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Fwd: [FixitClinic] Leapfrog educational tablets

by Steve Berl

Anyone interested? -steve ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Mui <petermui(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM Subject: [FixitClinic] Leapfrog educational tablets To: fixitfan(a)googlegroups.com Hi Fixit Fans: Are you interested in this? Contact Jon directly. -Peter Begin forwarded message: *From: *J L <juanitobandito(a)hotmail.com> *Subject: **Fixit: Leapfrog educational tablets* *Date: *August 13, 2013 12:41:55 AM PDT *To: *"petermui(a)gmail.com" <petermui(a)gmail.com> Hi, Peter, My mom works for the West Contra Costa County School District. The district is decommissioning hardware and software for the Leapfrog Leap Pad system. There are 30 non-working tablets. My mom suspects the styluses need attention. She can show someone how to do this, but she doesn't have the time to do it herself. These tablets and probably many more would then be available (with accompanying hard- and software) for donation to an NGO or other after-school program. The set-up just requires one Windows XP computer per classroom. Is this something Fixit Clinic could help with? We don't know who might need this system, but my mom says it's a good learning methodology. Without repair and a donation recipient, a few classrooms worth of stuff will become e-waste. Thanks for your consideration, Jon Lowe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FixitFan" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fixitfan+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fixitfan(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -steve

12 years, 1 month

Workshop idea: Make extra chargers for your portable electronics

by Thomas Levine

We have a bunch of AC/DC power adapters lying around, and we could turn these into extra chargers for our respective laptops and phones. Is anyone interested in having a session on this? If so, I'll run it. The session might go like this. 1. I explain the relevant stuff about electricity (for at most 10 minutes). 2. We look up the electrical requirements of our devices. 3. We look for matching chargers. 4. If a charger supplies the right electricity but has the wrong plugs, we cut off the plugs and exchange them. We'd need these materials. * Things you want to make adapters for * Adapters that you're not using, to add to our pool in Sudoroom I can also bring some assorted plugs. If you have a Mac laptop, you should acquire a broken charger; the plugs seem to be proprietary.

12 years, 1 month

Logo Revision

by Ryan

After a long hiatus, the logo revision is back online and ready to be discussed. I've attached a four page .pdf to review the latest iterations based on the last feedback I received. For those not familiar, we've been discussing this for several months now, and have gone through a lot of different ideas. Prudently, most sudoers have gravitated towards the logo sketches more similar to the current logo, and here we are. This Survey Monkey survey question <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z9W5K3Y>applies to the Very Last Page (4) of the attached presentation. Please provide feedback.

12 years, 1 month

Sleep and capitalism.

by Romy Ilano

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/07/season-all-natures

12 years, 1 month

Great to see SudoRoom at the Noisebridge party!

by Romy Ilano

It was cool sitting with the SudoRoom folks in the Noisebridge Library. So many people would have tried to get on my case about how "print is dead" and told me books are "dead trees." I should go "look online" where all the "information" is. It was cool learning about POSIX, going over SmallTalk, and learning about Ruby, Python and so on while looking at print books. Viva SudoRoom!

