On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:49 PM, joseph liesner <blue393(a)lmi.net> wrote:
> What is most problematic for me is that there is so little
> daylight here. Elliot's name is used but all the references to
> repeated violence are a mystery to me. Will the Mediator
> and Steward process make important information available?
Yeah, I was too ambiguous. Everything they write will be public and
brought to a meeting, but things shouldn't be "hashed out", meaning
the long fact-finding conversations don't happen at meetings. The
point is to still be accountable but not waste everyone's time.
Full policy is here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles_of_Association#Section_3.2_Conflict_Reso…
> I fully support Sudo and all members right to be safe in our space
> yet without more daylight in this matter than I have experienced in
> others at the Omni it feels like a comrade will just disappear.
If we can't prioritize safe space, most comrades will just never
appear in the first place.
Are you a health worker with tons of great knowledge to share? Are you in
need of connecting with good resources?
Folks from the Berkeley Free Clinic Information Resource Collective are
going to start using Oakland Wiki to publish a people's health guide. Want
to add something, or need to figure something out? Come work with us at
Sudo Room at 7pm!
Cya,
Vicky
Filling in on this panel by last-minute request. Promoting the Omni Commons
fund-raising campaign and seeking connections to others who can contribute.
The Grange represents a very intriguing parallel organizing history to our
initiative with Omni Commons, I would enjoy engaging others in comparisons,
etc. What does the struggle over the commons look like in rural vs urban
contexts?
// Matt
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Severine von Tscharner Fleming <smithereen(a)me.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Subject: Pleas send out over your networks TODAY? ???!!
To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>
*Tonight from 7-9 PM Grange Future will be inhabiting the community space
that is Shaping SF <http://www.shapingsf.org/>. We will have presentations
by Matt Senate, Brewster Kahle and Severine Fleming along with our
traveling Grange Future pop-up exhibit on display. The event is free and
open to the public. *
Mutual aid societies proliferated during the gilded age, as workers,
miners, loggers, and farmers joined together in fraternal orders. The
Grange, or patrons of husbandry" was such an order, founded in 1867 by
forward thinking farmer Oliver Kelley, assisted by his niece Caroline
Hall. Grange
Future <http://www.grangefuture.org/> is a celebratory tour organized by
Greenhorns <http://www.thegreenhorns.net/>, a young farmers cultural
organization. This will be our 9th stop on the tour-- investigating the
revival and preservation of the grange as a commons. It's an
inter-generational event to help interpret the radical history, and
potential of the grange for both greenhorns and the grey-hairs who've
loyally tended this community-owned institution, its lovely halls and
ritual practices.
As victorian as it is Occupy, the grange holds a powerful critique of
monopoly capitalism. The grange was the first order to give equal votes to
women, and operated as a social hall, economic reform organ, and
legislative training facility for the populist movement. Grangers believed
mightily in yeoman agriculture, in direct democracy, and in equal access to
information and science. Grangers successfully organized thousands of
co-operatives across the country as well as the 8 "Granger laws" regulating
railroad monopolies, and lobbied successfully for Rural Free Mail Delivery
-- the equivalent in its day to rural broadband or electrification.
Aren't today's cooperatives
<http://www.thegreenhorns.net/guidebooks/cooperativefarming/>, open source
licenses, hacker-spaces and mutual-aid associations an analog response to
Gilded-age type concentration of capital? Is the grange a venue for the sharing
economy
<http://communityenterpriselaw.org/forming-community-enterprise/nonprofit-or…>,
today's populists and common-wealth advocates working on a public-banking
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/13/post-office-banking-_n_4776767.html>
to
rescue a failing Post Office (threatened with privatization), the community
seed banks (threatened with USDA regulation), to host buying clubs,
co-packing facilities, affordable rural day-care and fix-it potlucks? As a
generation with 1.3 trillion dollars in student loans, don't we need a
club-house for community action, democracy schools, and doesn't it not
matter if we aren't all farmers?
