The Fun with Coils workshop is coming up – Saturday Feb. 13th from 4-6pm. Mess around with coils to make custom instrument pickups, junkbox loudspeakers, secret transmitters, and more! You can sign up on eventbrite.

I considered not writing this. I also considered posting a book review of one of the many books of Howard Ziinn’s that I’ve read. But ultimately, I think it’s right to call this guy a world class hacker of history.…

Our friends with Make:NYC are having their next open meeting on Thursday, February 4th.  It looks quite awesome — you get together and build something in a couple of hours to compete for fame and glory!  Here’s the details: Make:NYC…

Over the weekend we hit our goal of $2000, less than 5 days into the 25 day run! Thank you everyone who contributed, it means a lot to us. The outpouring of support has been nothing short of amazing. If…

I’ve been slowly (very slowly) setting up a small store at Resistor to carry electronics parts and prototyping tools, since there aren’t any retail stores in town where you can pick up an Arduino RIGHT NOW. While ordering parts and…

Kickstarter.com is, in their words, “a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.” They connect people with ideas to the funds needed to make things happen. Our upcoming move is nothing if not an ambitious endeavor. In addition…

We’re at the end of our 2 year lease at NYCResistor. We’ve grown out of our space. Classes are almost always full, the heat isn’t on on the weekends, and the walls are stacked high with projects. It’s been time…

Steve Holden & Jacob Kaplan-Moss are teaching a couple NYC based classes. (ZOMGBLT THE Steve Holden! SQUEE!) Steve is teaching Intro to Python, and Jacob is teaching Practical Django Skills. (Django is pretty cool web framework from what I’ve seen…