Hi!
You can sign up to be a part of a focus group to provide input on what
important things should be taught in CS classes in California starting in
2019. The application is due by October 14th, and the SF focus group meets
on Nov. 16th. More info here:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/computerscicontentstds.asp
I think it would be awesome to get hackers, activists and open source / P2P
peeps in on developing these standards. Otherwise, it will be others who
determine the fate of CS education in California schools. dun dun dunnnnn...
yes the ad says $50 but if you're actually interested in it you can have
it for free, assuming you can come to west oakland to pick it up.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/atq/5797796061.html
it probably works if you just plug it in, although you should bring up the
voltage slowly with a variac since the capacitors are probably.. whatever
old capacitors do when they sit for a long time. we can do that together
before you put it in your car.
or you can rip out all the electronics and put a VGA monitor and raspberry
pi in the cabinet, whatever you want.
-jake
i just found a 10.5" X 20" electric hotplate yesterday.
it's on the projects shelves past the robot arm w/a note about component
removal use on it.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Trent Robbins <robbintt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jake! I was planning on doing it by hand, but it would be neat to
> try the mechanical one at sudo room.
>
> Trent
>
> On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> a hotplate covered with clean sand heated up to 400 degrees (celsius)
>> will be a surface on which you can place a circuitboard covered with such
>> switches, and then you can pluck them out of the board as their solder
>> melts. This is how old boards had their parts salvaged from them back when
>> people still did that.
>>
>> if you don't have the right hotplate and you want to use a skillet
>> instead, you'll likely have to cut the circuitboard in half or thirds so
>> that it will be small enough to fit in the skillet of sand. no big deal.
>>
>> you could also remove them one at a time, using a desoldering tool.
>> There's a motorized one at sudoroom, which is basically a gun-shaped
>> soldering iron with a hollow tip and a foot-pedal activated vacuum pump.
>> You could use that to pull the solder out of the hole for one of the two
>> pins of each key, and then use a regular soldering iron to heat up the
>> second one while pulling the key out with the other hand.
>>
>> good luck,
>> -jake
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Trent Robbins wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know a good way to salvage from 101-105 mx brown keyboard
>>> switches?
>>>
>>> I'm planning on building my own keyboard this fall or winter and have
>>> plenty of time to source scrap.
>>>
>>> http://cubiq.org/build-your-very-own-pc-keyboard
>>>
>>> Build process is as complex as you'd expect.
>>>
>>> Teensy firmware: https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Trent
>>>
>>>
>
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Was there supposed to be a potluck in Sudo this evening?
One guy showed up, and even brought something to share. He sat in Sudo for
an hour or so, and then left.
I was busy with other stuff in ccl, so I only noticed when he was on his
way out the door...
Patrik
Does anyone know a good way to salvage from 101-105 mx brown keyboard
switches?
I'm planning on building my own keyboard this fall or winter and have
plenty of time to source scrap.
http://cubiq.org/build-your-very-own-pc-keyboard
Build process is as complex as you'd expect.
Teensy firmware: https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard
Trent
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