Robert Carlson bridges both the NYC Resistor and DIYBio worlds – he’s an electrical engineer who turns E. coli into circuits! He famously discovered the Carlson curves, the biotech equivalent of Moore’s Law. They show that biotech is advancing at…

Works include a lineage of variations, modifications and relations to the Arduino microcontroller Hc Gilje Aaron Koblin Hernando Barragán Edith Kollath Jan Borchers & René Bohne Becky Stern Ranjit Bhatnagar Oscar G. Torres & Jackoon Raphael Abrams Joe Saavedra Curated…

Here’s a simple paint program I made using canvas. It’s a pretty blatent ripoff of another one that a friend showed me today, but unfortunately I don’t have the URL handy. (Sorry, I’ll update in the morning!) The framework makes…

For today’s March Madness program I made a visualization of Tumblr quotes from a few friends I follow. I turn the text into a tumbleweed and let it ramble on by across the screen. It could definitely use some optimization…

For today’s March Madness program I wanted to try to do something useful with the canvas tag. I decided it would be nice to be able to programmatically generate a background gradient for a web page based on the time…

I just discovered a new community site of interest to NYCR blog readers. ChipHacker.com is a Stack Overflow-like site for doing questions and answers on hardware hacking problems. It’s been up now for few weeks and they’ve already got over…

A quick and simple scroller for today’s entry. The letters NYCR scroll by to reveal a video playing behind it. Because of the cross-site scripting security restrictions imposed on the canvas tag I couldn’t make this as interesting as I…