Last week I posted a screed about that peculiarly modern variant of grave-robbing, ROM-dumping. That was the Why; this post is the How. Dumping the contents of a ROM onto your computer is surprisingly simple. All you need to get…
After blowing the circuit breaker and fusing a dimmer coil with a bridge rectifier at 130v DC, it was time to start small — one 9v battery at a time. I’ve been wanting to anodize titanium and use the laser to…
Hey, you know what’s great? Numbers. Everybody loves numbers! I love numbers, you love numbers. Numbers are the best. But you know who doesn’t love numbers? Laptop manufacturers, who are horrible trolls with hearts of coal. They are so opposed…
CHANGING TO ISOCRATIC MODE OF OPERATION ABORTS GRADIENT AND LEAVES EVENTS IN THEIR CURRENT STATE There are incoherent, mumbling ghosts everywhere. A lot of the time they look like this. These are 80’s-era erasable programmable read-only memories, or EPROMs. They…
Did you manage to get tickets to Burning Man this year? Seriously? Congratulations! Now light them on fire and get your ass to ToorCamp instead. There are plenty of prescriptions for summertime fun. You can go to the best indoor…
NYC Resistor member Raphael Abrams uses his telescope to project the Transit of Venus:
This is a little late, but we’ll be profiling each of the exhibits from this years Interactive Show. This week we’re taking a look at Asa Alger‘s Adventure Box. Adventure Box is an ongoing project designed to take an ordinary…
A few years ago, I released an 8-bit album called “Resistor Anthems” under the Creative Commons Attribution license (which means people can download and use the album however they like for free, even in commercial projects, as long as they…
I’ve recently had success in making a conductive ink using a fine copper powder suspended in an acrylic airbrush medium. This paper on conductive epoxies was really the key to getting this ink working. The paper shows that etching the…
