Hi all,
Please review my plan below and let me know if this jives with the philosophy for the space.
> On Jan 21, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Captain Chesapeake <daro120sudo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok. There are few overall goals with respect to what I discussed above I think we should set, and it will take more than just me to execute them. Do these next steps make sense for the organization, for example?
>
> Perhaps:
> 1. Ask for volunteers to lead fundraising, cleanliness, and organization challenges, perhaps develop subcommittees specially tasked with these goals.
> 2. Ask these volunteers (with help of members) develop scope, schedule, budget (?) and lead execution of them, each with help from more volunteers.
> 3. Monthly reporting to the group on progress.
>
> I'd like to work with rcsheets on the financial issues, specifically developing a budget and setting targets for member contributions and fundraising. I have some other ideas about how we can raise money too. Rcsheets: can you work with me?
>
> David
>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Captain Chesapeake <daro120sudo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm a new member. I'm excited to be a part of this community. There are great people and great resources in the space. I've also noticed that is kind of disorganized, cluttered, and the organization is broke! As a medium to long term goal I think it would be great to gain financial solvency and be able to start saving for larger projects as well as clean up the space and make it an amazing workspace with lots of working tools, spare parts, and workspace.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed!
>>
>>> I reviewed the articles of association and noticed a few roles that were not apparent to me in the meetings I've attended. For me the first goal of implementing change is identifying the leadership and working with them to build a consensus.
>>
>> sudo room tries to be a horizontally structured space. You have as much sudo power as you're willing to take on but working with others and checking in before taking actions that are hard to undo is always good.
>>
>>> Is there an existing facilitator, scribe, exchequer, and conflict steward?
>>
>> This should probably be re-written slightly as these are roles that are assigned on a per-meeting or per-conflict basis. We should probably be better about actually verbally making a group decision on who is the facilitator and scribe for each meeting (lately we've been bad at that), though we do take collaborative notes so there is usually more than one person scribing. There can also be more than one conflict steward at the same time if there are multiple ongoing conflicts. We do have an exchequer and I believe that rcsheets is currently it :)
>>
>> --
>> marc/juul
>>
>
Greetings Omninoms/sudoers/CCL'ers/meshers,
Last week, Omni's tall A-frame ladder disappeared from the entrance hall
(if anyone noticed someone exiting the building with a ~13' wooden ladder,
lmk).
Robb and I did a bit of research, and ladders that tall are hard to come by
and fairly expensive. This 15' A-frame Little Giant seems to be the best
bet:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00064C4SQ/
Our scaffolding is bulky, takes time to set up, and doesn't reach the
ceilings in the ballroom, entrance hall nor sudo/ccl. A bucket lift is ~10x
more expensive, and wouldn't be able to access some parts of the building
we'd use it in. With a ladder this size, we could use it for working on the
ceilings everywhere - and mesh could use it for our Sunday node mounts.
The cost is $674.80, so I'm proposing the following financial split:
* Omni - $330
* Sudo - $115
* CCL - $115
* Sudo Mesh - $115
Ideas on how best to securely store it?
Please let me know asap if there are any blocking concerns or better ideas.
I'll bring it up at the next sudoroom and mesh meetings and hopefully
someone can bring it up at CCL's.
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
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-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
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please disregard this, since clearly "goods and services" were exchanged.
i'll look into the why/how/who of this auto-reply tomorrow.
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wrote:
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From: Rachel Sadd <crafty.avenger(a)acemonstertoys.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:13 AM
Subject: [sudo-info] Hacker/Maker Happy Hour - February 13th - Downtown Oakland
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Hello there,
Ace Monster Toys Makerspace would like to cordially invite the folks
at Sudoroom to the Hacker/Maker Happy Hour!
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Place: Make Westing - 1741 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612
https://www.facebook.com/events/1982934165279027/
AMT is seeking to foster stronger community both within our org and in
the greater Bay Area community. As such we are calling a happy hour
once a month in the east bay for all folks in the community who are
into making, hacking, inventing and so on.
Last months kick-off happy hour was a lot of fun. Check out the pics!
~Team AMT
Crafty Rachel
President, COO
acemonstertoys.orgmeetup.com/Ace-Monster-Toysfacebook.com/acemonstertoys
Hacker Happy Hour • For makers, hacker, inventors, artists and the
like in the greater bay area • 2nd Tuesdays
Dear Sudo Room,
Here's your invoice! We appreciate your prompt payment.
