NYC Resistor

Sometimes it’s not about a complex, clever project. Sometimes it’s just about pulling off a quick fix.

The lovely standing lamp by the sewing table at NYCR had come off of its base, and the threads on the tube at the bottom had stripped out completely. Since it had never really been used elsewhere, a mounting bracket for the sewing table seemed appropriate. FreeCAD is terrific for whipping up parametric designs like this, and the Fasteners workbench let me drop in the hardware and ensure the…

NYC Resistor has become a node for yet another mesh network, but this one uses postcards! Akin to the CCC’s Chaos Post, this one is similar to that, but forever instead of just during CCC events.

From Hacker Post:

We route the packets. We host the mesh, run the radios, and keep the servers limping along at 3am. We have rebuilt every layer of the stack ourselves, for fun and occasionally out of spite. Every layer except one: physically moving a thing from a person to a person. That part still…

It’s twenty minutes before door open when Vince, the show curator, looks me in the eye and says, “Crunch time.” On the table, the chandelier is gutted, I am applying solder and electrical tape to wrap the half dozen wires into one coherent chunk of copper, to run into the laptop adapter that I’ve hacked as to operate as the power supply.

I nod, I don’t want to retort that I have been in crunch time for the last three days, in preparation for my piece, “Key Piece of My Heart” for the annual NYC…

pen plot by GRNCH

 

On display at Resistor and up for auction:

“Null 1.2” – GRNCH

Pen plot on paper
30″ x 20″
2024

This is round 2 of our extremely slow, perpetual, single-file art auction fundraiser. Bids for the art can be placed at: https://forms.gle/YYUFGX9TBaNPfJkT9 Come visit us to see it in person!

About the Artist:

Woody Poulard (aka GRNCH) is a Brooklyn-based artist/musician of Haitian descent whose work focuses on generative audio-reactive visual installations and performances.…

In case you missed the announcement at the previous Masks On Craft Night, we are prepping for our big annual fundraiser, The Interactive Show, that night. We’ll be masking up again on Wednesday June 19th.

Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. May 8th, 6PM.

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Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. February 28, 10AM.

Sign up here!

 

 

 

Heading north for Open Hardware Summit this year? Join NYC Resistor members Becky Stern, Kari Love, and friends for a talk on re-purposing discharged disposable vape parts. Becky will introduce the salvage process and how regulation had the unintended consequence of creating more e-waste, and Kari, David Rios, and Shuang Cai will talk about how they transformed them into rechargeable musical instruments!

Disposable vaping devices, like the ubiquitous Elfbar, are designed to become ubiquitous…

Our friends at the nonprofit woodworking studio SJSW are offering a class in woodworking. Students make a chair to take home. They’re great teachers; I learn something new every time I walk by!

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Learn the basics with Resistor member Raphael Abrams. We will create schematics, generate custom libraries and design a simple but complete physical layout, ready to order. February 28, 10AM.

Sign up here!