Brooklyn’s own NYC Resistor has made it to the finals of the Red Bull Creation competition, being held Sunday in McCarren Park
McCarren Park
North 12th St. at Bedford Ave., Williamsburg
Sunday, July 10, free, 3:00 – 7:00
www.redbullusa.com
The future will unfold on Sunday afternoon as sixteen teams will gather in McCarren Park for the finals of the Red Bull Creation challenge. Each team, including Brooklyn’s own Buildface, NYC Resistor, and Alpha One Labs, has been given seventy-two hours to design something that can move a one-hundred-pound person from point A to point B, without the use of fossil fuels. The only other rules involve incorporating an Arduino controller and keeping the size of the creation somewhere between a bread box and a box truck. The bulk of the work is currently taking place in a hackerspace laboratory, with the results being displayed on Sunday between 3:00 and 7:00 in the former public pool and concert venue in Williamsburg. Judging how “useful, imaginative, and inspiring” each creation is will be Hackett, Simone Davalos, Flash Hopkins, and Glenn Derenie, deciding who goes home with cash and technological tools. The free event will also feature live performances from That 1 Guy at 4:50 and Eclectic Method at 6:20.