Thank you for stewarding the commons.
Love and solidarity,
Omni Commons
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From: Jonathon Duerig <duerig(a)tenrec.builders>
Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Oakland SUDO room purchase quoted lighting parts
To: jacques revera <jacquesrevera(a)gmail.com>
Sorry for not responding sooner, I'll get you the files in DXF format
today. I've attached them in DWG format to this email (since that is what I
had available without conversion).
...
Some notes about the design of the light box:
You will need two of each item I sent design files for. The scale of these
files is 1 unit = 1 mm.
If you want to modify the design to better suit your scanner, you will need
to reduce the distance between the lighting module front and lighting
module back. This affects the lighting module sides, the large baffles, and
the LED base plate.
The lighting module sides should be exactly the same, but reduced in width
by whatever is necessary to make it sit on the top of your scanner.
Similarly, the size of the large baffle needs to be reduced by the same
amount along its longest dimension.
The LED base plate is made from FR4. I included it in the shipment to you.
The reason it is FR4 is that it is meant to hold the lights which means
that any heat generated from the lights needs to be accounted for.
Something that is flammable or something that might distort and change
shape when it gets warm are bad choices. FR4 is great because it is both
flame and heat resistant.
The plate I sent will be too long. You could deal with this in two ways.
One way would be to remove the slots on top of the front/back plates and
have it just rest with a bit of overhang.
Another way would be to modify the plate so that it fits. You can cut FR4
with a saw (be careful because it is brittle). You can also drill FR4. So
you could cut it in half, then drill a couple of holes to bolt it back
together as a shorter length. If you do this, be very careful of the dust
generated. FR4 is fiberglass-reinforced. And fiberglass dust is dangerous.
Or if you have access to a waterjet, you could buy a piece of FR4 pretty
cheaply and use the waterjet to cut out a modified piece. If you want to do
this, let me know and I can send you the design file for it. You can't cut
FR4 with a laser AFAIK (heat resistant, flame resistant). And it would be a
bad idea to use a CNC router to cut it out (fiberglass dust is very bad for
you). This is why we pay a shop to cut out the LED base plates in batches
with a waterjet. But it is much more expensive to cut a one-off piece of a
different design.
Or if you don't want to modify the design of the lighting module, the
alternative is to add on to the scanner some pieces that would allow you to
rest the unmodified lighting module on top. I'm not sure how much bigger
the lighting module is. But it could be a 2x4 on each side would provide
enough extra width for example. I haven't had much experience with the
older hackerspace scanners, so I don't know for sure.
---
Jonathon Duerig
Tenrec Builders LLC
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018, at 1:05 PM, jacques revera wrote:
DXF is probably what we need. Please send a DXF file. But if you can
include the SVG also... This is not my ken and I have not heard back yet.
thanks!
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Jonathon Duerig <duerig(a)tenrec.builders>
wrote:
I've received your payment. I'll ship to:
Don Spark
4130 mera street
<https://maps.google.com/?q=4130+mera+street+%0D+Oakland,+CA+94601&entry=gma…>
Oakland, CA 94601
<https://maps.google.com/?q=4130+mera+street+%0D+Oakland,+CA+94601&entry=gma…>
When it is on its way, I'll send along tracking information.
And I'm happy to send you design files for the plates as soon as I hear
back what format you want them in.
---
Jonathon Duerig
Tenrec Builders LLC
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Jonathon Duerig wrote:
Hi. You can send a Paypal payment to our orders(a)tenrec.builders email
address. Or I can make a custom item in the store for you to purchase. It
is up to you which way you want to go.
I'll send along the design files for the main panels as well and you can
then modify them to suit your size or use them as-is and add your own cross
beams or framework to rest it on. Do you have a preferred format (DXF, SVG,
something else)?
---
Jonathon Duerig
Tenrec Builders LLC
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018, at 1:23 PM, jacques revera wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
I really appreciate your help and your work on diybookscanner.org where I
am trying to learn all the fundamentals to defeat my reading disability.
How do we do this with a credit card? Below is a link is to your quote. I
want to purchase the option (2) for $150 for use at Oakland's SUDO room on
the 'hackerspace' scanner which came from Noisebridge in San Fran.
