On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:29 PM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
> i'm curious how many meetups we have regrouped at 4799 after the move. i
> noticed js meetup is now happening at a bar about a block from our old spot.
Yeah, and the Oakland Privacy Working Group seems to be meeting at Impact Hub.
I think it's partly the disruption of the move, and partly the
location. 2141 was more centrally located in the city.
We should accept that some groups will decide other places are better
for them, and find the new groups that do want to meet at our new
space. There will be a lot of them!
> i hope
> we find a solid footing in the new neighborhood and keep welcoming new
> members and visiting groups a priority. cheers.
Agreed!
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> HUGE shout out to all the people who helped but up and clear stuff
> from the CCL side of the Bocci room during the last couple of days!
>
> Now that we have room, CCL will continue cleaning and have a very
> active moving-stuff-in session on Friday eve! Yay! Noise will
> happen. Please schedule accordingly.
This is exciting! Yay! I can't wait to see the new CCL space.
HUGE shout out to all the people who helped but up and clear stuff
from the CCL side of the Bocci room during the last couple of days!
Now that we have room, CCL will continue cleaning and have a very
active moving-stuff-in session on Friday eve! Yay! Noise will
happen. Please schedule accordingly.
Thanks,
Cere
i have visited two hackerspaces here in Toronto, including
http://hacklabs.to
and
http://torontotoollibrary.com
and it's clear that a hackerspace needs a laser cutter. Sudoroom doesn't
have one yet, so we should start thinking about which one we will get.
I heard we had $12,000.00 too much in the bank, and here at TTL they have
a HUGE laser cutter called the Lasersaur. It's a kit, sortof, but it's a
very serious machine. It uses a 100 watt laser! and that means it can
cut through 3/4" plywood (in multiple passes)
http://www.lasersaur.com/
okay maybe we're not ready for something like this quite yet, but when
we're ready we should keep it in mind. We can skip over the step of
getting a cheap lame cutter like those other hackerspaces.
speaking of other hackerspaces, hacklabs has one from Universal Laser
Systems that they got off Craigslist for $500 because the controller was
fried. They built a motor control system (the hard way) and then they had
a nice laser cutter! I think it's 25 watts.
-jake
Hello Sudoroomers. I spoke to some of you in person and they recommended i
use the listserv to speak to more of you at once. I am *NOT* a member of
the listserv so if you respond to my message *please* email me off list at
thegayscience(a)gmail.com.
I'm looking for someone with an interest in and operant knowledge of
robotics who can help me build an unguided, fast-moving robotic filing
cabinet on wheels. My intention is to battle it with a hammer, naked, in a
crowded room. I intend to get injured, but not as injured as the filing
cabinet.
I am looking for someone who can help me create this-not someone who
can provide guidance or advice. I'm afraid the learning curve is just too
steep for me, and i'm too busy, between working full time, participating in
the growth of Omnispace and developing a (seperate, unrelated) dance
project.
I would provide all the necessary materials.
The filing cabinet would have to move fast enough to hurt me, but not
fast enough to *really* hurt me. It must be unguided because its necessary
that 1. i am battling it and not a human user somewhere and 2. It must have
the potential to injure my audience as well. It must have a minimum of
three axes of movement. Other than that the sky is the limit.
I'm willing to discuss compensation, that is money, for your help.
If i have piqued your interest, email me back and we can meet (i'm at
omni space often) and i can provide more details/rationale if you need
that.
Thanks!
-Kevin
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/noisebridge-reboot-2014/x/115618
Please spread the word!
Noisebridge is a preeminent hackerspace that helped start the international hackerspace movement! We've won awards, we host hundreds of people each week, we have lots of free classes and workshops every day. We're always open, and there area always way cool people at Noisebridge working and playing on way cool projects. Everyone is welcome! After 7 years, we're now improving our infrastructure for the next many years. Our IndieGoGo campaign will help fund this much needed improvement.
Best,
Mitch.
Marc and I did some spot checks for lead in the paint on the CCL side of
the Bocce ball court, including some of the heavily peeling parts on the
North and East wall, and some specks we managed to knock off the ceiling
with a tennis ball.
*No lead in any of the 6 different samples we checked!* Yay! Highly
surprising for a building this age...
We used Lead Check swabs
<https://www.google.com/search?q=lead+check&tbm=shop> by 3M - you should be
able to find them at most paint stores and home improvement stores for
around $10 for two swabs. You might want to get some to test other spaces,
and we may still want to get an official lead inspection at some point. But
so far, this does look very promising...
We also poured two plates to test for mold. Again, around $10 per kit
<https://www.google.com/search?q=pro-lab+mold+test+kit&tbm=shop>, but you
need to pay an extra $40 if you want a lab to identify the specific mold
species. We'll let you know what we find...
Patrik
There were reports of silverfish in the bocce ball court. I have no idea if
anyone tried to address it, but it sounds like they did.
I would put this to sudo-discuss -
Best,
David
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM, ahnon <ahnon(a)ahnon.org> wrote:
> Did someone spray a bug spray of some sort in the bocce ball court? It is
> seriously not habitable in there for me right now.
>
> Bad for lab:
> http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/BMBL5_appendixG.pdf
> Bad for people: hack, cough, sputter choke
>
> and definitely a thing about which there should be agreement.
>
>
