We’re throwing a Halloween pumpkin-hacking party! We’ll be making pumpkins light up and react to touch sensing or maybe motion. We’re also thinking up pumpkin-y desserts featuring cooking those gourds with lasers and fire. Who’s in? Bring your own pumpkin,…
Are you interested in book arts? Have you always wanted to bind your own books? Or design pop-up books? Did you know we now have an intaglio printing press at Resistor? Guess what! We’re having a super-mega DIY Book Arts…
The Resistor JelTone is an edible and playable toy piano created by NYC Resistor members Ranjit Bhatnagar, Astrida Valigorsky, Mimi Hui and Catarina Mota for the annual Gowanus Studio Jello Mold Competition. As part of our investigation into the properties of Jello– we realized that both…
Catarina Mota, Alicia Gibb and Shelby Arnold built a speaker made entirely from copper foil tape on cardstock + a magnet. They’re testing it with the JelTone edible piano. The speaker’s design comes from the High-Low Tech Research Group at…
Today 10/3 Laser Night is cancelled due to a fire two weeks ago in our Laser. Parts were delayed at the supplier, and arrive tomorrow. We should be back up for Craft Night this week, check here for status after…
I’ve been inspired by the Lasersaur project to try building an XY table for laser cutting, Makerbotting, and light duty milling. The brackets, motor mounts and carriages are all 3D printed on NYCR’s Makerbot Thing-o-matic. Today I was able to…
Are you jealous of all your designer friends who can whip up Illustrator images in an instant for the laser, for their website, for a client? Curious just what Illustrator can do? Come learn with Caitlin Sherman, a friend of…
Today 9/26 Laser Night is cancelled due to a fire last Monday in our Laser. Rest assured we’ll be back in order by next week. We’re just awaiting the repair parts, which we expect to have in, in 3-4 days.
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:
At 19:3020:30 on this Monday’s extra special laser night, Addie and Stefan from Nortd Labs gave a presentation on the Lasersaur, their Kickstarter funded open source laser cutter. Safety goggles were not required, but fire extinguishers were.