Tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, Feb 21) is our Knitting and Crochet Make-A-Long. Yay!
Want to learn to knit? Great, we’ll teach you! Already know how to knit or crochet? Awesome! Bring your projects and come hang out with us. Want to tackle a new technique or work through a complicated pattern? That’s cool too.
Bring yourself, we’ll provide the yarn / needles / etc. See you there! And remember, all of our classes are listed on Eventbrite.
Want to learn to conjure gold? Of course you do.
OK, while we can’t technically teach you alchemy, we can teach you how to wield the magic of electrochemistry! We have a DIY Gold Plating workshop coming up on Saturday, February 20th. Bring your own jewelry, learn some awesome stuff about electrochemistry, and leave with your gold-plated jewelry. You can even gold plate an entire Apple Watch!
Jewelry in this class means: small pendants, earrings, rings, anything that is metal and less than an inch and a half in diameter. Metals that work are stainless steel, copper, brass, nickel, and silver (but not aluminum). We won’t be gold plating chains.
This class is brought to you by Eric Knoll, creator of the Midas Touch kit. Check out the Kickstarter video to learn more.
My main project of 2015 is finally done. I wrote a book! Learning React Native is a practical guide to using JavaScript to build mobile apps for iOS and Android, taking you from the very basic starter application through deploying to the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.
You can get a copy at Amazon or directly from O’Reilly. (The O’Reilly ebook is DRM-free.)
Before you ask: the animal is a ring-tailed possum! And nope, I wasn’t involved in choosing it. If you want to talk to me about JavaScript / mobile / React / etc, come find me at Craft Night.
Pssh, Valentine’s Day. Obviously the worst holiday, except for the February 15th chocolate sales. Those are pretty cool.
Join us in grumpiness on February 7th for an Anti-V-Day class! Ever had the urge to create a voodoo doll of that one ex with glowing “ow I just got stabbed” eye action? This is your chance! Learn how to make a soft circuits doll that lights up when you stick a pin in it’s cold dead heart.
Tickets available via Eventbrite.
TLDR; we have an awesome vector game design class coming up on Sunday, February 7th. Tickets available now!
Do you identify as a woman and have an interest in making games that are playable across web-capable devices? If so, NYCR & Code Liberation invite you to attend our Vector Graphics Game Development workshop using Processing!
If you’ve ever played an original Asteroids arcade game and thought “wish we could still make games that looked like that” Now we can! Trammell Hudson from NYC Resistor has developed some hardware that will allow us to drive the vector monitors to play a whole series of emulator games. We thought it’d be super fun to create original content for these gorgeous retro-graphic displays and were so excited we did a talk about it at this year’s Chaos Communications Congress: 32C3
This class is a collaboration with Code Liberation and is open to attendees who identify as women. As always, we ask that attendees read & abide by our Code of Conduct.
NAIL ART zomg!
We’ll be having a nail art make-a-long on Sunday. Bring your nail polish, and get excited. RSVP on the Eventbrite page.
Never been to one of our Make-Alongs? A Make-Along is a self-guided craft workshop where participants learn new skills, explore new materials, and make great things! As always with NYCR events, we ask that participants read & abide by our code of conduct. Thanks!
From nail art to kokedama to pumpkin hacking, we’ve got you covered in 2016. Our Make-Along schedule is now live on our Eventbrite, so you can get your tickets now.
Make-Alongs are self-guided craft workshops where participants learn new skills, explore new materials, and make great things! We try to keep our Make-Along ticket prices low, just enough to cover materials. For 2016, we’ve got some awesome stuff planned:
January 17: Nail Art
February 21: Knitting and Crochet
March 20: Egg Dioramas
April 17: Book Binding
May 15: Terrariums
June 19: Kokedama
July 17: Summer Camp Crafts & Picnic
September 18: Costumes
October 16: Pumpkin Hacking
November 20: Pop-Ups
December 18: Dioramas, Mobiles, & Elementary School Crafts
Get your tickets & see the full class schedule now on Eventbrite.
NYC Resistor will be open as usual for Craft Night on Thursday, December 24th. Woohoo!
Monday nights are one of our public nights at NYC Resistor. Every Monday is Laser Night, and every other Monday is Knit Knight, too! So many things!
Don’t know how to knit? That’s awesome, we have needles and spare yarn, we can teach you! Just swing by around 7:30pm this Monday, December 14th, and say hello.
Want to learn something new? Some of us are working on making knitted scale mail, and we can teach you that, too…
If you’ve never been to Resistor before, check our Participate page for more info, including the Code of Conduct. Hope to see you there!
Our ever-popular introductory Arduino class is back for another round! This one’s on December 5th. Our last class sold out quickly, so get your tickets early.
If you’ve been wanting to get into electronics but don’t know where to start, this class is for you! Learn to use an Arduino to control lights and sound, and how to combine sensors with output. Get your tickets here.
No previous electronics experience required. For programming experience, you should be comfortable with for loops and variables.