sudo-discuss September 2014

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ALL HANDS CALL TODAY/TONITE: HELP LOAD 17' TRUCK WITH OUR DEBRIS

by David Keenan

Hi All. Not much notice but there is a 17' rental truck outside for general omni debris removal. It needs to be loaded up with: - Excess garbage (several bags) - Construction debris from bathroom repair (lots) - Ceiling tiles from ballroom (these are light, so may want to go in last/on top) - Stuff from Sudo that sudo doesn't want (the present 'to go away' piles) - Stuff frrom basement that we don't want/need - All City of Berkeley-stamped grey garbage cans probably should be returned since Waste Management does not pick them up and they fill with garbage. No one is really here and I am starting to do it by myself and would appreciate help. If I do this then I can't work on the bathroom, which needs to be done by Friday. All the waste needs to be driven to the following places tomorrow AM & returned by 12:30pm - Commercial Waste & Recycling by the Colesium (they open real early) - E-waste place (in berkeley I think) for all e-waste - the Oakland Dump tomorrow AM and returned by 12:30. We need to generally remove junk from here that we don't need as this really is required by fire - it can't be a total mess in the basement or any area to be (re)inspected. We have a general mission of clearing out junk from the omni to comply. This was specifically mentioned by the fire inspector - everything should look like its 'in its place' (his words.) Any and all help appreciated. David

11 years, 1 month

Particapatory Budgeting Conference

by refugia

Anyone going to this? It's 200ish bucks to attend. http://www.pbconference.org/

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Fun!

by Vicky Knox

A friend of a friend made this silly website... http://www.databass.biz/ Sorry to add to your Internet clutter...I'm in a rabbit hole of my own! :P

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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] NEED Alaskan Chainsaw Mill

by Vicky Knox

Any chance? Original message here: https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/sfchalkboard/2014-09/msg00068.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2014-09-14 21:29 GMT-07:00 Subject: [sfchalkboard] NEED Alaskan Chainsaw Mill To: sfchalkboard <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hey everyone, This might be far fetched, but does anyone have an Alaska and Chainsaw Mill or another jig of sorts for cutting lumber? Was offered some Redwood logs, would love to mill them but not finding any DIY solutions out there! Some potential to weld something together but dunno if they would be able to in the time they want the logs out of there : ( Thanks a bunch! Bests, J

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Anti-black racism Edit-a-thon at LOL Makerspace 9/22

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, LOL Makerspace <http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/> is having an anti-black racism edit-a-thon on 9/22: "LOL Hackers are organizing a wiki edit-a-thon addressing anti-black racism. Come out to help us continue planning the edit-a-thon. We can go through the Oakland Wiki and Wikipedia and identify pages that we can work on and guidelines and logistics to help make the edit-a-thon accessible and fun! You're also welcome to come and work on other projects, too … Hack Night is open to everyone!" Here's the invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/864483943571189/ Hope you can make it! Marina

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Pickup failure - Assistance requested

by Marc Juul

Today Counter Culture Labs failed to pick up our new biosafety cabinet. We need someone or some device that can move a large 680 pound 6 foot wide, top heavy cabinet from its stand at about waist height, down to a couple of ground-level dollies so we can wheel it through a normal-sized doorway. Can you help? This is in redwood city. If we can get it onto dollies, we can move it from there. I have no experience with this sort of thing. We showed up with five people and even with one of the employees at the location helping we didn't feel comfortable even trying it, as it could easily result in serious injury. We put down half of the $500 price as a deposit, unscrewed the removable components and took them with us. We'd like to try to pick it up within the next week. It is the NU-425-600 model from this page: http://www.nuaire.com/products/labgard-es-energy-saver-nu-425-class-ii-type… cabinet.html Dimension without base stand: 77 ⅝ x 32 ⅞ x 63 inches -- marc/juul 510 717 4275

