Do you work on projects and want to share them with the world in video? In this class Bre Pettis will cover the basics of using video to document and share your project and get you started shooting, editing, exporting, and publishing your own videos. If you’ve never done any video work or know the basics, but want to learn some tips and tricks, this is the class for you! If you have some experience with video, but want to get tips and tricks for publishing to the internet, this will also be a good class for you! We’ll make a video together in class so you can see the process of making and publishing a video first hand.

Sign up! – Link

For this class please bring the following:
– Something you’ve made for show and tell. Could be anything!
– Optional: Video camera or stills camera that shoots video.
– Optional: Laptop

Date – Sunday, April 27, 2008
Time – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost – $50
Location – NYCResistor (Map)
Make sure to check out all the other NYCResistor classes! – Link

Bre Pettis creates new media at Etsy.com and made a weekly video weekly in 2006 and 2007.

The last hope is a hacker convention in NYC and they just put out their call for participation. A good chunk of it seems to be about hackerspaces, so we’re going to have to show up and represent. It’s July 18th – 20th.

Do you have a lab, factory, warehouse, or other “hacker space”? Do you know there are other hackers in your area who want to build one? The Last HOPE is building the first “hackerspace village” to help bring together existing project spaces and inspire efforts to build them. Show hackers from around the world how you built your space, what you’re doing with it, or what you would do if you had one! Learn about, build, and help grow the global hackerspace movement. E-mail [email protected] with some details about your space or plans for building one! – Link

We’ve acquired a space and our core group is getting stuff set up in the space. Flickr Set Link

We are beginning our search for a space for our club. Here’s our criteria:

+Multiple rooms for breakout sessions, video games, and separate meetings.
+A big space for presentations, general work, with a white wall for projection and a big table.
+Closet for servers.
+Windows for blinkenlight style projects.
+A kitchen
+A shower
+A benevolent landlord
+Tolerant neighbors

For location, we’re open to most places as long as it’s convenient via transit and not creepy. Mostly right now we’re looking in dumbo because a bunch of our core members live in the Park Slope area and it’s super close to Manhattan.

Should we add anything else to the criteria?

Got any leads?

Update: Christian Decker created the dreamy floorplan above!

What if we all had a ham radio license? We could be anywhere in NYC and have an audio backchannel via repeater. If there was a disaster, we could coordinate. We could set up aprs data transfer over radio to connect at a rocking 1200 baud over radio waves! I’ve used handy talkies for basic communication and gps data transfer over aprs during the ahab project and having a ham radio license is super handy.

I think it would be awesome if some folks in the group got their license. Here’s how to do it.

1. Download the powerpoints from the microhams and study! The basic license is called the “technician” license. – Link to study materials

2. Take your test! It appears the easiest place to get your test will be in Brooklyn on March 4th, which gives you lots of time to study.

04-Mar-2008
Sponsor: KINGS COUNTY RA
Time: 7:00 PM (No walk-ins)
Contact: ROBERT V SAN GIULIANO
(718)852-2030
VEC: ARRL/VEC
Location: GUILD FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
260 68TH ST
WWW.KC2RA.COM/VE.HTML
REGISTER BY SUNDAY BEFORE EXAM
BROOKLYN, NY 11220

If you’re feeling ambitious, go to this one!

17-Dec-2007
Sponsor: COLUMBIA UNIV VE TEAM ARC
Time: 6:30 PM (Walk-ins allowed)
Contact: ALAN CROSSWELL
(212)854-3754
Email: [email protected]
VEC: ARRL/VEC
Location: WWW.W2AEE.COLUMBIA.EDU/CUARC-EXAMS.HTML
2960 BROADWAY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
115 HAVEMEYER HALL
NEW YORK, NY 10027

Painting above is by Thomas Hurley III. – Link