Email, text or call me at 415-724-1479 <(415)%20724-1479>,
Jacques
https://forum.diybookscanner.org/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=view&f=0&p=3723
Jonathon wrote:
(2) You could get the lighting module hardware from me and cut out your own
plates for the module itself. I'll provide you with DXF or SVG files. The
plates could be cut out of hardboard on a laser cutter (I am pretty sure
they had a laser cutter at Noisebridge when I visited there) and then you
spray paint them black. And you could cut them out as-is, or tweak the
design to better fit your scanner before cutting them out. I'd be happy to
give you advice as far as that is concerned.
What I would send you includes all the electrical stuff, fixtures, LED
lights, hardware, AC adapter, the LED base plate made from FR-4, lenses,
etc. So you would get everything but the plates themselves. The price would
be $150 and shipping cost to California is included in that price.
This event at the Omni saturday night is important. I can record and upload
video of "Build Your Own Internet Workshop & Panel" to your channel, social
media or my channel. I am a semi-professional videographer and I get good
audio (which is the most important thing at panel and discussion events) -
especially if your sound is good and I take an audio feed from your board.
You can see some of my more recent event and protest videos here:
my channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7o6FVBWMi5Qtqk39t4AFA/videos
my videos on the Revolution Books channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/revbooks
Jacques
Hey sudo room people,
I am recent member of sudo room. I wanted to see who would be interested
in free Arduino classes for beginner programmers. I have the first class
online right now.
http://oaklandcodeschool.org/arduino-blockly/lesson-1-output/
I am going to be contacting GCEA about teaching for them and using the
computers they have provided for the Omni.
Let me know what you think. :)
Thank you
Noah
Hey Folks.
See thread below. We have a cool proposal to do a fun cross-disciplinary
activity in trying to build DIY microscopes with CCL and Sudo from a
talented maker guy from San Jose. Would Sudo be willing to collaborate on
this? I, as a sudo member, certainly would.
-Cere
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From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Biology/Microscope/Programming/Art/Education Hack-A-Thon
To: Thomas Zimmerman <tzim(a)us.ibm.com>
Cc: info(a)counterculturelabs.org, info(a)sudoroom.org, CCL board <
cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi Tom - sounds like a great idea! We do need to cap it at 50 and get Sudo
involved as well, since that is our max occupancy for the space that we
share with them.
I'm not sure info@sudoroom is the best email to contact them though - any
Sudo members following this conversation?
Patrik
On Jan 22, 2018 3:50 PM, "Thomas Zimmerman" <tzim(a)us.ibm.com> wrote:
Hi Sudo Room and Counter Culture Labs;
I'm organizing a biology/microscope/programming/art/education Hack-A-Thon
as part of my work in the Center For Cellular Construction (a consortium
UCSF, SFSU, UC Berkeley, Stanford, The Exploratorium and IBM Research, see
https://ccc.ucsf.edu/).
*Is this something we could do at Sudo Room and/or Counter Culture Labs? *We
are planning it for a *Saturday or Sunday in mid-April for about 50
participants, free *with registration for crowd control and to get a good
mix of people and backgrounds. We want to attract the same kind of mix of
people that go to Sudo and Counter Culture Labs; scientists, tinkerers,
DIYs, programmers, biotech professionals, hackers, artists, teachers,
educators, and citizen scientists.
We will provide about 15 microscopes, 3 different kinds (5 of each); a $20
USB optical with zoom and a wooden adjustable stand, a $10 laser projection
microscope and a $50 novel lensless stereo microscope based on the
Raspberry Pi (a microscope with it's own OS that runs Python and OpenCV!!!)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzNjJ8_zT-A and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm750WtlFN0), parts to build and modify
these microscopes, some example Python image processing code, links to free
imaging tools (e.g. Fiji ImageJ https://fiji.sc/), some hacking materials
(cardboard, hot glue, wood), slimy pond water (full of all kinds of tiny
fascinating creatures), and samples of plankton from
https://www.carolina.com/ Participants are encouraged to bring their own
slimy water and microscopic creatures (no pathogens please, my motto is "if
you can't drink it, don't bring it" ;).
The general goal is for participants to team up and produce something
(physical device, code, art work, movie, sound/music, slide show, etc) to
help make biology accessible to people using microscopes, code media (art,
music, sound, video, image, internet, multimedia), or whatever participants
can think of. We are especially interested in plankton; to raise awareness
of the complexity, beauty, variety and vital role they play in our well
being (they provide 2/3 of our oxygen, are the largest sequester of carbon
from the atmosphere, and the baby food for practically every species of
fish. However, these are suggestions, as hackers will probably have their
own view of what they want to do, which is the point of holding a
Hack-a-Thon, to encourage creativity and experimentation!
