Sponsor the Summit!

Sponsorship for the Open Hardware Summit is open! Special thanks to our sponsors who have already donated.

The summit is in its second iteration in partnership with MAKE and Makerfaire at the New York Hall of Science. Last year, 350 people came together to share knowledge about bringing open hardware to market, solving issues around open design, protocols and licensing. Many more people watched online and got involved in the conversation through the forums and twitter. Together with support from you, we have gained more momentum as a team. The definition we signed last year was turned into a license by CERN. We held a logo competition which received 129 submissions and chose one by popular vote. The summit continues to be about the DIY, Maker, small scale (and growing to large) fabrication movements and Open Hardware, and legalese around open source hardware.

By sponsoring the Open Hardware Summit you’ll be fostering the open source hardware movement. Read more about Why to Sponsor.

This is a non-profit event. Extra funds from sponsorship will be put toward a scholarship for creating open hardware.

Would you like to Sponsor?

Your donation is tax deductible. Thanks to Eyebeam Art and Technology center, our non-profit fiscal sponsor for handling the finances.

We’re havin’ a heat wave. A tropical heat wave. No worries, Resistor has awesome AC! (by awesome, I mean BIG AC)

Come learn from our resident expert designer, Astrida, how to rapid prototype your idea with our 35Watt Epilog laser. The class will take you from idea to finished cut parts. You’ll learn what you can cut, how much it costs, and get an idea of the overall cost of your project. Afterwards, you’ll be authorized to use the laser on Craft Night and Laser Night for generating your awesome ideas.

Register at EventBrite here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1805174325

One of NYCR’s most popular weekly events is Lunar Laser Mondays using our Epilog mini-35 laser cutter. The only supported system is Windows with CorelDRAW and Epilog’s closed source driver, which doesn’t seem right for a hackerspace. Luckily, AS220 Labs has figured out how to talk to the Epilog using PJL. I’ve written a command line tool, epilog, that will translate the Postscript file into commands for the cutter.
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NYC Resistors Catarina, Max, Mike and Nick have worked tirelessly prepping our entry to the RED BULL CHALLENGE. If you have a Facebook account, please help our team by clicking on the ‘Like’ button here. (Sorry Google+  its still about having a Facebook account… for now… even though this would not have been half the fun without your Hangouts).

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are collaborating on a series of new vocabularies that we can use in our websites to better mark up our pages. HTML5’s Microdata allows you to leverage these vocabularies.

Why should you care? Well, take it from the search engine providers themselves: “Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.”

Want to learn more about how Microdata may improve your search results snippets? NYCR member Alexis Goldstein will be giving a class on Microdata next Wednesday night. For more details and to RSVP, see: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1571260683