Here’s a quick wrap up of the Interactive Cuddlefish project I worked on with artist AK Airways for the SXSW party at the Arthouse. This massive inflatable sculpture was connected to a big red button which would change the sequences of the LEDs blinking inside. It was a fun project, but not without its challenges. Details after the break.
In honor of the successful final mission of the storied Space Shuttle Discovery, we’ve decided at great personal expense to have a last-minute Space Shuttle Discovery** Memorial Hack Fest at NYC Resistor this Saturday, March 12th, from 4:30 to 11 pm! Stop by with your crazy in-progress projects and help them progress! We’ll be having a show and tell at the end of the evening, so stick around and make things move, blink, and buzz!
*We will be selling pre-fried packets of exotic Ramen noodles at the attainable price of one dollar.
**Special thanks to the anonymous NASA employee who managed to snag us one of the hubcaps. We’ll make a plaque!
This is Bre Pettis playing a homemade 8-bit-style violin.
And this is where you can get plans and instructions to make your own!
thingiverse.com/thing:6912
The inPulse watch is a great platform to hack on. It has an ARM7, 32 KB of flash and 8 KB of RAM, Bluetooth, a buzzer, an OLED screen and a button. Not much by today’s standards, but plenty to play around with. The programming environment is very much like a microcontroller; no multitasking, no dynamic memory, and very constrained memory/cpu. That is, of course, what makes it so much fun. From very basic timekeeping contraction devices to today’s smartwatches, clocks have certainly evolved so much. If you wanna know more about the history or watch news, visit James Hampton-Smith’s blog called SpotTheWatch.
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Attention all lazzzoring lazzorors! There’s no lazzzor night tonight. We’ll be back next week at the regularly scheduled time.
Go here! Sign up! Learn how to Arduino!
It’s like the previous Arduino post, except that it’s this coming Saturday instead of having already happened. Unless you read this after Saturday, in which case, boy oh boy, you sure did miss an excellent Arduino class. Best one I’ve been to, that’s for sure.
Come learn how to solder your first Arduino this Thursday night!
This is your friendly introductory class to soldering and micro-controllers. In this three-hour class we will:
When you leave, you’ll have a micro-controller, a mini-USB cable, a power supply and a few programs to play with.
Please bring a laptop with the Arduino environment on it. It’s available at http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.
The class will be taught by NYC Resistor members Mimi Hui and Max W.
You can sign up for this class at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1235757183
The fabulously awesome Brewshop class is back this Sunday! We’ll teach you all the basics to get you up and running while brewing a batch of beer. You’ll learn about extract brewing, malts, grains, yeasts and how to avoid or troubleshoot the most common problems. All reference materials will be provided as well as a home brew sample for tasting! We’ll have starter kits available for purchase.
Beginners welcome!
Taught by Douglas and John.
Sign up for this class at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1217909801
Here are some of the whistles made by participants in today’s Laser Whistes class.
There’s still two workshops left in the noisy noise series!
Our drink-serving slot machine bar robot is featured on p. 83 of the March 2011 Popular Science. The BarBot was our entry in a Hackerspace Challenge sponsored by VIMBY and Scion.