Fire The Lazzzor! @ NYC Resistor
Do you have a product design that you’ve been putting off making for a while, but could blast it out in a jiffy with a 35 watt laser? Want to make a pile of halloween decorations but hate all that…
We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
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Arduino/Soldering 101 Class at NYCR this sunday
Make your own Arduino and learn to program it! One of our most requested classes is back – come join us Sunday at noon and get started with Arduino, soldering, and electronics. There’s so much fun stuff you can do…
Craft Night & Special Talk: Pinball Hacking
Pinball Hacking! Juca will speak on building an Arduino-controlled pinball machine from scratch! Topics will cover reverse-engineering the “PARTY Land” game from the 1993 Amiga video game, “Pinball Fantasies.” Many of us pined for our own pinball machines as children…
Mitch Altman hosts video hackerspace series
NYC Resistor was invited to join a 21 day hacking competition against 4 other hackerspaces. The competition video is hosted by Mitch Altman of Noisebridge, VIMBY, and Scion. Our episode will be featured next week! Episode 1 is here on…
Hackers The Movie 15th Anniversary
It's hard to imagine that 15 years have passed since Hackers came out. It seems like only yesterday we were grimacing through the bad acting and worse "technology" references that Hackers brought to life. Whether you love or hate the…
FIRE THEE LAZZZZOR! at NYC Resistor
Wanna make a 1/10 scale trebuchet to test out your PunkinChunkin design? Do you have a great holiday gift idea in your head that laser cut rapid prototyping would help you realize? Hmmm. Wish you could make a Pop-up but…
What I did on my summer vacation
Andrew O’Malley Hacker in Residence @ NYCResistor, Summer 2010 Hi, I’m Andrew O’Malley, a Canadian new-media artist with a formal background in Electrical Engineering. Back in July, my wife, Deborah, and I relocated from Ottawa, Ontario to NYC for the…
Big Crowd for the Battery Class
Dan Steingart of City College taught a 2 hour introduction to batteries, we had 25+, standing room only after announcing it less than a week before. so I guess this is a hot topic! Watch our classes page for upcoming…
MakerBot Build Party
NYC Resistor will be hosting a MakerBot build party today (Thursday, September 2nd) during craft night from 6 to 10 pm. Calling all NYC MakerBot operators! We’re building a bot farm and we need your help! Today (Thursday, September 2nd)…
Homebrew 1/10 scale Cray-1 (with tiny seating bench!) Finally finished!
No hackerspace is complete without it’s own rockin’ supercomputer – and when a Gibson isn’t available, a Cray-1 will have to do. My 1/10-scale, binary-compatible Cray-1 is finally done! This project took a long time (almost as long as my…