FYI I'm a hacker/inventor myself and spend a lot of time going to schools
to turn kids onto STEAM (https://makezine.com/2009/06/
23/make-contributer-thomas-zimmerman-h/ )
Regards,
Tom
Thomas G. Zimmerman
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:21:40 -0800
From: "(-pEEf-)" <peef(a)mindfart.com>
Subject: Studio/Workshop/Office available in West Berkeley Feb 1st
Excellent location in East Bay and part of an awesome collective. Across
the street from OSH Hardware and Berkeley Bowl West, and on the same block
as Discount Fabrics as well as The Shipyard and Urban Ore, as well as easy
no-permit street parking and access from I-80. Safe industrial West
Berkeley neighborhood right on the border with Emeryville and Oakland.
Ashby Bart station 1 mile away.
18' x 15' in a private quiet location on the second floor with lockable
door. Has openable window overlooking Ashby for fresh air and good natural
light on the other side with 3 windows. $490 / month including utilities
(reasonable electrical use, internet, trash). Most of the furnishings
shown are not included and will be removed at end of month.
Ideal uses are art, electronics, office, etc. No heavy fabrication please,
but light is ok. We want to avoid anything creating lots of noise or fumes
so we can maintain our great peaceful environment. Optional access to large
open 2-story area for occasional projects with loading dock and forklift.
We have blazing-fast gigabit internet with symmetrical pipes, so can be a
good choice for big data, such as video production. 24 hour access
permitted, but must respect nighttime quiet. Living in this space definitely
not permitted.
Available for move in on February 1st, month-to-month. Contact me if
you'd like to come see the space. First come first served, it will go fast!
http://ingineerix.com/pic/?xian-h1http://ingineerix.com/pic/?xian-h2http://ingineerix.com/pic/?xian-h3http://ingineerix.com/pic/?xian-h4
I just purchased two refurbished 20 megapixel Canon PowerShot ELPH 160 and
the archivist lighting assembly which includes LED bulbs, sockets, lenses,
wiring and power adapter.
Jonathon will send us the design files for the sockets mounting plate soon
as I tell him what format we need to cut it at the SUDO room: DXF or SVG or
something else?
~
http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/index6ea9.html?page_id=267
This is the page describing the plate. It would be convenient if the SUDO
room has some FR4 but as long as the material is opaque, heat proof and can
be painted black, should be no problem.
This plate will sit at the top center of the scanner. The plate also serves
to block light from entering from the top direction. Since, we need to
attach something to raise the lights higher than the original hackerspace
design, we should not cut this out yet. It does not need to be the same
shape as the archivist plate as long as the socket mounting holes are the
same.
Jonathon wrote last week:
."..you can move the lights further away from the platen. Because of
various design constraints, Daniel put the lights closer to the platen than
is ideal on that model. For later models (like Daniel's Archivist design),
the lights were been moved further away to reduce glare and hot spots. You
want to reproduce this in some way. So just build a simple frame you can
set on top of the scanner to lift the lights. There is a mathematical way
to find the minimum distance, but it might be easiest just to do it
empirically, pulling the lights away and taking sample photos until you see
that there is no reflected light source."
You can see how this the lights are put together on the archivist about
halfway down this page
http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/index9bef.html?page_id=54
Jacques
bump! does anyone want to help get one or both vending machines working? This
would be a great way to vend arduinos, ESP8266's, candy bars, and whatever else
we want to sell to sudoers and others. Much of the work has already been done.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 17:42:06 -0500
> From: jake(a)spaz.org
> Subject: [sudo-discuss] vending machine homing switch mystery solved
>
> so i've been working on the black sudoroom vending machine (vending1):
>
> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/hack-o-mat
>
> which had previously been hacked by students at UC Berkeley (i think)
>
> I believe it's a Snacktron like Emma and Ed's machine.
> (unlike our brown vending machine which is a snackshop II)
> pictures of their machine can be seen here:
> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/vend/
>
> they had ripped out the original control unit, and wired it up with a
> bunch of reed relays and an arduino. The motors of the vending machine
> are wired as a grid of rows and columns, so the controller needs to be
> able to enable a single row and column in order to power one product
> motor.
