Jun 11, 2009 1 Comment 
A bunch of my friends over at Hackerbot Labs and Intellectual Ventures have been testing a phantom camera by video-taping quarter shrinking.
Very much worth a watch! Go check it out on their blog!
In 1992 I was on a flight to Japan putting together a scrapbook. I had been the runner up for 3 scholarships to go to Japan and so I came up with a different plan. I would save money by living in the woods of The Evergreen State College and I would ask everyone I knew to subscribe to my newsletter from Japan. It worked. I raised $5000 dollars and lived for 5 months in Kobe and Osaka in 1992.
Check out all the photos in my Flickr Photo Set
This scrapbook is a snapshot of the life I had been living and is a mix of pictures from my high school years and my first year of college.
Jun 6, 2009 1 Comment Joe Soko stopped by NYCResistor to take the class entitled "Fire the LAZZZOR!" For every class, each student makes something that they want. Joe had worked in a knife store at some point and got his mind set on a butterfly knife, but with a comb. He used inkscape to model it and then lasercut it and then put it together with some custom length nails that he cut with the bolt cutter part of a wire cutter. It works great and don't mess with him when he says "Don't mess with me or I will COMB you!" If you want to make your own, the designs are up on thingiverse!
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May 24, 2009 Post a Comment 
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.”
If you're in London and can snap a pic, that would be awesome!
We got black ABS plastic into the MakerBot store. Now you can make black or white objects with your MakerBot. We had this plastic custom manufactured and it's beautiful, extrudes great, and has a really nice silky sheen to it. Marius and Philipp of the Metalab in Vienna take responsibility for this wonderful robot stunt. They have been visiting and they set up the MakerBot named Martha Vader to sing the imperial march and make a Darth Vader Head. The sound is coming from the stepping of the steppers. Each step of the motor creates a square wave and when you line them up at the right speeds, music is possible
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