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Saturday! inviting Onyx Ashanti to show and tell at sudoroom

by Jake

hey sudoroom, i met this guy today at noisebridge (i know, i said i don't go there anymore) and he is doing some amazing stuff!!! We all have so much to learn from him, and be inspired by him. here is a recent post from his website, watch the video: http://onyx-ashanti.com/2014/07/11/the-nomadic-diary-of-onyx-ashanti-episod… basically he has been making amazing WEARABLE technology for purposes of music and other forms of electronic expression, in the most organic way i have ever seen technology used. He is using electronics, embedded systems (wireless arduinos with accelerometers, force sensors, buttons, lights etc) and hardware (servo motors and haptic feedback vibes) in concert with extremely ergonomic (again organic) structures made with 3d printing, to make human interface devices for making music (in puredata). He uses a bunch of different filament types (even conductive filament) and a heavily customized very portable 3d printer. my only disappointment is that none of his circuits or 3d models are on github, although he says that the stuff he is working on now will be released freely as soon as he is satisfied with it. I hope that is soon. in the meantime, here's his github, which has a couple of puredata repositories (puredata is the FOSS version of MaxMSP) https://github.com/onyxashanti even without code or files from his designs, i was very inspired by his work and his energy and his attitude. as for the circuits and the robotics code, it's nothing I couldn't make from scratch quickly. but the ideas that he had for this stuff are ideas that i never had, even though they seem "obvious" after the fact. But so few of us are lucky enough to look at technology from a purely interactive perspective like he seems to. he said he would gladly come to sudoroom "any time" and I have his contact to let him know. Is there any reason I shouldn't tell him to come to sudoroom on saturday at around 5 or 6 pm? is anyone interested in seeing the stuff he does with music, puredata patches, 3d printing, wearable embedded wireless electronics, robotics (the expressive tentacle thing) etc? -jake

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robot manuals need OCR

by Jake

so all the manuals i have for the robot are SCANS of some sort of papyrus, upon which the instructions were once inscribed. this means they are not searchable. It seems at first that they can be searched, and copy and paste, but that is only the safety warning pages inserted by the people who scanned the pages into the PDF. None of the content is searchable! if you know how to do OCR (optical character recognition) on a PDF and make it so that one can still search the PDF without altering its readable appearance, please do so to some of the manuals here: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot highest priority would be the programming manual: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf and the robot arm manual: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf this would be an example of a PDF that has the scanned parts searchable: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoma… -jake

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Global Radiation Monitoring Network

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Want to have our own networked radiation monitoring station? The Global Radiation Monitoring Network is looking to add nodes to their network <http://www.uradmonitor.com/join-the-network/>. They only have two dozen or so nodes around the world so far, and none in California. "In this early phase of the project, there is only a minimal, non-profit cost, to cover the hardware components used and the shipping." The nodes are weatherproofed, and only need 5V power and an ethernet cable. Is this something that could potentially be piggy-backed on to the sudo mesh nodes as well? One of their node models has a barometric pressure sensor as well. Not sure to what extent this is an open source project, but we could find out. They were just featured as one of the semifinalists for the Hackaday prize <http://hackaday.com/2014/09/11/global-radiation-monitoring-network-update/>, so I expect they'll be getting an influx of new node requests... Patrik

11 years, 1 month

Help with votes for a community biotech lab in LA

by Ryan Bethencourt

Hi Sudo'ers As many of you know I'm trying to help spread biohacking across CA, the US and internationally (I've been pushing hacker spaces at XPRIZE too as a way to democratize innovation) and we need your help! I'm currently helping a group of LA biohackers (including Cory Tobin and other LAB members) to try to raise money for a large non-profit community biotech lab in LA through LA2050. We're close, as in really close, we're in the number 2 spot and we were in the number 1 spot but just recently lost the no 1 spot.The rest of the teams are arts collectives (which we also love) but we're the only science and tech entry and we'd love to bring more science down to LA. If the voting is successful they'll be a lab down in LA that we can all collaborate with and visit with, the team and I would REALLY appreciate the votes. If you have time to vote, it's really quick and it would help us a lot: http://myla2050create.maker.good.is/projects/LALabLaunch Hopefully within a few months we'll be able to have a new LA community biohacker night and invite you all to attend! All the best, Ryan -- Ryan Bethencourt Tel: (415) 825 2705 Conf. Dial in number: 585-632-6294 PIN: 48429 ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com *@ryanbethencourt*

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