This tour brings a multi-format exhibit showcasing the radical themes of
Grange history to more than a dozen Grange halls in the state of
California. It’s a chance to interact with next-generation grangers working
on inter-generational truce-making. It's a chance to learn how to operate
the microphones, the power breakers, the correct arrangement of pots. In
short, it's a place to meet the keepers of the Commons. Severine has
created a slide show presentation with contemporary echoes of Grange
Spirit. We continue to sniff out and study, and perform oral histories on
emergent cultural forms and trends. So far we’ve documented: Pancake
breakfasts, benevolent societies, community orchards, seed libraries, and
community canneries. Our exploration of past and present populism
continues. Listenhere
<http://thegreenhorns.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=df3f36b607325b38808…>
for
the podcasts of the Grange Future Oral history project.
Matt Senate collaborates with many others on the Omni Commons, a
grass-roots initiative to forge a commons in the east bay within a 20,000
square foot former Italian social club (and former music venue). Using a
spokes-council model and horizontalist organizing practices, the Omni
Oakland Collective is constituted by member collectives and operates on a
consensus-based process, as well as with do-ocratic values. He is a
co-founder of the Sudo Room, an Omni Commons member collective, and home of
the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network, a
community-owned and -operated wireless mesh network.
Brewster Kahle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle> has been
working to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge for more than
twenty-five years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing
technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle
invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area
Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering
electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In
1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive which may be the largest digital
library. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet which helps catalog
the Web in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> in
1999. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W.
Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking
Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as a lead engineer
for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive,
and the Internet Archive.
Severine Fleming is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in the
Champlain Valley of New York. She is director of Greenhorns
<http://www.thegreenhorns.net/>, a grassroots organization with the mission
to recruit, promote and support the rising generation of new farmers in
America. Severine has spent the last seven years gathering, bundling and
broadcasting the voices and vision of young agrarians. Greenhorns runs a
weekly radio show on Heritage Radio Network
<http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/> and a popular blog. They produce
many kinds of media, from documentary films to almanacs, anthologies,
mix-tapes, posters, guidebooks and digital maps. They are best known the
documentary film, “The Greenhorns”
<http://www.thegreenhorns.net/category/media/documentary/> and the raucous
young farmer mixers they’ve thrown in 37 states and 14 grange halls.
Severine is co-founder and board secretary of Farm Hack
<http://farmhack.net/home/>, an online, open-source platform for
appropriate and affordable farm tools and technologies, as well asNational
Young Farmers Coalition <http://www.youngfarmers.org/> which now boasts 23
state and regional coalitions. She serves on the board of the Schumacher
Center for New Economics, which hosts Agrarian Trust,
<http://agrariantrust.org/> her latest startup, focused on land access for
beginning farmers, and permanent protection of affordable organic farmland.
Grange Future is a community history project undertaken by The Greenhorns
to investigate the the Patrons of Husbandry as a 125 year old populist
movement, and to showcase the Granges and Grange-like organizations
continuing to work, and organize in this spirit. We see the Granges as an
appropriate vessel for futurist, family-farm oriented community action,
with a strong basis in economic theory, resistance and cooperation. We hope
to embolden greenhorns in our network with an entry-point into the grange
movement, to unlock and revive the many grange halls currently hibernating:
to use the syllabus of past actions to inform contemporary ones, and to
reclaim the radical politics of the grange at the local and national
levels. With this project we’ve captured the history and current activities
in audio, visual, and written form, we’re gleaning the institutional wisdom
from decades of agrarian organizing, and connecting with the broad
community tackling similar themes throughout the nation. Community is the
pre-condition for action, if you too feel inspired by the grange, we hope
you will join in the convening, the kinship and the future-making.