12 years, 1 month

BACH [Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces] Newsletter 0

by Jenny Ryan

Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces http://ba.chgrp.org Newsletter #1 August 2013 Bay Area Hackerspace Roundtable BACH is a loosely-organized association of hackerspaces in the San Francisco Bay Area. BACH strives to be very thin, with almost no over-head. We exist to help member spaces coordinate, communicate, and collaborate. Above all, we support the Bay Area hackerspace community's existent inter-dependence and resilience. Learn more and find notes on past roundtables at hackerspaces.org<http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackerspaces/> . Our next BACH Roundtable will be in September (date TBD) at LOL [Liberating Ourselves Locally], a people-of-color-led, gender-balanced makerspace in East Oakland. Subscribe<https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/bayareahackerspaces>to the mailing list and stay tuned for an announcement with date, time, and address! Upcoming Events Across the Bay August - CakeFest (CakePHP), Aug 29-Sept 1, online and in San Francisco http://cakefest.org - Disability Awareness Night 2013, Aug 16, San Jose Giants Stadium - Bay Area Homebrew Festival, Aug 24, Fort Mason Ctr September - SynBioBeta SF <http://synbiobeta.com/sf2013/>, November 15th at the Mission Conference Center, 7am-7pm. October - Bay Area Drupal Camp 2013, October 24-27, Berkeley http://2013.badcamp.net - Responsive Design Studio, October 15-16, Mountain View http://rosenfeldmedia.com/events/responsive-design-studio/fall-2013/ - Design Hacking, 14 Nov, and Finance Hacking, 8 Oct, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View August Updates: Hackermoms is closed for August. http://mothership.hackermoms.org/calendar/ San Leandro Coworking and HayHackers are exploring the idea of combining forces to represent the middle and south side east bay. At some later point we can divide and spread across the land, helping to reach our Fremont hackers closer to where they live. Ace Monster Toys http://meetup.acemonstertoys.org/ - 3D Printing, every other Wednesday @ 7:30pm (August 14, 28) - Arduino / Raspberry Pi / Microcontrollers, alternating Wednesdays @ 7pm (August 7, 21) - Assemble 3D Printers, alternating Wednesdays @ 7:30pm (August 14, 28) - Sewing & Textiles Open Lab, every other Tuesday @ 7pm (August 13, 27) - General Meeting / Open House, every Thursday @ 7:30pm - CNC Router Introduction, Tuesday, August 13th @ 7pm - Learn to Use a 3D Printer, Wednesday, August 14th @ 7pm - Hacker Scouts Open Lab, Sunday, September 1st @ 2pm Counter Culture Labs http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/ - Open Bioinformatics: Exploring the Genome<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/132990982/>, Sunday, August 11th @ 7pm @ Sudo Room - Weekly Working Meetings<http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/133176082/>, every Wednesday @ 6pm @ Ahnon’s - Monthly General Meeting, Last Fridays @ 6pm @ Sudo Room Hacker Dojo - The 12 Tasks of Hercules: Robot hacking every Saturday @ 1:30pm - Laptop Music Production Workshop, Tuesday, August 13th @ 7pm - SVSC - Quantum Computing Discussion Group<http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/3562002-svsc-quantum-computing-discussio…>, Friday, August 16th @ 5pm - Repair Cafe Mountain View, Sunday, August 18th, 10am-5pm - Linux Virtualization Workshop, Monday, August 19th @ 7pm - Internet of Things Silicon Valley Meetup, Tuesday, August 20th @ 6pm - Cooking For Hackers: Steak And Red Wine<http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/3461003-cooking-for-hackers-steak-and-re…>, Wednesday, August 21st @ 6:30pm - Spokenvote - Rails for Charity Hack Session<http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/3331002-spokenvote-rails-for-charity-hac…>, Sunday, August 25th @ 6pm - Execution Models & Architectures for Big Data Cloud Computing & Streaming<http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/3068001-execution-models-architectures-f…>, Monday, August 26th @ 7pm - HTML5 Game Development Study Group: Tuesday, August 13th, Tuesday, August 20th, and Monday, August 26th @ 6pm LOLspace - LOL Open Hack Night: Decolonizing Technology every Monday starting @ 7pm - How We Move: Urban dance class on Sunday, August 18th starting at noon - Construction Class every Saturday starting @ 1pm - Resilient Communities Legal Cafe, a non-profit legal advice clinic hosted by the Sustainable Economies Law Center, every First Thursday starting @ 4:30pm Marin Makers http://www.meetup.com/MarinMakerspace/ - Planning for the Mini Maker Faire, Tuesday, August 20th @ 6:30pm - Monthly General Meeting, every First Tuesday @ 6:30pm - Even more planning for the Mini Maker Faire, Tuesday, September 10th @ 6:30pm Noisebridge - Special event: Saturday, August 10, 16:00: Noisebridge "______ the Bridge" Party<https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_%22_the_Bridge%22_Party>, a summer fundraising party for Noisebridge - Circuit Hacking Monday, every Monday @ 7:30pm - Frontend Web Development, every Monday @ 8pm - Gamebridge Unityversity, every Monday @ 7pm - Noisebridge Weekly Meeting, every Tuesday @ 7pm - Five Minutes of Fame, every Third Thursday @ 8pm - BAHA - Bay Area Hacker’s Association security meetup, Second Sundays @ 2pm - Tastebridge / Vegan Hacker monthly food hacking, Last Thursdays @ 7pm - Post-Waste Nexus every Thursday except for 3rd Thursdays @ 7pm - 3D Thursdays (3D Printing & Fabrication) every Thursday except