational people and projects come through our classes. Here are a few photos of first-time cuts from students who participated in the laser class on Saturday.
This year the Disorient Camp at Burning Man built a 7m tall pyramid with over half a kilometer of LED strips. Several artists developed patterns for the panels, including Disorient founder Leo Villareal and Jacob Joaquin from Fresno Idea Works.…