Image credit: Matt Joyce (CC-BY-2.0)

*** UPDATE: Snowpocalypse 2018 will temporarily bury Brooklyn in snow, so this event will be postponed to a later date. Stay tuned to find out when! ***

Hacks/Hackers will be bringing a digital security installfest to NYC Resistor on March 21. Hacks/Hackers brings journalists (hacks) and technologists (hackers) together to explore how to use technology to find and tell new stories and how to filter and visualize all the information around us everyday.

Our Hacks/Hackers hosts will introduce the special security challenges facing journalists, then we’ll break up into workshop tables with volunteers to cover specific tools and topics such as:

• How to prevent doxing via social media best practices and data removal
• Password managers
• Different kinds of two-factor authentication and how to choose the right one for you
• Signal, WhatsApp and other alternatives to phone calls and regular text messaging
• Plus other topics based on the interest of attendees

NOTE: Although this even is open to the public, you must RSVP ($12.24) to attend. Light dinner included.

If you’ve never been to Resistor before, check our Participate page for more info, including the Code of Conduct. If you’ve never been a CryptoParty-like event before, you can find out more on the CryptoParty Guiding Principles page.

Price:

$12.24 RSVP here.

When:

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 6:30PM – 9:00PM

Where:

NYC Resistor (between Bergen and Dean)
87 3rd Ave. Floor 4 (use this OSM link if you’re Richard Stallman)
Brooklyn, NY 11217

We got a great little email on Sunday asking if our Vendy was available for public dispensing. There happened to be a pile of us here hacking on Sunday afternoon, so Nicole dropped by, fed $15 into Machine Uno and get herself a teensy board. On Thursday, Shanshan came round to Craft Night and we got to see what they made:

They didn’t get any action shots of the teensy 🙁 . Nice Arduino though.

Photo by Will Sherman/ANIMAL

Two or three of your friendly neighborhood hackers helped beautify New York this morning with the opening of the second annual “Holiday Gift to NYC Show” curated by Mat Benote and Jordan Seiler. Among the pieces not to be missed were Jessica Jade Jacob’s “Mr. Mustache”.

Read all about it and see more of Will Sherman’s terrific photos on ANIMAL

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A couple of us helped beautify New York City today. We were part of an effort organized by the Public Ad Campaign to create over 100 installations of art in place of illegal billboards that blight our pedestrian commute.

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The awesome teaching team of Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi ran a workshop today on Wireless Wearables. They covered what wireless is and isn’t (“calling it wireless is about as accurate as calling it tomatoless”), how to choose materials for soft circuits, and common problems when configuring the XBee. They rolled out the new Lilypad XBee mount, designed specifically for radio communication on your personal area network. Now your hat can tell your shoes what’s going on up there.

Folks paired up and got wireless morse code working with just a Lilypad, an XBee, a 9v battery and one LED. No microcontroller required. The circuits were stitched into gloves for secret chatter among hackers: the perfect communication method for CW conversant ninja HAMs.

You can watch two test circuits light each other up and check out a closeup of the Lilypad Xbee after the jump.
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