I had a great idea for a new, drastically simplified extruder design for RepRap. I decided to spend a day on it, and if it proved fruitful, then I’d pursue it more. Thank god for the laser cutter at NYCR,…

  Four of the Resistors made it out to the Ham Radio University 2009 in Bethpage, NY last Sunday. HRU is a day long convention of amateur radio operators holding forums on various topics of interest to radio operators, including…

We’ve been using GM3 gearmotors for our RepRap extruder motors, but they have a few problems (most notably being underpowered and having cheap plastic gears) so I decided to shop around and try to find a motor that I could…

I think of apple. I am reminded of the age of Woz, and how he literally ushered in the age of the PC with a near divine mastery of hardware design. Then I am reminded of Steve Jobs and how…

Sometimes I blow out transistors.  Sometimes they smoke.  Sometimes they fizzle.  And sometimes, like today, they fail so catastrophically that they blow the face of their encasing epoxy across the room: (The transistor behind it merely cracked in two.)

Behold! Science has finally given us the man-made cockroach! How did we get by without it for so long?

As part of my talk for 25c3, I spent some time talking about weaving looms. Looms are a lot like giant physical graphics processors. They’re also considered to be the first machines to really make use of punch cards. At…

Nicolle from Pumping Station One, a hacker space initiative in Chicago visited NYC Resistor today.  Pumping Station One does not have a home yet, but has begun organizing their paperwork for a 501c3 application.  The project has been going since…

Our article in the NY Times NYC Resistor was featured in the NY Times online today, and will appear in print this Sunday, on page CY5 of the New York edition. First, huge thanks go to Ben Popper for contacting…

Check out this little gem: a ham radio store in the heart of New York City! It’s called Barry Electronics, and you’ll be forgiven if you’ve never heard of it, since they don’t have a website, or a sign, and…