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Thursdays are craft night at NYCR and this week we had all sorts of things going on. People were making the coolest crafts! (More posts about deadly soft crafted robots and knitted scarfs made with number sets later.)

Danielle arrived with homemade marshmallows and it took about 15 seconds to whip out the Jacob’s Ladder and roast them with 15,000 volts of electricity. They tasted good that way too!

Via Laughing Squid

How can you resist? – Link

Last night we held our first ever party to raise funds for rent. The place was full of smiling enthusiastic smiles eagerly drinking the drinks that the barbot was pouring and stirring.

Thanks to everyone who came out to support us! We’re going to be able to pay rent this month!

Big thanks also go out to blip.tv who sponsored the wonderful fluids coming out of the barbot’s liquid emitting fingers (LEF)!

Make sure to check out Bill’s photos and Bre’s photos to check out the awesome party action!

Learn how to turn virtual 3D models into tangible paper models! This class will give you the basics for taking a pre-existing 3D model and get it ready for becoming a physical object. We will use Blender to learn to “decimate”, which gives 3D models that much sought after lo-tek aesthetic, and from there take our finished virtual forms into Pepakura. This program will “unfold” our mesh into a flat plane complete with tabs and allow us to cut, paste, and fold our way to a physical manifestation of a virtual object!

If you have previous experience with 3D and have a model you would already like to make out of paper, please come with that model. Otherwise there will be a compilation of found 3D models to choose from. Please bring a laptop with you and install Blender and Pepakura prior to arriving. We’ll be printing your models out on Card stock which will be provided but that said, please bring a glue stick, a pair of scissors, an xacto, a ruler and something like cardboard or those cutting mats so that you can make your cuts on without defacing the lovely tables in the classroom.

Sun Apr 27 12:30 – 15:30
$75 plus $5 materials fee for card stock and printing stuff out.
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