Last weekend was the awesome Art Hack Day hackathon, organized in part by Resistor member David Huerta and Resistor friend Shayna Gentiluomo. Artists from all over were invited to the awesome Pioneer Works space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where they met, brainstormed, and executed on a wide array of ideas spanning many mediums, in less than 48 hours.

I showed up uninvited, glued a Beaglebone Black to a Pringles can, and ended up with a note on Makezine:

Built with an A-version BeagleBone Black, this WiFi Taser by Max Henstell turned a Pringles can into an antenna gun of sorts, using Python to send deauth packets to knock nearby laptops off wi-fi.

Resistor member Adam Mayer and 3D artist Bradley Rothenberg put together this awesome robot utilizing a broken security camera that I rescued off the Google building after Hurricane Sandy:

Last Robot Left Alive, by Bradley Rothenberg and Adam Mayer. The installation postulated the resurrection of a broken security camera that fell to the ground, likely due to wind sheer from Hurricane Sandy.

Resistors Olivia Barr and Ariel Cotton were also present to whip up a cool robot, a trash-creature from the Gowanus Canal.

My silent favorite of the show wasn’t operating optimally, but I know where this one comes from. Monster Mash, by Olivia Barr and Ariel Cotton, turned upcycled junk into a creature from the Gowanus Canal, a nearby Superfund site with record levels of pollutants.

Check out the rest of the awesome projects over at the Makezine writeup of Art Hack Day: Deluge.

NYC Resistor and Urban Glass have joined forces to bring you some tech inspired crafty creativity. The class is scheduled for Sunday, January 18th at 10am.

Resistor’s new cutting laser will be put to use to etch designs in glass through a masking tape resist. Amazingly, the masking tape holds up well against 60 psi of flying sand. Maybe we should all make masking tape ponchos for next year’s Burning Man.

The designs are taken to Urban Glass to sand blast the etch a little deeper to accommodate enamel.

Then, enamel is painted into the sand blasted recesses.

The lasered masking tape is removed, and the glass is ready for firing overnight with a long ramp up and a long cool down cycle.

The fired pieces will look very similar to this. The enamels don’t change color much in firing unlike some ceramic glazes.

Taprats, an iterative design tool, was used to simulate an Islamic tile pattern. The lower half pattern is the negative of the upper half.

We’re also experimenting with halftoned images. More images to come!

This is the first in a series of exploratory classes combining the creative power of two great Brooklyn spaces. Come join us on Sunday. The class sign-up is here.

Announcing the 2015 Make-Along series at NYCResistor and our brand new MAKE-ALONG CLUB pass! Get a full 12 months worth of craft classes for the price of a single class elsewhere! (Pass starts whenever you buy it, so if you buy it May 2015 it’s good til May 2016. Woo!) Our main goal at Resistor is to get more people making things and feeding their creative brains. Come be creative with us!

Join us this Sat for NAIL ART! Learn tons of nail art techniques including how use lasers to make your own custom nail stamps. Seriously guys. LASER NAILS. Can you get any cooler.

2015 MAKE-ALONG CLASSES ($10 – $15 each class OR a full year pass for $85! Taught by Colleen AF Venable (hey that’s me!) and Shelby Arnold.
January 17, 1-4pm – Nail Art
February 8 , 4-7pm- Paper Electronics (please note later time slot)
March 8, 1-4pm – Crochet & Amigurumi
April 12, 1-4pm – Book Binding
May 10 , 1-4pm- Terrariums
June 14, 1-4pm – Print Making / Screenprinting
July 12 , 1-4pm- Plushies
August 9, 1-4pm – Washi Tape
September 13, 1-4pm – Soft Circuits
Oct 4, 1-4pm – Dioramas
Oct 11, 1-4pm- Costumes
Oct 18, 1-4pm – Bento Box
Oct 25 , 1-4pm- Pumpkin Hacking
November 8 , 1-4pm- Pop-Ups
December 13 , 1-4pm- Holiday Crafts

Come be crafty with us!