Every Monday at NYC Resistor is Laser Night, but now every other Monday is also Knit Night! That means tonight, zomg. Come, bring your knitting projects, and hang out. We’ll be here from 7pm til 10pm, or whenever we decide to go home.
Are you interested in making vector display art or playing retro arcade games on XY monitors? Then you will be excited to hear that NYC Resistor is having a class on interfacing with oscilloscopes, vector monitors and laser projectors. After soldering together the v.st 1 MHz DAC boards, we’ll explore how to write your own vector games or art pieces.
We’ll also show how to patch MAME to output the vectors to the USB port and how to convert the classic Vectrex game console to an XY monitor. Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Tempest look great on a real CRT vector display with real phosphors.
We’re also organizing a vector demo scene exhibition in NYC in January. This is your chance to display your glowing line art or video game and show off your retro-aesthetic skills. More details on this will be posted later.
Buy your class tickets (includes the v.st DAC board) and bring your laptop with your creative straight-line ideas to the space on 21 November!
The year was 1995. The place, New York. NYC Resistor would not exist for another 13 years. But, for one precious moment, NYC was alive with the sound of awesome techno, and terrible tech euphemisms.
Now hold on to your jolt cola, because NYC Resistor is going to celebrate what may be the worst best hacker film ever. Hackers of the world unite! Mark your calendars, November 14, 2015 is going to be a day to remember. Yes we’re 2 months late to the actual release date anniversary, but who cares, RISC changed everything.
We expect you to show up dressed the part. Ready to act the part. Cereal Killer fought for your rights to not be trashed, trashing this invitation would be a mockery of everything good in this world. Bring your oversized orange secure systems books! Don your roller blades. Got a hud? You might need it. We’ll be sitting here looking pretty all day waiting for you to crash our party like fifteen hundred and seven systems.
I’ve brewed a beer, and we have a couple of custom projects forming up for this event. You got a month and a half to build something to show you didn’t just get a puter for christmas! But, as long as you can appreciate the beauty of the baud, we’re glad to have you.
NYC Resistor holds regular open houses every Thursday evening and if you’re in town for Makerfaire this week, drop by NYC Resistor for Craft Night! We’ll be busy putting the finishing touches on Semaphore Hero, and hosting other out-of-town makers and hackers. Doors open at 6:30pm and run until 9:30pm!
Do you remember Guitar Hero? We’ve made a game that’s sort of like that, but with way better music, graphics that were pulled from a dating sim/late 90s budget CGI cartoon and two flags that control semaphore gestures!
Use your flag-waving skills to land a plane and/or boat and get rescued from an uncharted island that we’ll pretend has a working airstrip and/or dock. Point your ears in the general direction of this music to find us and get ~*NAUTICAL*~!
World Maker Faire will take place at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, September 26th & 27th, 2015.
Improvised Timekeeping Device (@phooky)
You may have read about Ahmed Mohamed, the 14 year old boy who was arrested Monday for bringing a clock to school. Ahmed built his own digital clock out of spare parts on Sunday night and brought it to school on Monday to show his Engineering teacher. He was arrested – wearing his NASA shirt – after his English teacher claimed it “looks like a bomb.”
Join us in standing with Ahmed and promoting Engineering in schools on Thursday night by making your own DIY clock. Browse our junk drawers, grab some LEDs, and slap together your best Improvised Timekeeping Device. We have plenty of soldering irons and there will be people around to help out if you’re new with electronics. Philosophers will also be on hand if you have trouble with the concept of time itself.
Follow Ahmed’s situation on Twitter.
Craft Night is one of NYC Resistor’s weekly open-to-the-public nights. We’ll be there from about 6:30 p.m. until time stops making sense, at 87 3rd Ave (and Bergen Street) in Brooklyn, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ave / Barclays Center subway stop.
If anyone’s been at the space in the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed me peeling labels off tiny sanitizer bottles and measuring the insides of their caps with calipers while tweaking settings in OpenSCAD. This is for a project I’ll be bringing to the Internet Yami-Ichi this Saturday, September 12th at Knockdown Center. Aside from including generic aloe-vera hand sanitizer, “hidden” within the each cap is an 8GB USB drive pre-loaded with the Tails Live OS, 1.5.1 (sticker was sent to the printer before the new release), which you can boot into from most computers that allow booting from USB drives.
Tails is maintained by a team of really awesome folks across the world who are working in the Laura-Poitras-level edge cases of severe state surveillance that no one else will invest time or money into. In making a physical manifestation with a deliberate design, I want to commemorate what they do and bring their work to the attention of new audiences, in a similar vein as one of my projects last year. Tails also depends in part from donations from its users, so I’ll be pledging 25% of each sale at the Internet Yami-Ichi directly to the Tails project.
There’s only 20 bottles for sale, so stop by Knockdown Center on Caturday to get yours before they sell out!
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Do you wanna build a robot? (cue Frozen music)
No, but seriously, how about an introductory Arduino class where you’ll learn to build a robot?
This class is part of our introductory Arduino, in which you’ll learn to use the Arduino family micro-controllers to interact with the physical world! You don’t need any previous experience with hardware, electrical engineering, or circuitry. In this class, we’ll be covering an introduction to the Adafruit Trinket, a tiny Arduino-IDE programmable board, servo motors, and using sensors for obstacle avoidance. You’ll also go home with your own programmable autonomous robot rover!
Tickets on sale now. Class is Sunday August 23rd.
When : Tonight August 12, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Where : 117 Beekman Street, Manhattan, NY
Details: See Eyebeam.org
I’ll be demoing some of the headphones I’ve 3d printed mashup designs for or hacked on from time to time. Should be fun! Stop by if you are in the area.
Every Monday night is Laser Night at Resistor. But now, every other Monday is also Knit Knight!
Bring your projects, and come hang out with us. We’ll be knitting from 7:30pm, same as Laser Night.
For future Knit Knights, check the calendar.
