4×5 view camera adapter for a 35mm SLR
I recently acquired an early 1900’s Gundlach 4×5 view camera with a few lenses and designed an adapter to mount a modern DSLR body where the film plane would go. There is no lens connected to the SLR — the…
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Mystery Box
When Raphael needed to clean up the faces of the aluminum enclosure for his latest mysterious project, he decided to go fancy.
Intro to HTML/CSS Workshop this Saturday
Come learn how to create websites with Alexis this Saturday. She’ll walk you through step-by-step and get you creating your Web 2.0 foundations in no time using an open source code editor. Sign up at EventBrite:
The Resistor Jeltone
A few months ago we put together a little team to enter the Jello Mold Competition at Gowanus Studio Space. The team members were me, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Astrida Valigorsky, and Mimi Hui. After a false start or two, we ended…
TICKETS still available for this AMAZING new class! THIS SUNDAY!
Do you want to add computer vision to your project? Do you want to make your own 3D images, vision-based musical instrument using a kinect, or teach your robot how to follow a ball? In this class Ingenuitas, the maker’s…
Laser slicing
While uploading a model to thingiverse, I noticed an ultra cute Cthulhu and had to print it immediately on the Makerbot at NYC Resistor. Then I had an idea that the same process that generates the gcode shells for the…
Morse code keyboard
Have you switched your QSOs to PSK31 or some other digital mode, but miss the joy of sending CW with an iambic paddle? Then here’s a project for you.
Dome If You Want To
Tonight, we assembled our new 16′ diameter PVC dome. The result of two solid Saturdays of work, it came together beautifully. Now we just need to disassemble it and move all the furniture back in before tomorrow’s class…
Geeky Valentine’s day Ecards from the US Patent Office
A few days ago, one of our newest members, @dustynrobots shared a link to some amazing Valentine’s day cards with the rest of the group. These amazing Valentine’s day cards for makers by Steve Hoefer are sourced from old public…
Hacking the Gilson
Like playing chase-the-laser-pointer with a kitten. After a couple weeks of hacking on the Gilson we have PID* control. When we first saw the Gilson, we didn’t have access to any feedback mechanisms. All we had were panic stop modes…