A PARCEL CONTAINING 16 POUNDS OF NFC RFID WRISTBANDS WAS SHIPPED TO THE
OMNI A WEEK OR TWO AGO. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO NIC WEIDINGER BUT IS INTENDED
FOR SUDOROOM HACKING.
I HAVE NOT SEEN IT NOR HEARD MENTION OF IT, SO I AM GUESSING IT IS SITTING
IN THE OMNI NEAR THE FRONT DOOR SOMEWHERE SINCE NOBODY KNEW WHERE TO PUT
IT. IF YOU FIND IT, OR HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF IT, PLEASE WRITE BACK.
<S>THESE RFID TAGS WILL BE USED FOR PERMANENTLY IDENTIFYING COLLECTIVE
MEMBERS AND WILL BE NECESSARY TO OPEN DOORS AND BATHROOM STALLS. YOUR
RFID WRISTBAND WILL BE LINKED TO YOUR WIKI PAGE AND PRIVILEGE KEYBASE.</S>
THESE RFID TAGS WILL BE FOR ALL KINDS OF FUN EXPERIMENTATION AND GENERAL
RFID HACKING, AND CAN BE READ BY MOST MODERN PHONES. THEY HAVE
USER-WRITABLE DATA SPACE IN THEM AND THE POSSIBLITIES ARE LIMITLESS.
WHERE ARE THEY?
-JAKE
P.S. TODAY IS CAPS-LOCK DAY.
Hello,
David and Alice have found a way to get us a free replacement compressor for the walk-in freezer at omni. But the way involves manual labor and we need your help. We have to help remove the replacement compressor and the entire walk-in that it is currently attached to from a bar in San Francisco. David, Joe, and I helped Alice with it today. It will require at least 4 more hours of work. If you are available to help tomorrow (the 23rd), please let us know. Sorry this is so last minute, but we do need your help.
Thanks,
Ben
Hi Art/Tech/Science Folks -
I wanted to share with you two last minute events the end of the week. Would love to see some of you.
THURSDAY ArtBuzz: Games about the Art World6:30 - 9:00 Betti Ono in Oakland (BART friendly)Basically these are drinking games for the art community to laugh at themselves. Free if you use my code DanielleFriend
THURSDAY - SATURDAYLeonardo Art Science Technology (LAST) ExpoThe Lab in San FranciscoHighlight - Symposium Saturday 10/25 2 - 6 pmSpeakers' biographies: Chris McKay, Bruno Olshausen, Christine Peterson, Charles Chiu, Piero Scaruffi
Introduction by Leonardo ISAST
2:45pm Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Institute for Neuroscience) on Neuroscience
3:30pm Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Nanotechnology
4:15pm Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on Infectious Diseases and the Ebola epidemics
5:00pm Piero Scaruffi (Author) on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity2:00pm Chris McKay (NASA Ames) on Space Exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Anyways, I hope you can make it! Please share with your communities.
Best,
Danielle Siembieda
siembieda.com
we got the embroidery machine working!!! it's totally awesome.
tl;dr we need needles! who will order this ebay item?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/25-MEISTERGRAM-INDUSTRIAL-EMBROIDERY-MACHINE-NEEDLE…
it takes a little coordination though, because it's an industrial sewing
machine with a clutch pedal to engage the motor - and it's very powerful.
So it will sew very rapidly and you have to steer the needle around the
pattern at a rate matching the sewing rate.
it's kindof like driving a ferrari in that way.
anyway, it came with a single needle and it is broken now. We need more
needles!!! we have plenty of everything else.
it uses weird needles - they are the normal length (1.5") but their upper
shank is 1/16" diameter which is smaller than standard sewing machine
needles.
http://www.sewingmantra.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sewing-machine-needl…
the machine is a Meistergram model M'100 and it uses the same needles as
the M700 / M800 like the ones in the ebay item are for.
if you order these needles, write to the list so we don't end up with 50,
although i'm sure we'll need them if we use it enough.
-jake
Dana and I have a grand idea for setting up easily programmable LED
displays at Noisebridge in a massive matrix. What we need are donations of
panels, which will be purchased and shipped by Mitch on his China trip. See
our nicely organized wiki page for details, source code, and more info.
https://noisebridge.net/wiki/LED
It still reflects the old address.
Thanks, cheers, and HAX THE PLANET!!!
- RAYC _ RAYC .. RAYC
P.S. Also plan on syncing to work on the eeg in the near future. :D
Our inventory tracking system is now up and running again!
Go to:
http://stuff.sudo
Create labels by filling out the form and hitting "save and print"
(remember to look at the preview of the label before printing, you have to
manually hit enter in the description textbox to create newlines).
Stick the label on the item, and you can either scan the QR code to go to
the item's wiki page, or look at the ID on the printed label and for e.g.
ID 42, go to:
http://o.sudoroom.org/42
When you print a label it will come out of the label printer next the the
wooden 3D printer. If it doesn't work, ensure that the label printer is on
(it should have a green light) and connected.
The software has been updated to the latest codebase so it should crash
less and will automatically restart if it does crash.
The code is here:
https://github.com/sudoroom/labitrack
Unfortunately (or fortunately) our old database was lost in the mists of
moving (or maybe it wasn't but I couldn't find it) but the wiki pages
remain, so it should be easy enough to create redirects.
--
marc/juul
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not your fault, it's not anybody else's fault either. I really
> hope the confusion isn't interpreted as bad faith or a lack of
> support. We all need to get better at that, of course, but also get
> better at forgiving each others' mistakes, in the spirit of jubilee.
I want to just reiterate this in light of the past few days of
conversation. I have heard a lot of different narratives about what
happened with Backspace over the past few months. I don't claim to
know exactly what happened anymore, but it seems to boil down to a
huge string of communication failures that resulted in Backspace
paying for space to operate, yet having no space until now.
At Thursday's meeting, the subject of past-due utility bills came up,
but it seems apropos to mention that lots of Omni groups have not paid
utility bills, or even rent, and one of the amazing potential things
about Omni is our capacity to be a non-evil landlord - each according
to their ability and their need.
It's clear that most backspace folks are WORKERS whose primary concern
is being able to see their clients and students and make a living
wage. It's also clear to me that the primary benefit of having
Backspace at Omni is NOT the money they'd bring in, but the new
people, energy and perspectives. It would REALLY SUCK if we lost all
that by fighting with them over money.
Other than money, the only other concern I'm hearing about this
proposal is about space. While I have expressed concerns about
"enclosure" in the past, Backspace's plans for the den or "storage
room" are NOT enclosures. They're stewardship of commons. This is
exactly the model I always dreamed of for our building!
Finally, there's BAPS. I think it might help to separate BAPS'
pragmatic need to host many evening classes from BAPS' position as a
roving "nomadic" group without dedicated space, and both from the
concept of "enclosure". Because it seems to me like Backspace's
pragmatic needs are similar to BAPS - to assemble in spaces and occupy
them for a finite period, for classes and 1-on-1 sessions. So what are
the ways we can frame this as a collaboration rather than a
competition?
I think these problems would get solved a lot faster if we were all
able to trust each other, the best path to building trust is for
Backspace to begin operating at the Omni ASAP, and the best way for
that to happen is to show support and forgiveness all around. Thanks.