Hi all,
I've started a wiki page to document crisis resources, namely homeless
shelters, hotlines, domestic violence programs and drug and alcohol rehab
programs: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Resources
This is the beginning of a research project that I'd love to have others
collaborate on. It involves:
* Documenting known resources on the wiki page,
* Cross-checking to ensure each resource still exists and has a good
reputation,
* Creating a paper-based handout we can give to folks in need (frontdesk =
helpdesk!),
* Circulating knowledge of available resources among our community so we
can tailor recommendations to individual needs.
Please help by contributing a few resources to the wiki and documenting the
address, URL and phone number of each addition:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Resources
Many thanks,
Jenny
Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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not sure if anyone forwarded this to sudodiscuss or not but figured
there might be some folks interested.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [spaghettinight] Enviro justice nonprofit seeking website help
Date: 2015-01-12 14:00
From: Rachel Gottfried-Clancy <rgottfried00(a)gmail.com>
To: The Spaghetti Night mailing list <spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net>
Reply-To: The Spaghetti Night mailing list <spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net>
Hey All,
Environmental Justice Coalition for water is a pretty bad-ass coalition
of 70 grassroots water/racial justice organizations that does advocacy
and organizing.
They are still using a website from 2004. and want to create a new
(probably wordpress) site. They are looking to contract someone to build
it pretty immediately.
If you are interested please contact the ED Colin at colin@ejcw as soon
as possible.
Best,
Rachel
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Hi all,
The full spectrum laser cutter I brought to the hacker pace has been
out of service for some time, after Brendon's attempt to fix its loose
keyswitch ended in board-popping disaster. (Shit happens, **but
ermehgawd always remove power before fixing circuits guize**)
Anyway, I bought some new stepper motor drivers to replace the burnt
ones on the controller, but unfortunately there seems to be more
wrecked with it than just that simple fix. I'd love to get this thing
working for the community, though, that's a bit hard with no brains
for the machine.
A new board from full spectrum is $1500, but I contacted them with a
"we're a poor hackerspace" card and they'd be willing to replace it
for $250 if I mail in the old controller, which I feel is within
raise-able reach. This would give us full access to their software
suite / print driver, and a reliable machine.
The other option, suggested by rayc is to use an arduino, stepper
controllers and a g-code generating toolchain to run the machine.
While I don't see any reason why that couldn't work, I feel like that
might be a bit awkward for people who wish to use the cutter, and
further makes the guide I wrote kind of useless.
http://hack.rit.edu/tools/full-spectrum-laser-cutter/
As a community, what do y'all believe is best?
Cheers,
-Adam
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Be • knowledgeable • social • patient • fearless • compassionate •
fun • humble • forgiving.
Be a leader
Hi everyone,
The potential sudoroom lawyer Kyle (awesome person) has drafted an
engagement letter to get us started with becoming a 501c3.
Here it is: https://github.com/sudoroom/lawyer-engagement-letter
I think it looks solid, but if anyone has any concerns, please let me
know. I do not think that I'll make tomorrow's meeting, but if there are
concerns, let me know and I'll communicate those.
I have a meeting with Kyle this Friday with Julio.
w00t!
--
0x54FC570B
Found it, in the last place I looked!
// Matt
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From: "mattsenate(a)gmail.com" <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>
To: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Subject: Small blue toiletries bag with tools in it, transparent top
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 11:24 AM
Hey all,
Lost my hackpack working on the front door to omni last night. Much appreciated if anyone can find or return it.
// Matt
There's an electrical cord that has been hanging out of the window by the
front door.
I think it's okay to let community members use electricity while they are
here, but we need to communicate that cords should be brought back in when
they're finished using them.
I'm not sure who talked to the gentleman who is charging his motorbike - he
said it was brought up at Sudo room - but I asked him not to leave the cord
out there and if that message could be reinforced that would be great!