for 3rd Thursdays @ 7pm Sudo Room - Today I Learned is a series of one-off classes and workshops, every Saturday from 2-5pm. Check https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned for the full schedule! - Sudo Kids every Tuesday, starting at 5pm. - Microcontroller Hacking Night every other Tuesday @ 7pm [August 13, 27] - Python and Javascript meetups every Thursday @ 7pm - Oakland Wiki meeting every Thursday @ 7pm - Oakland Mesh Network hack nights every Thursday @ 8:30pm - Cryptoparty / Digital Security Workshop every Third Sunday starting @ 2pm - POSSE [Potluck Orientation Skill-share Swap-meet Event] Party every Third Friday from 6-9pm - General Meeting and Potluck every Wednesday @ 7pm - Most Awesome Guacamole Fest Fundraiser (TBD in August) Awesome projects happening in various hackerspaces: Ace Monster Toys - We crowdfunded a brand new CNC Metal Mill, for fabricating custom parts from solid blocks of metal. http://on.fb.me/11v5B32 - Stefan is making his own bow for archery: http://on.fb.me/1coYygL - Humanoid robot made from 16 servos: http://on.fb.me/19xOOBe - Fabricating custom PCBs (circuit boards) using the desktop CNC router: http://on.fb.me/16EN6c2 - 3D scanning and then 3D printing ourselves: http://on.fb.me/167AM45 - Lasercutting leather goods: http://on.fb.me/15c4VTc - Tesla Coils! http://on.fb.me/17iUWHn Counter Culture Labs - Glowing algae bioart is currently in ideation stage! - The Desktop Biolab <http://desktopbiolab.org> is a project to create a low-cost desktop biotech lab to help citizen scientists do genetic engineering at home. - A fork of the community education space, Berkeley Biolabs is to be a biotech incubator for therapeutics-based clinical research. Noisebridge - Excellent LED hacking projects combining electronics and arduino! A skill-share event took place last Tuesday, August 6th. Among the projects worked on included a LED matrix display, a VU-type meter and a coat with 200+ LEDs. - The Noise Orchestra <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/NoiseJam> is an open ensemble of handmade, hand-wired, and hand-coded instruments. - Post-Waste Nexus <http://postwastenexus.org/>endeavors to reuse and recycle electronic waste, place refurbished computers with free and open source software in our communities, provide education and job training, use environmentally responsible e-waste handling practices, and operate under consensus decision making. - A group of Noisebridgers, the DreamTeam<https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/DreamTeam>, are conducting research and working on projects related to brain computer interfaces. - Some Noisebridgers just finished a super-successful Kickstarter campaign<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swiftnav/piksi-the-rtk-gps-receiver>for Piksi, a low-cost RTK GPS receiver (centimeter level precision) with open source software and board design targeted at UAVs. Sudo Room - The Oakland Mesh group <http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> successfully crowdfunded the first round of hardware for the community wireless network we’re building throughout East Oakland. Want to join the mesh? Add your node here: http://meshmap.sudoroom.org - GETit <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Phage_therapy> is collaborating with local clinics to develop novel therapies for the eradication of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea. - Some folks have been working on a brain-computer interface for controlling MC Hawking, the open source robot currently on loan from Noisebridge. - SudoMaté RISE is a carbonated yerba mate natural energy drink. An open source soda: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudomate - available at Sudo Room. - Subiir is currently brewing their 7th batch: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Subiir_7 - Juul is building an arcade machine running all free and open source video games, and with a variety of controllers. - Eddie Che is building a small mobile greenhouse for growing food, and previously built a rocket stove at the space: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Stove_Finished.jpg - Sun Synchrony is building and designing a new device for producing solar electricity. The cells are more than twice the power of conventional silicon cells, and this system provides nearly double the electricity per given area, charges electronics much faster solar, and offers maximum OFF-GRID INDEPENDENCE. We Have Questions: Does your hackerspace have its own general liability insurance? Would you be interested in pooling to get a better price on a policy, if available? CREDITS: Kudos to Ace Monster Toys who actually emailed their updates when asked. Others: you can learn! Jenny Ryan (Sudo Room) collected most of these updates by hand. Yes, from each site, one by one. Deep bows of gratitude for representing everyone so well. Judi Clark (SL Coworking) added a few updates, did the layout for the print & pdf versions, added these snarky comments and printed some hand-out versions. Calendar Feeds: 1. Hackermoms: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/hsflo4jnaakg2vrp4addsimceg%40group.cal… 2. Noisebridge: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=1uesj915rces4cbmcr8j3sg8t0%40grou… 3. Sudo room: https://sudoroom.org/?plugin=all-in-one-event-calendar&controller=ai1ec_exp… 4. Ace Monster Toys: http://www.meetup.com/Ace-Monster-Toys/events/rss/Ace+Monster+Toys/ 5. Hacker Dojo: http://events.hackerdojo.com/ 6. Marin Makers: http://www.meetup.com/MarinMakerspace/

