I'm in the Financial Times, a London Newspaper today!

Alongside this “new craft” movement is a second, more tech-savvy, branch of DIY made up of cool, collectivised city dwellers, seen in Berlin and Vienna, Seattle and New York. NYCResistor is, for example, a workshop space that since spring 2008 has been shared by 25 members dedicated to making cool stuff, from cocktail-serving robots (the Barbot) to automated artworks. “The members of NYCResistor can make anything they imagine,” enthuses co-founder Bre Pettis, star of more than 200 online tutorials. “In our culture, people expect things to come in boxes and solve their problems. But now we’re at a magical time in history. Technology has become so modular that you can make anything you want.”

Funding comes from teaching public classes in new-wave DIY skills, such as rapid prototyping and working with LEDs, and the space is occupied almost 24/7, since some members are also running full-time jobs as well.

Shayna Gentiluomo, a regular visitor to NYCResistor’s Thursday night open craft sessions – which are populated by knitters and needlepointers alongside the robotics and electronics enthusiasts – says the experience has allowed her to rediscover skills wasted in her job. “I studied painting but nearly went into electrical engineering,” she says. “This is great because it’s a way to draw the two together.”

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