<3
N
Good idea M^6 , and Einstein & I will start dropping trou, but I find I
_can_ actually can get almost of all my Goldwater in the receptacle
despite my underwhelming endowment, but only if I kneel in someone
else's splatter. Luckily, I always wear shorts, so its easy to wipe off
my knees. My pal David Rovics wrote a song apropos of this issue, Stand
Up For Your Rights But Sit Down To Piss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKDSMPzneE
BTW, what's the story on the urinals in the head in the hallway to the
sudoroom? One of them was operational, but I notice they are all
cordoned off now. Do we need funds to fix them or are they destined for
the knackers?
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:03:29 -0800
> From: Maximilian Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>
> To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>,
> "discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org" <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
> Subject: [sudo-discuss] I'm going to pee sitting down at the omni: A
> call for others to join.
> Message-ID:
> <CAKbmofgapiMzQ2PCLg3Y=774wrfP=M6tvRq-z2LQSd4sLzACvg(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Please excuse the unusual nature of this email and take me seriously for a
> moment.
>
> I have started the practice of sitting down to pee at the Omni, which is
> not something I do anywhere else in my life. Before I continue, you may
> well be wondering if I am assuming that my readership are the owners of
> "hoses" as Arnas called them . "No" is the answer, but of course if you
> already urinate while sitting then perhaps this call to action is less
> germane.
>
> Here is my reasoning:
> 1. I Care about bathroom cleanliness at the Omni.
> 2. After close inspection, and many trials, even with the utmost care I
> cannot urinate standing up in a way that gets all my urine securely in the
> bowl without splashing a very small amount.
> 3. In my experiments peeing sitting down is almost fail-safe at getting all
> my urine in the toilet bowl.
> 4. I have the option to sit down to pee.
>
> Since there are two options, and one is superior from a cleanliness point
> of view - albeit slightly more labour intensive - and since cleaning will
> be done in solidarity by one of our members; I therefore am pledging to sit
> down to pee at the Omni.
>
> I hope you will take this position
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Lesley Bell <zvezdalune(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It just so happens that Tom L. began such a discussion that lasted the
> entire ride back to Hackistan/Stanza. Here's the link to his blog on the
> subject of hover peeing: http://thomaslevine.com/!/hovering-cycle/
>
> It's actually not such a gendered thing. Women can pee standing up as well,
> and many do. It's actually much neater than hover peeing, which is a blight
> on toilets everywhere. However, it is a power best used outdoors. The
> toilets at the Omni are made for sitting, and people of all genders can do
> so. I too pledge not to stand or hover.
Tom's data indicates that neither cis men and cis women can be fully
trusted to keep toilets clean. The solution is clear: only trans and
genderqueer people should be allowed to pee at the Omni.
Please excuse the unusual nature of this email and take me seriously for a
moment.
I have started the practice of sitting down to pee at the Omni, which is
not something I do anywhere else in my life. Before I continue, you may
well be wondering if I am assuming that my readership are the owners of
"hoses" as Arnas called them . "No" is the answer, but of course if you
already urinate while sitting then perhaps this call to action is less
germane.
Here is my reasoning:
1. I Care about bathroom cleanliness at the Omni.
2. After close inspection, and many trials, even with the utmost care I
cannot urinate standing up in a way that gets all my urine securely in the
bowl without splashing a very small amount.
3. In my experiments peeing sitting down is almost fail-safe at getting all
my urine in the toilet bowl.
4. I have the option to sit down to pee.
Since there are two options, and one is superior from a cleanliness point
of view - albeit slightly more labour intensive - and since cleaning will
be done in solidarity by one of our members; I therefore am pledging to sit
down to pee at the Omni.
I hope you will take this position with me, if you can, to build a cleaner
Omni.
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
Hi. I'm working on SudoKit <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/SudoKit> .
