I just whipped up this design in inkscape. Inkscape isn’t too hard to use if you’re not measuring things. I just eyeballed everything, which required some tweaking. I outputted a dxf file, uploaded it to my new little archive of public lazzzor files. Then on the lazzzor computor, I imported it into CorelDraw and set the vector settings for cardboard which is 30/50/100, turned on the compressor for the air assist, turned on the filter, screamed “FIRE THE LASER!” and pushed the green button.

Martin sent us a dino pattern to celebrate our laser. I made a regular size dinosaur, but Kelly made a tiny tinysaur!

Where do you hide all the best object files on the internet? We want to play with them!

The tinysaur has been spotted again! – Link

Don’t have a laser and want to take a Tinysaur home with you? They’re now available on Etsy.

A year ago, NYCResistor was conceived by a few folks around a table in the C4 hacker space in Cologne Germany. We needed a hacker space in NYC and we started building the infrastructure for our space by getting the website started, getting a jabber server up, and putting together email lists. A few months later we had 9 people committed to the idea and we incorporated so we could have a collective checking account for paying bills. A few months after that, we moved into our space in Brooklyn.

This hacker space thing is growing. It seems like every day new hacker spaces are popping up on the hackerspaces.org site.

This group is a really special blend of smarts, respect, consideration, and genuine friendship. It feels really special that exactly one year later from conception, we’ve collectively invested in a laser cutter. We still have to pay it off, but we’re doing it together. We also like cake.

This is required watching for everyone at NYCResistor. Do YOU shake hands with danger?

We are in desperate need of an old skool teletype machine. These were used to distribute and communicate information across copper wires for a long time. The network they ran on has been long gone, but we need one for a project. If you can donate it to us, we’ll hold you in our heart forever. If you can sell it to us, we’ll pay you a reasonable amount! Ham radio folks sometimes have these. If you know anyone who’s got one gathering dust, we would like to bring it back to life!