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by Jake

i tried to use the wooden 3D printer and only the Y axis worked. i looked in the side and saw that three of the four motor driver boards are missing! WTF? does anyone know what happened to them? will you bring them back? -jake

11 years, 5 months

sudo TAZ 3d printer extruder catching

by Jake

the TAZ seems to work mostly fine but there is a problem where the filament extruder keeps stopping while it's trying to extrude - like the filament is too hard for it to push, so the motor doesn't have enough torque. the spring tensioners adjustment is not the problem - there is no adjustment point at which the motor doesn't either slip (and fail to push the filament) or catches and can't turn. if you keep hitting Extrude in the printer control program and you help the filament along it keeps going, but it can't continuously extrude without help - it goes and then gets stuck again. I can't figure out what the problem is. This is with the white filament and the nozzle is at 220 degrees which should be plenty hot. anyone have any ideas? -jake

11 years, 5 months

Art of electronics

by Romy＠snowyla

(see full image) I'm reviewing stacks & queues this week but @SudoRoom reminds me with the art of electronics that this is used for real world stuff Sent from my iPhone

11 years, 5 months

Lost extruder

by Adam Munich

Howdy hackers, Yesterday I left a box here in Sudo room to head a 3d printer extruder along with some other scraps in it. That was the extruder for my Taz. Did anybody see that box? Cheers, -Adam

11 years, 5 months

sudo discuss - could we use the noise bridge mailing list format with mime types?

by Romy Ilano

is there a way to include each email as an attached mime-type the way Noisebridge does it? I want to participate more but I get every email as a digest, and it's hard to scroll through the whole list and reply individually. Best, Romy ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 5 months

Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds - Boing Boing

by Romy＠snowyla

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/23/hedge-funds-buy-swathes-of-for.html?utm_co… Hedge funds buy swathes of foreclosed subprimes, force up rents, float rent-bonds When a giant hedge fund is bidding on all the foreclosed houses in a poor neighborhood, living humans don't stand a chance -- but that's OK, because rapacious investors make great landlords. Wall Street investors have bought more than 200,000 foreclosed houses in the past two years, bundling together the rents they generate into bonds that are just like subprime mortgage bonds, only without the pretense that the poor people who generate their payments have a hope of ever getting out from under their obligation to enrich the richest people in the world. Blackstone -- owner of Seaworld, Hilton Hotels, and the Weather Channel -- is the biggest player here, and when they come into town to buy up all the single-family properties, they price actual families out of the market. Their securitized rent payment bonds are backed by some of the biggest subprime criminals, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan. Hedge funds really epitomize compassionate landlording, too. When Blackstone buys in, it jacks up tenants' rents by as much as a third and immediately begins eviction proceedings against renters who can't pay. If there are any troubles with your payments, they assess fines against you and make you miss work to pay the rent and penalties in person. CaDonna Porter moved into an Invitation Homes property outside Atlanta with her children in September. When part of her monthly payment was rejected because she tried to use a debit card, the company demanded that she deliver the remaining amount in person, via certified funds, by 5 p.m. the following day or incur a $200 fee and face eviction. Porter took time off from work to deliver a money order in person, only to be informed that the payment had been rejected because it didn't include the late fee and an additional $75 insufficient funds fee. In a maddening string of emails, Invitation Homes repeatedly reminded Porter that it could file to evict her unless she paid the penalties. When she finally said that she would seek legal counsel, Invitation Homes agreed to accept her payment as "a one-time courtesy." Andrew Gallina, Invitation Homes' vice president for marketing, says it treats all of its renters equally: "Under the law, we're not allowed to make changes or exceptions. That's just basic fair housing." Invitation Homes has described its strategy as "a bet on America." Wall Street's Hot New Financial Product: Your Rent Check [Laura Gottesdiener/Mother Jones] Sent from my iPhone

11 years, 5 months

immigration startup weekend

by Romy Ilano

I'm not usually into hackathons and don't send stuff like that to this list but this is pretty cool https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-immigration-tickets-16092734803 WHY immigration? This country was built on a dream, and a belief that the course of our lives does not have to be determined by the country, culture, and socioeconomic status that we were all randomly born into. Immigration is a proven solution to this “unjust lottery” of life, but somewhere along the way we lost sight of that dream. Join us on May 29 and let's help bring back the American Dream, together. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 5 months

URGENT: Your sudo room payment is failing!

by Marc Juul

Gratipay (our payment provider) stopped working! We now have our own payment and membership system called sudo-humans: https://sudoroom.org/humans You should immediately sign up for an account! You should then go to your profile page, click edit, and set up a recurring payment! That's it! Thanks for helping sudo room stay afloat! More details: We are hard at work integrating the payment system with our upcoming improved building access control system, so it will not be long before payment or non-payment will directly affect your ability to access Omni and sudo room. If you for some reason prefer to pay in cash, then you can still do that by finding e.g. me and handing me tall stacks of green. If you have a work-trade agreement with sudo room then don't worry about it for now. We will send an email when sudo-humans support work-trade verification (basically you will need to find another member and have them log in and verify that you did the work. If you _really_ need to be fully anonymous (meaning that not even a couple of sudo room admins will be able to see who is paying) then you can wait for Gratipay to start working again, but please try to compensate your payments for the time that it has not been working (I believe two weeks so far). Gratipay will probably start working again at some point, so please check that you are not double-paying. sudo-humans is not just for payment, but for stuff like building access and finding members to work on projects with, but we are just starting out so if you want to help sudo-humans improve you can find the code here: https://github.com/sudoroom/sudo-humans Thank to substack for developing the core sudo-humans app! -- marc/juul

11 years, 5 months

spaz party

by Jake

SPAZ wants to throw a party in the downstairs again, like last First Friday! we should officially sponsor the event as Sudoroom, and get involved in the whole event. SPAZ people will bring the amplifiers and set up the party space (in the basement like last time) and make the whole event go smoothly. will Sudoroom officially sponsor the event? It will be a lot of fun. -jake

11 years, 5 months

FTP - Films 2 The People Short Film Fest at Omni!

by Noemie Serfaty

Hi Sudo ers! OptikAllusions is hosting an awesome short Film Fest/Fundraiser this Friday May 29th at the Omni! We have a really awesome lineup of short films by local folks. And Sarah will be serving her legendary home made gumbo. It would be awesome to see you there! Come have fun and support our unreasonable community media project to document/imagine the revolution! Here is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1596614607259252/ It starts at 7pm. See you there! Love and solidarity Noémie from OptikAllusions

11 years, 5 months

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