- the goal is to make a physical artistic "learn how to use sudoroom" kit
that uses the internet, digital phones & tablets as much as possible +
encourages folks to use the sudroom
It's basically a series of boxes with paper placemats inside. each placemat
represents a project
I want to put out periodic Maps like this one that are fun. here's a very
rough draft
*- does one already exist? has someone worked on it*
- i want these to be playful - there should be an adventure every time
someone visits
- hopefully solves the problem of being overwhelmed... encourages
exploration
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/SudoKit#SudoRoom_Treasure_Map
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Noemy,
Yes LEDs! They should be in every room, somewhere. For safety, at least!
Motion sensors, auto timers, the whole gamoot!
I'm not any of expert at lighting, really, but I'm open to helping figure
it out. I at least have ideas of where key safety lights oughta go, and
what features are best fir each room. I'd love to see if we could set them
up on the network and task them!
Connor,
Both! We have, I think, two or three mate plants in CCL right now, and they
need a better setup. If we are able to smarthouse then, why shouldn't we?
I've never worked with rasp-pi, but I'm still young, and my brain's still
mostly made of rubber... so why not take a crack now.
~ Korl
500px.com/eske
510.689.4484
On Jan 12, 2015 9:48 PM, "Connor Hogan" <conn.hogan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Re: RasPi moisture sensor... I've been meaning to start working on an
> automated greenhouse, is this something you'd want to work on or just
> throwing out ideas for the group?
>
> -Connor
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Eske Silver <eske.silver(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was browsing one of my favorite "waste time learning things" sites, and
>> I came across a handful of articles that screamed Sudo/DIY/Yes.
>>
>> Go-go gadget Sudo Discuss!
>>
>> How can we get involved with this:
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/old-laptop-batteries-light-way-developing…
>>
>> How can we start DIY hacking bikes like this ourselves:
>> http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/cobi-upgrades-dumb-bike-smart-bike.html
>> http://cobi.bike/
>>
>> Who wants to do some DIY Secret Agent safety "graffitti" (or try to get
>> the city to do it?):
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/gorgeous-glow-in-the-dark-bike-path-goes-li…
>>
>> We have the machines, so why not:
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/meet-pi-top-3d-printed-raspberry-pi-lapto…
>>
>> For ze Mate plants:
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/gadgets/make-raspberry-pi-moisture-sen…
>>
>> For ze PG&E and our many skylights (We could totally do this ourselves):
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/intelligent-daylighting-solution…
>>
>>
>> And just for your viewing pleasure:
>>
>> http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/cell-phones-charged-sound-are-becoming-cl…
>>
>>
>> Have an amazing Monday, guys!
>>
>>
>> ~ Korl
>>
>> 500px.com/eske
>> 510.689.4484
>>
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>>
>>
>
While I wasn't there for this latest instance, this is the second time in
our new location (I was present the first time) and at least the fourth
instance related to sudo room, of Elliot escalating a situation to a
physical, even violent, response on his part.
I am no longer willing to tolerate this behavior and continue to risk all
the love, care, and work that goes into making all of omni commons, and
each collective, a thriving and safer community and space.
In sum, it seems evident that Elliot's continued involvement in omni
commons is already a greater cost, and even greater potential risk, than a
revocation of his privilege to use the space.
I propose sudo room in particular revoke Elliot's non-member privilege to
access the sudo room, and therefore the omni commons, until Elliot can
provide the sudo room membership with tangible evidence of a new investment
in the prevention of physical violence and marked improvement of his own
behavior in this regard.
// Matt
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Samir Faci <samir(a)esamir.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in sudo room in general as well, though I keep getting
> mixed messages if it's open to the public or not.
We're in a tricky legal situation. But you should stop by anytime and
check it out. There are almost always people in the building willing
to vouch for guests and give tours. You can also call Sudoroom's phone
# ahead of time: 510-858-7155
We get a lot of emails to info(a)sudoroom.org and only a few people are
on that list. A lot of good people and opportunities have sadly fallen
through the cracks because the same few people are overextended. If
you would like to help us with this labor of love, please join the
list here: https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info
Thanks!
