We’ve gotten an awesome space in Brooklyn, and as of April 5th, we’re going to be starting classes. If you’ve ever wanted to get started with electronics, this is the time. We’ll be beginning with 101 and 102 classes in soldering and electronics, and I’ll be honest that I’ll actually be taking a spot in some of these classes myself to get my basic skills ready for more advanced stuff in the months to come. Bre’s also going to be running a class on “video basics for people who make things“, and Justin’s going to be teaching a class in freaking gameboy programming. How cool is that?

We’ve created NYC Resistor to help build the NYC hardware hacking community, so we’re running these classes extremely cheaply – $25 per class hour. Because we’re keeping them cheap, we really need to fill the classes to keep NYC Resistor running. Please, spread this around, tell you friends, and sign up to help us grow the NYC tech community.

We’ve all gotten excited about this project, and Dave has agreed to open up his code and document everything, but needs a little help creating the schematics, etc. Zack ‘Hoeken’ Smith of RepRap will be giving a demo on Eagle at the next NYCResistor meeting so we can create the schematic, and we’ll be documenting this whole project from start to finish then.

Soon after that, we’re looking to create a kit for this project to make it easy for people to duplicate it at home. It’s a great project for learning audio processing, breadboarding using arduino, shift registers, and how to make and use an LED matrix. That, and it’s just cool. I want one of these for my desk.