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Fwd: Operations Manager for Jacobs Hall makerspace at UC Berkeley

by Patrik D'haeseleer

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Roland Saekow <saekow(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:39 PM Subject: Operations Manager To: <info(a)counterculturelabs.org> Greetings from UC Berkeley! I am the current operations manager at UC Berkeley's largest makerspace, Jacobs Hall <http://jacobsinstitute.berkeley.edu/our-space/labs-and-equipment/>. We serve 1,200 students every semester from all majors across campus. I will be leaving my position and would like to share the job listing in case any of your members past or present would be interested. Founded just four years ago, it has been an honor helping to build the design community at Berkeley. Makerspace Operations Manager https://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/ Search for job # 27360 -- Roland Saekow Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation <http://jacobsinstitute.berkeley.edu/> College of Engineering | UC Berkeley

7 years, 2 months

Help me; I'm a new tech teacher - donations doubled

by Christine Hodges

Hello! This is Christine Hodges. You may or may not know me from the circles I move in: I'm a former tech worker, hackerspace user, meetup.com participant, effective altruism/rationality community adjacent, member of First Church Berkeley UCC. So I got a new job teaching technology at an elementary school in Oakland. I'd like to give my 230+ Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade students great, hands-on learning opportunities with electronics and coding: a STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). I have a plan to introduce electronics concepts, bring in physical computing, then tie that to software coding later in the school year. But I want students to have hands-on experiences first. This requires stuff like LEDs, batteries, electronic building blocks, etc. Thus I started a series of DonorsChoose.org projects to fundraise for these class materials. And guess what: some anonymous donors will match every donation so it cuts the cost in half! Yay! I think this matching will be available all this week, maybe longer, but I don't know. And now I'm asking you if you could please chip in while I have this matching offer. A $10 donation becomes $20. $100 becomes $200! 3 projects posted, many minds educated... 1) The #1 priority project is the basic electronics components and only needs $339 to be fully funded: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/intro-to-circuits/4347772/ 2) Electronic building blocks gets students creating at a higher level of abstraction - needs $221 https://www.donorschoose.org/project/electronic-building-blocks/4348639/ 3) Makey Makey devices bridge hardware to software - needs $385 https://www.donorschoose.org/project/from-circuits-to-coding-with-makey-mak… Thanks so much for your participation! Feel free to pass this along to potentially interested people. Christine

7 years, 2 months

[sudo room] wassuppp

by Adam Munich

huumooop xxxx - - - - Weblog: http://adammunich.com With great power comes great responsibility.

7 years, 2 months

Scuttle Party

by cel＠celehner.com

Dear Sudoers, Please join me and noffle this Sunday afternoon at the space to learn about and use Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). SSB is a peer-to-peer network and protocol for decentralized social media sharing and other applications. We will: - Answer questions about SSB - Show what the network has to offer - Help you install SSB software on your computer and get connected to the network - Troubleshoot any problems. @ Sudo Room 12pm-6pm, Sunday, August 11, 2019. SSB Gathering ID: %8kwkn1hB75LP9Pr67HjU03KwzTDChJju7oCbpVUgfFM=.sha256 Sincerely, ~cel (Charles E. Lehner)

7 years, 2 months

PyBay 2019 Maker Event

by Chris Matthews

Hi Sudoroom, I'm Chris, and I'm helping out with Pybay 2019. We're having a maker event the night of August 17 and I thought of SudoRoom. Pybay is a community-driven python conference in San Francisco, August 17 - 18. This year keynote speakers include Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and Raymond Hettinger, cPython core dev. Other notable speakers include Bryan Siepert from Adafruit and Rachel Thomas, cofounder of fast.ai. The maker event will let people showcase their homemade hardware/IOT projects. I'm interested in talking with any members who would like a table. The robot arm and sudo mesh projects both looked really interesting. Also, I do have some free tickets for nonprofits. So if either People's Open Network or Sudoroom are interested in having a table as a group, I would have a few free tickets available. Sincerely, Chris Matthews makers(a)pybay.com Pybay 2019: https://pybay.com/ Maker Event: https://pybay.com/events/ [https://pybay.com/site_media/static/new/img/twitter-card.90e166f09eac.jpg]<https://pybay.com/events/> PyBay2019<https://pybay.com/events/> One of the things that makes PyBay such a fun conference is the hallway track, where casual sharing with another amazing developer inspires novelty solutions to problems, useful open-source contributions, or a new friendship. pybay.com

7 years, 3 months

Last Month's Income & Expenses

by Omni Commons

7 years, 3 months

Mopped Sudoroom Last night

by Robert Chu

Hey guys,. I did a basic mopping of Sudoroom last night (without moving furniture), and was able to remove a lot of silt dust that was everywhere. I also only used water, as my objective was to capture dust. There is still big particles the mopping could not pick up; yet sweeping will resolve. I also had to circulate five mop buckets because it was so dusty. It also had taken about an hour and a half. It would be good in the near future to have a Sudo Mop party day, with volunteers, to help move furniture back and forth, and have at least 2-3 people mopping. This would be a very effective way to bring all of the dust to an optimal minimum. The time would be shortened with another mopped as well :-). I'll spear head a near future day when I less busy. Cheers.

7 years, 3 months

weekly soldering workshops at sudoroom

by Jake

Thanks to a huge recent donation, sudoroom now has a TON of materials for hosting electronics soldering workshops for newbies wanting to build arduinos, mignonette games http://www.mignonette-game.com and TV-B-Gones http://www.mignonette-game.com and many other cool kits! The donation included a ton of snips (we were almost out of them!) and soldering irons and probably a lot of other important things. I already nominally host "Hardware Hacking Tuesdays" and I am totally down to support people wanting to build these kits on those tuesdays, but I think we should consider scheduling weekly events just focused on building kits, if people have the time to dedicate to hosting such events. Either way, anyone who is interested should participate in sorting and labeling the donations and ideally trying to get the parts for the above-described kits in order so that people can grab them, buy them from sudoroom, and then build them. thanks again for the donation!!!!!!!!

7 years, 3 months

anybody have a plasma cutter?

by Yardena Cohen

We're dismantling the old stove in the Omni kitchen. Does anybody have a handheld plasma cutter we can borrow?

7 years, 3 months

Laser system overhaul success.

by Robert Chu

Hello Sudo room I went through the laser cutter system and environment thoroughly, and we are now able to use it at 24/7. there are a couple of loose connections inside that I solded alligator clips to to clip onto the laser itself. I replaced the 4-ft water pump hoses with 6'1 so that there's slack with the laser system and water canister. I cleaned out the water canister a bit and replaced the water. Ripped out all the old tape that partially covered some of the gaps in the ventilation system. I'd redone it thoroughly with new foil tape. I have truncated all excess hosing on the short ventilation run for better air flow. I also compressed all of the excess hosing on the larger run for better airflow as well. All of the slack has been removed from both sides. I ventilation leak test by engaging the laser into a thick piece of wood for about 30 seconds, which has also cause flames to be admitted from it while firing. The test has passed as their husband no smell of of smoke inside Sudo To with it on for that period of time. I am full of excitement, ambition, joy, and hackery, to let everybody know that our MLE-40 laser system is back online. it hasn't been too long because it hasn't been done again until now. 🤗😆🙃❤️

7 years, 3 months

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