Let’s get lazzzoring every Monday night! Come get some work on your projects on this laser focused* open hack night. The laser will be available on a first-ready first-served single job basis. If you haven’t been trained on the laser…
I really enjoyed Saturday’s “Fire The Lazzzor!” class and wanted to share a couple of pictures sent in by clever students. Herb made a tiny pizza box on 120lb kraft paper. What normally took 15 minutes by expert hands completed…
How do you keep an iPhone running for long periods of time when you are off the grid? You can’t change the battery in the phone, so carrying a spare isn’t an option. Devices like LadyAda’s excellent MintyBoost use AA…
The latest branch in my career as a wandering hacker: puppetcircuits. I’m working with puppeteers here in New York on some full scale robotic puppet heads. This is a new field for me, so I decided to document it and…
Four talented hackers from NYU are planning to spend the summer building Diaspora “the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network”. This is a particularly timely project in the wake of the recent “open” graph announcements at…
Quoting an excerpt from Mitch seen on Make Blog: Notacon was way wonderful this year. The Hardware Hacking Area was way bigger than last year (as is the case *everywhere*!), and it was totally hopping! More than a third of…
May 15th is approximately half-way to Halloween and we just can’t wait any longer. Put on your best costume and come on out for our ridiculously early Halloween party! May 15th 9p-??? NYCR 87 3rd Ave 4th floor No door…
There are still a number of tickets available this Saturday for a new class here at Resistor. It’s called Fun with Touch Sensors, and it features a lot of hands on interaction with the kinds of sensors you find in…
Join DIYbio NYC this Wednesday while we screen the PBS documentary ‘Naturally Obsessed’. We’ll kick things off around 8pm, but come early to get a good seat. Following the movie stick around for a lively discussion about what it is…
I spent a decent portion of yesterday on the laser, prototyping a tiny embroidery hoop for (duh) tiny embroidery. I'm pretty happy with the results. So much in fact that I've decided to start offering tiny embroidery kits along side…