12 years, 1 month

This Sat 8/10: Today I Learned: Federated Syndicates, Auction Markets + List of Upcoming TIL's!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, This Saturday at 2PM please join us at Sudo Room for *"Today I Learned": Federated Syndicates, Auction Markets<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#August_10:_Federated_Syndicates.2…> *. Want to know what that means? Come at 2PM! We have a lot of really exciting TIL's<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned>coming up. Here's the rundown for the next six weeks: *August 17: Popcorn Party:* Learn how to make lots of fun flavors of popcorn! Movie night after??? *August 24: Fixit Clinic:* Come learn how to fix your broken whatever! *August 31: Git Part 2: Hacking Sudoroom's Articles:* Learn git by collaboratively working on our Articles of Association *September 7: The Hacker Distro:* Learn about Arch Linux<https://www.archlinux.org/>and why it's the software hacker's DIY distro of choice! *September 14: Understanding DNA and Evolution* -- From the sticky inside of your mouth to public internet databases *September 21: SQL Injection & Prevention: *SQL Injection or "SQLi" is a one of the most dangerous, popular and fun web appl exploits found today on the modern web. This workshop will cover the basics of SQL and then dive into some SQLi exploitation and mitigation techniques. Please forward far and wide and if you're interested in signing up to do a workshop, please just enter your workshop & contact info under your preferred date on the Sudo Room wiki<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned> . Best, Marina

12 years, 1 month

make your own RFID tag

by Jake

i mean, the real things are only about $2 and an attiny chip is $1, and your time is surely worth something, and you should just get a numeric code to get into sudoroom, which doesn't require any matter, but in case you decide to make an RFID tag yourself, here's how: http://scanlime.org/2008/09/using-an-avr-as-an-rfid-tag/ i believe this will work with the sudoroom RFID reader. but why bother? you can just buy a tag or get a code you can type in. -jake

12 years, 1 month

so how's the sudoRoom table for Noisebridge this Saturday?

by Romy Ilano

You've gotta show off how awesome SudoRoom is! looking forward to the Noisebridge party which will become the SudoRoom at noisebridge fest!

12 years, 1 month

Re: [sudo-discuss] Oakland Police Radio Feed

by Yardena Cohen

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There used to be a way to listen online to OPD's radio communications > here: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/10182 So, it looks like a new feed has already sprung up: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14659 I'm still interested in learning how to do it, though. Never hurts for us all to learn more skills. :)

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