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Volunteers needed tommorrow (Wednesday) morning!

by yar

Still trying to achieve fire safety & ADA accessibility by Saturday. Lots of things happening tomorrow morning. We need: Someone who can drive a U-haul full of waste to the following places: * hazardous waste * e-waste * recycling * solid waste We can tell you where to go. The truck needs to be returned by 12:30pm. You'll probably need to start by 8am. Someone to help the wheelchair lift installer starting around 9am - simple stuff like holding and fetching tools. And as many people as we can for spare hands during bathroom construction. Thanks so much!!

10 years, 12 months

robot programming format deciphered

by Jake

so I was able to use a primitive magnetic encoding sequencer to read robot programs from a flat magnetic tape. We had some antique (literally 25 years old) diskettes in the computer history museum, and I fed one to the robot, and then "saved" all the programs written so far to the "diskette" then, i used a mechanical diskette-reader for a desktop computer (which needed lubrication on its rusty motors and slides and quite a bit of fiddling to work) to read this magnetic tape "diskette" the filesytem format is nothing recognized by 'mount' so i was forced to simply dd the binary of the diskette's image to a file. I have posted the file here: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/robofloppy.2 and then i edited that with vim to extract the programs within. here is a simple program that makes 7 poses, and repeats: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/baby.txt this is a more raw version of all the jobs i found on the disk image, including some fragmentation. I don't understand the filesystem format, so it's just luck that so many of the files were intact in one piece. http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/jobs.txt as you can see, a program is a list of coordinates (the six hardware axes of the robot arm) and then a program referring to those coordinates. it can be more complicated than that of course, for example when we start using base or robot coordinates for 3d printing, but here it is anyway. this stuff is documented in this PDF: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479236-17-Communications.pdf and also, i think we might find the serial communications format used by the "diskette drive" to communicate with the robot, so we can skip the magnetic media entirely and send programs directly to the robot over serial. please let me know if you're interested in this stuff and want to try something. -jake

10 years, 12 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [omnilogistics] [BAPS-Organizing] ALL HANDS CALL TODAY/TONITE: HELP LOAD 17' TRUCK WITH OUR DEBRIS

by Jenny Ryan

I'm in for a late shift (after 8pm)! On Sep 16, 2014 3:05 PM, "Stephen Novotny" <novotny.stephen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'll be there as soon as I get off work, between 5:30 and 6! > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >

10 years, 12 months

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

10 years, 12 months

Particapatory Budgeting Conference

by refugia

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

10 years, 12 months

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

10 years, 12 months

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

10 years, 12 months

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

10 years, 12 months

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

10 years, 12 months

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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