>
> But it also needs to be able to detect when the product motor has rotated
> a full turn, and is back at the "home" position where it needs to stop.
> There's a "home" sensor on the back of the motor, but the way it's wired
> was a mystery for a while. Here's some pictures of the homing circuit:
>
> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/vend/IMG_20160401_015211.jpg
> http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/vend/IMG_20160401_015700.jpg
>
> as you can see, the only difference between the button being pressed or
> not pressed, is that the 420nF capacitor is in parallel with the motor or
> not. Since the whole thing is in series with a diode (to protect against
> trying to turn a motor backwards) we were stumped as to how to detect
> whether a motor was homed or not.
>
> Thanks to Zach who donated some test equipment including this awesome
> signal generator (along with a nice power supply and bench multimeter):
> http://imgur.com/LTSFfOe
>
> I was able to connect an AC waveform in series with a 12VDC supply to one
> of the motors, and figure out how to detect whether the home switch is
> closed or not. Basically, you make a 31KHz (or similar frequency)
> squarewave in series with the power supply, and watch the current through
> the motor. If the button is open and the capacitor is not in-circuit, the
> motor's inductance absorbs the AC and the current draw is relatively
> smooth. But when the motor arrives at the home position (when you need to
> stop delivering product!) the capacitor gets switched in, and now you'll
> see a lot of the AC on the current path of the system.
>
> Here is a video showing the voltage across a 22-ohm series resistor while
> the motor is rotating with 12VDC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHIGDw5HRCg
>
> apparently it takes that motor about 11 seconds to dispense a product and
> finish returning to home position, assuming the product weighs nothing.
>
> by the way, you'll notice that i'm using the old analog oscilloscope.
> Unfortunately the LeCroy 9510 has started crashing, basically
> bluescreening. It probably needs to be opened up and cleaned, as it got
> wet after a fire before it was donated to sudoroom.
>
> Or maybe someone wants to donate a nicer oscilloscope to sudoroom?
>
> anyway, now I know how to detect the motor homing signal, and I just need
> to wire up this machine to its arduino to detect the signal and dispense
> product more accurately. If anyone wants to help, please let me know.
>
> by the way, if you are wondering how the UC students detected when the
> motors were finished dispensing product, the answer is absurd:
>
> they put a laser beam across the path where product would fall when
> dispensed, and they watched for the laser beam to be interrupted.
>
> did it work? I don't know. probably the semester ended and they got
> their grade and moved on, and then they donated the vending machine to us.
>
> -jake
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Hi all,
I'm a new member. I'm excited to be a part of this community. There are
great people and great resources in the space. I've also noticed that is
kind of disorganized, cluttered, and the organization is broke! As a medium
to long term goal I think it would be great to gain financial solvency and
be able to start saving for larger projects as well as clean up the space
and make it an amazing workspace with lots of working tools, spare parts,
and workspace.
I reviewed the articles of association and noticed a few roles that were
not apparent to me in the meetings I've attended. For me the first goal of
implementing change is identifying the leadership and working with them to
build a consensus.
Is there an existing facilitator, scribe, exchequer, and conflict steward?
Thanks,
David
Hey there privacy hackers,
The weekly privacy hackathons hosted at Noisebridge via the Cypherpunks
Write Code <https://www.meetup.com/Cypherpunks-Write-Code/> meetup group
are generally 4-10pm, but *tomorrow* (Saturday) it is *7pm to 10pm* (at
Noisebridge).
This is because of RIOTcon <https://riotcon.github.io/>, which I'm speaking
at:
RIOTcon (Radical Interactive Open Technology Conference) is a new
> conference seeking to highlight the intersections between radicalism, art,
> and technology.
RIOTcon is from 11am till 5pm. My talk is at noon, and I'll be staying for
the entire event before heading to Noisebridge for the CWC hackathon.
More details about RIOTcon, including talk
descriptions/summaries/abstracts: https://www.facebook.com/
events/2014315468855418/
I hope to see you all at the conference and/or the hackathon!
--Steve
P.S. *Of course* my talk is about Pursuance <https://pursuanceproject.org/>
!
Following on from the finances discussion during last week's meeting...
On manual review of our Stripe account, I see 36 monthly recurring dues
subscriptions through sudo-humans for a total of $1,290 per month.
There were a handful of accounts with failing transactions. (This tends
to happen when a card expires or a number changes.) However, those
accounts probably add up to <$100 per month altogether.