Hi All,
The two previous posts did not go to this gmail but did go to my yahoo
email -- of course into my spam folder.
So, the main thing is for someone to forward my posts so everyone can see
them.
And can someone tell me how I can get my posts to come to this email where
everyone else's posts arrive at, but not mine for some reason (and here
none go into the spam folder).
Hope I haven't taken up too much time and space with all this, but the
yahoo spam folder thing is something everyone should be aware of.
Have a funny day.
Best,
Ira Brightman
I wish there an english term analogous to to majordo@. What would succinctly express rotational co-responsibility?
It's easier to use verbs that nouns in non-dicey manner to describe the people who are stewarding projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_work
-Patrick
'yall don't even know about fearless hacking
That's basically the hammer of thor
Paypal would probably be best (ajm9414(a)g.rit.edu)
I'll send in the old board today and, we'll see if we can get this guy up
in a week :-)
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Be • knowledgeable • social • patient • fearless • compassionate • fun •
humble • forgiving.
Be a leader
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Ben Burke <benjaminburke(a)me.com> wrote:
> Let me know when/where to send money. I'm in for $125, if the other $125
> comes from a bunch of other people, that's no skin off my back. My purpose
> is to support both people who donate/lend equipment to hackerspaces and
> also people who fearlessly hack on stuff.
>
>
>
> > On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Adam Munich <adam(a)aperture.systems> wrote:
> >
> > I believe what's happening is Brendan and Ben are going to split the FSL
> board.
> >
> > I'll mail in the old one soon & front the cost s.t. we get this guy up
> > and running quickly :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Adam
> > ---
> > Aperture Systems: Redefining Radiography - http://aperture.systems/
> > http://adammunich.com/ - Cell: +1-650-452-0554
> >
> > Be • knowledgeable • social • patient • fearless • compassionate •
> > fun • humble • forgiving.
> >
> > Be a leader
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:59 AM, David Rorex <drorex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> You might want to check lightobject.com, he is local and sells laser
> cutter
> >> parts for reasonable prices, and aren't jerks like FSL.
> >>
> >> On Jan 9, 2015 11:55 AM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> thanks for bringing in the machine and i agree just swapping in a
> >>> replacement driver is best. count me in for $20
> >>>
> >>> On 2015-01-08 22:14, Adam Munich wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> The full spectrum laser cutter I brought to the hacker pace has been
> >>>> out of service for some time, after Brendon's attempt to fix its loose
> >>>> keyswitch ended in board-popping disaster. (Shit happens, **but
> >>>> ermehgawd always remove power before fixing circuits guize**)
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, I bought some new stepper motor drivers to replace the burnt
> >>>> ones on the controller, but unfortunately there seems to be more
> >>>> wrecked with it than just that simple fix. I'd love to get this thing
> >>>> working for the community, though, that's a bit hard with no brains
> >>>> for the machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> A new board from full spectrum is $1500, but I contacted them with a
> >>>> "we're a poor hackerspace" card and they'd be willing to replace it
> >>>> for $250 if I mail in the old controller, which I feel is within
> >>>> raise-able reach. This would give us full access to their software
> >>>> suite / print driver, and a reliable machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> The other option, suggested by rayc is to use an arduino, stepper
> >>>> controllers and a g-code generating toolchain to run the machine.
> >>>> While I don't see any reason why that couldn't work, I feel like that
> >>>> might be a bit awkward for people who wish to use the cutter, and
> >>>> further makes the guide I wrote kind of useless.
> >>>> http://hack.rit.edu/tools/full-spectrum-laser-cutter/
> >>>>
> >>>> As a community, what do y'all believe is best?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> -Adam
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
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> >>>> http://adammunich.com/ - Cell: +1-650-452-0554
> >>>>
> >>>> Be • knowledgeable • social • patient • fearless • compassionate •
> >>>> fun • humble • forgiving.
> >>>>
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