Quickie Hack: DXF Parabola
Zach needed a parabola in QCAD, so I whipped up a quick script to generate DXF parabolas. Source inside.
Zach needed a parabola in QCAD, so I whipped up a quick script to generate DXF parabolas. Source inside.

I gave Zach several months to post this. And he hasn’t. I am not sure why, but it’s probably because he’s too busy advancing his skills and the capacity of his makerbots to take the time. A few months ago…
Hello all! Just wanted to remind you that the Paper Engineering class is this Saturday at 1-3pm. If you’d like to learn how to design pop-ups and paper mechanisms, come check it out! This isn’t a template based class –…

Our friends over at Tekserve in Manhattan are hosting an eWaste recycling event April 10th, 2010 from 10am to 4pm. Find out the full details here, especially WHAT YOU CAN BRING: A sample of the stuff they’ll take: computers,…
Wow, just – wow. Patrick Jean posted this Apr 7, so it’s fairly fresh. Amazing NYC videography-meets-CGI. Watch it in full-screen, my WordPress-posting-fu is still in training (it is also 02:00 UTC-4.) PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Uploaded by onemoreprod. –…
So there’s been some news regarding Scrabble making some rule changes as of late. I’m not sure I hold with all those rules, but I figured if we’re looking at making scrabble better I’d toss my hat into the ring.…
There’s a lot of discussion going around on the web about the controversial new device placed onto the free market by Apple Computers, the iPad. I was thinking about the app store approval process, and the potential for how shall…

NYC Resistor was invited to exhibit our old Teletype Model 15 at Eyebeam’s MIXER event last March. To make life interesting, we used a small Python program to grab tweets from Twitter matching the “eyebeam” keyword. Watching a 50+ year…
The venerable and highly esteemed Mr Stabby. An orphan robot found upon the streets of new york, and eventually dropped off at NYC Resistor has found a home in our hearts. Luckily we’ve kept him thus far from plunging a…

(More photos coming tomorrow)