If we expect, say, $1,200 per month actually paid, and our sole bill is
to Omni, for $2,000, we are running an $800 shortfall. $800 over 30
people is $27 per. $800 over 15 people is $54 per.
I've just updated my plan accordingly.
As I recall, one of the big open questions from the meeting was whether
Sudo pays any other recurring bills. We know we have insurance, and use
utilities. It wasn't clear whether those are billed through Omni, and
covered by the $2,000 per month, or not.
FYI
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From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM
Subject: Plumbing work next Thursday 1/25 - NO WATER
To: discuss <discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org>
Our plumber will be doing repairs in Omni's wheelchair bathroom next
Thursday, January 25th, starting around 10am. We'll probably have to
turn off the water lines to the whole building for at least part of
the time. Thanks for understanding.
Folks, a crony gave me a 6+1 DVD duplicator and a couple of external
firewire DVD-RW burners, plus a laptop cooler pad dealer (see attached
picture).
Maybe we could use the duplicator to burner videos of an event in the
ballroom for quick distribution. I have a few spools of DVD-RWs I could
throw at it. Otherwise this stuff just goes in my e-cycling pile, though
I have to say it does make a pretty cool electronic samurai sculpture in
my living room.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&fiel…
Edlardo
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Jonathon Duerig (I believe he took over much from Daniel Reetz) responded
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i am replying your message to the sudoroom-discuss list
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, daevron wrote:
> Hey Jake!
>
> We were in touch last year about hardware hack night and I came out to a
> couple of gatherings at Sudo room.
>
> I was at the Omni today and swung by the space to ask about the laser
> cutter and had a few follow-up questions for you:
>
> Is there someone who offers facilitation in its use or is there some
> tutorial/guide I should read about it? Is there a sign-up sheet to use it
> or an ideal time this weekend/next week? Can it cut grip tape and how
> precise are the cuts?
>
> I have art organized into vector files.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> -d
>
'ello sudoers,
Omni's annual board meeting is next Thursday (the 18th). Any sudoers
interested in being a delegate and/or officer-in-training?
Robb and I have been interchangeably sudo's delegate for quite some time.
It essentially involves attending delegates meetings (1st & 3rd Thursdays
from 7-9pm) and relaying proposals to and from sudo room via the mailing
list and monthly meeting for consensus decision-making.
Nominating "officers-in-training" was Laura's suggestion. Current officers
are Lynn (president), Brian (treasurer) and myself (secretary). You'd work
with us to learn how to keep Omni running in the day-to-day. I can say from
personal experience that I've learned more over the course of the past
three years than I have in any of my academic degrees and jobs - and the
rewards of successfully hacking bureaucracy are especially sweet ^_^
Brian and I will be sending out a defined list of responsibilities this
weekend.
Additionally, I have invited the Sin Fronteras cafe folks to tomorrow's
meeting-flavored party, but haven't heard back yet. Hoping one or more of
them can make it to answer any remaining questions and we can get to know
each other.
Cheers,
Jenny
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From: Johny Radio <johnyradio(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:45 PM
Subject: [dorkbotsf-blabber] A Thousand FREE Lithium Batteries For YOU
To: Dorkbot-Blabber <dorkbotsf-blabber(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi all
An energy company donated a hundred thousand barely-used lithium
nanophosphate cells to my nonprofit org.
We need places to store them!
THE CELLS:
These are industrial-grade A123 High Power Lithium Nanophosphate
ANR26650M1A cells. They are authentic, strong and safe.
They are 26650—same height as 18650’s, but fatter.
Photos:
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Battery specs below.
THE DEAL:
In exchange for storing a few boxes of batteries, we’ll gift you approx
one- to two-thousand cells, free.
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We need to move the cells within a week.
Each box is approx 4’ x 2’ x 2’.
If we deliver to you, plz store 9 boxes minimum (we’ll have to rent a
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Gift to you will be approx 1/10th of the cells you store.
WHY YOU SHOULD HELP US J
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ANR26650M1A_Datasheet.pdf
Safety spec: https://fmo.unl.edu/sds/lithiumionbattery.pdf
2.3Ah, 3.3V nominal each
Performance: 30C continuous discharge, 60C pulse
Recommended Charge: 3A to 3.6V CCCV, 45 min
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Form factor: The cells are assembled in battery packs. Each pack contains
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