Hello!
This is Christine Hodges. You may or may not know me from the circles I
move in: I'm a former tech worker, hackerspace user, meetup.com
participant, effective altruism/rationality community adjacent, member of
First Church Berkeley UCC.
So I got a new job teaching technology at an elementary school in Oakland.
I'd like to give my 230+ Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade
students great, hands-on learning opportunities with electronics and
coding: a STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). I
have a plan to introduce electronics concepts, bring in physical computing,
then tie that to software coding later in the school year. But I want
students to have hands-on experiences first. This requires stuff like LEDs,
batteries, electronic building blocks, etc.
Thus I started a series of DonorsChoose.org projects to fundraise for these
class materials.
And guess what: some anonymous donors will match every donation so it cuts
the cost in half! Yay! I think this matching will be available all this
week, maybe longer, but I don't know.
And now I'm asking you if you could please chip in while I have this
matching offer. A $10 donation becomes $20. $100 becomes $200!
3 projects posted, many minds educated...
1) The #1 priority project is the basic electronics components and only
needs $339 to be fully funded:
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/intro-to-circuits/4347772/
2) Electronic building blocks gets students creating at a higher level of
abstraction - needs $221
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/electronic-building-blocks/4348639/
3) Makey Makey devices bridge hardware to software - needs $385
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/from-circuits-to-coding-with-makey-mak…
Thanks so much for your participation! Feel free to pass this along to
potentially interested people.
Christine
Dear Sudoers,
Please join me and noffle this Sunday afternoon at the space to learn about and use Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). SSB is a peer-to-peer network and protocol for decentralized social media sharing and other applications. We will:
- Answer questions about SSB
- Show what the network has to offer
- Help you install SSB software on your computer and get connected to the network
- Troubleshoot any problems.
@ Sudo Room
12pm-6pm, Sunday, August 11, 2019.
SSB Gathering ID: %8kwkn1hB75LP9Pr67HjU03KwzTDChJju7oCbpVUgfFM=.sha256
Sincerely,
~cel (Charles E. Lehner)
Hi Sudoroom,
I'm Chris, and I'm helping out with Pybay 2019. We're having a maker event the night of August 17 and I thought of SudoRoom. Pybay is a community-driven python conference in San Francisco, August 17 - 18. This year keynote speakers include Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and Raymond Hettinger, cPython core dev. Other notable speakers include Bryan Siepert from Adafruit and Rachel Thomas, cofounder of fast.ai.
The maker event will let people showcase their homemade hardware/IOT projects. I'm interested in talking with any members who would like a table. The robot arm and sudo mesh projects both looked really interesting. Also, I do have some free tickets for nonprofits. So if either People's Open Network or Sudoroom are interested in having a table as a group, I would have a few free tickets available.
Sincerely,
Chris Matthews
makers(a)pybay.com
Pybay 2019: https://pybay.com/
Maker Event: https://pybay.com/events/
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One of the things that makes PyBay such a fun conference is the hallway track, where casual sharing with another amazing developer inspires novelty solutions to problems, useful open-source contributions, or a new friendship.
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Hey guys,.
I did a basic mopping of Sudoroom last night (without moving furniture),
and was able to remove a lot of silt dust that was everywhere. I also only
used water, as my objective was to capture dust.
There is still big particles the mopping could not pick up; yet sweeping
will resolve. I also had to circulate five mop buckets because it was so
dusty. It also had taken about an hour and a half.
It would be good in the near future to have a Sudo Mop party day, with
volunteers, to help move furniture back and forth, and have at least 2-3
people mopping. This would be a very effective way to bring all of the dust
to an optimal minimum.
The time would be shortened with another mopped as well :-).
I'll spear head a near future day when I less busy.
Cheers.
Thanks to a huge recent donation, sudoroom now has a TON of materials for
hosting electronics soldering workshops for newbies wanting to build arduinos,
mignonette games http://www.mignonette-game.com and
TV-B-Gones http://www.mignonette-game.com and many other cool kits!
The donation included a ton of snips (we were almost out of them!) and
soldering irons and probably a lot of other important things.
I already nominally host "Hardware Hacking Tuesdays" and I am totally down to
support people wanting to build these kits on those tuesdays, but I think we
should consider scheduling weekly events just focused on building kits, if
people have the time to dedicate to hosting such events.
Either way, anyone who is interested should participate in sorting and labeling
the donations and ideally trying to get the parts for the above-described kits
in order so that people can grab them, buy them from sudoroom, and then build
them.
thanks again for the donation!!!!!!!!
Hello Sudo room I went through the laser cutter system and environment
thoroughly, and we are now able to use it at 24/7.
there are a couple of loose connections inside that I solded alligator
clips to to clip onto the laser itself.
I replaced the 4-ft water pump hoses with 6'1 so that there's slack with
the laser system and water canister.
I cleaned out the water canister a bit and replaced the water.
Ripped out all the old tape that partially covered some of the gaps in the
ventilation system. I'd redone it thoroughly with new foil tape.
I have truncated all excess hosing on the short ventilation run for better
air flow. I also compressed all of the excess hosing on the larger run for
better airflow as well. All of the slack has been removed from both sides.
I ventilation leak test by engaging the laser into a thick piece of wood
for about 30 seconds, which has also cause flames to be admitted from it
while firing. The test has passed as their husband no smell of of smoke
inside Sudo To with it on for that period of time.
I am full of excitement, ambition, joy, and hackery, to let everybody know
that our MLE-40 laser system is back online. it hasn't been too long
because it hasn't been done again until now.
🤗😆🙃❤️
The first email I sent was two large two send (with the three photos I
attached), so I'm hacking around it by adding a screenshot of the original
email with the three photos.
I was working on a project with it yesterday and it's really efficient.
Improvements are a Space big enough to work on 4x8 flats, a table that's
easy to clamp to. Overall study as well.
