Hello all,
I just received a request from the people over at The Village, the
encampment/occupation that was set up last week at the park on MLK & 36th.
They wanted me to ask if people at the Sudoroom were able to help them get
Wi-Fi set up over there. At one of last week's Assemblies Matt Senate
suggested that Sudomesh was probably able to provide hardware for setting
up an access point.
The latest info I have (a few days old) is that Eli's across the street
would be willing to share their connection, but I'm still verifying if that
case.
Would anyone interested to help be willing to either respond here, or
preferably via Signal (my number is 510-771-7463).
Thanks, I will report back once I know more details.
Sierk
Hi Erik!!!!!! so nice to hear from you!
I would love for you to have the event at Omni!! we have a booking system and
here's a link. I just looked at the calendar for you (which is the first step)
and it looks to me like February 19th is clear!!!!!!! That's assuming you want
the main ballroom, which i think would be awesome.
https://omnicommons.org/occupy
don't worry about the second tuesday thing.. just say that Jake from Sudoroom
wants to sponsor this event and that we want to reserve the ballroom for that
date. As soon as your request comes in, i'll push to get it confirmed.
I'm assuming we can collect donations of some kind to give to the Omni for use
of the space? Just whatever is normal for an event like this at Gilman i
guess. That's one of the questions on the form you'll see at the above link.
Also, sudoroom will be able to supply a lot of cool electronic STUFF for the
tables, so i think people who come to this will be very pleased.
-jake
note: sudoroom constantly has a big e-waste pile, and if you think the event
will add to the unwanted electronics pile, we should plan for someone to take a
truck to Universal Waste in Fruitvale after the event to clear it all out.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Erik Miller wrote:
> Jake,
>
> I hope you have been well. Mitch Altman gave me this email address, and I
> have been trying to reach you over the past couple of years using what I
> think must be out-of-date contact information.
>
> I wanted to ask about how Sudo Room is doing and all that, but Mitch says
> it’s thriving. I’ve been to the website a couple of times and was amazed and
> amused to find out that (according to the website anyway) you are in the old
> Omni building. I worked for Nady Systems from 1986 to 1991, right during the
> time when it was a thriving venue for at first a pretty cool eclectic mix,
> and then later, pay-to-play hair metal.
>
> Anyway, 924 Gilman told me that the traditional 3rd Sunday in February would
> be fine, and I printed up a pile of handbills and started to go around
> promoting the event, an event page on Facebook that got really good
> attention, and my first physical stop being Ace Monster Toys’ open house
> night. I really want to lay into the “DIY Electronics” part this year, as we
> have attracted plenty of the “Musicians” part in the past couple of them and
> I want to balance it out and get back to the kind of thing where you and
> Mitch met, get the maker/hardware hacker/tinkerers interested. I have a
> variety of surplus components to give away, a bit of redistribution that I
> figured you would like.
>
> Anyway, right after my visit to Ace, Gilman’s booker told me that the day
> they had promised had been taken for an event that the landlord (The Caning
> Shop) was doing, and suggested February 26th, the following Sunday.
>
> Now they are telling me that there’s something going on that day and how
> about Saturday the 25th?
>
> It’s just a month away at this point and I need to be able to promote it with
> a definite date, and I would like a Sunday.
>
> My question: is there enough space for it at Sudo Room, and would you be
> interested in hosting the event this year? It would be on Sunday the 19th
> (the original date) or Sunday the 26th.
>
> Please let me know yea or nay ASAP, as our time frame to promote the event is
> ever narrowing.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik Miller
> Euthymia Electronics
> 510-872-9458
>
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> I'll see what I can manage. Do you have a datasheet for the latch
> release scheme you're using?
i don't understand. you just flip the pin high for a few seconds like it does
in the code and it unlatches the door.
i guess you probably mean the motor controller shield, which is listed on line
12 of the code: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoMotorShieldR3
but we won't be using that anymore, so the latch function will be very simple,
just flipping a pin to undo the latch.
the complicated part will be driving the three-phase permanent-magnet motor
that I just rigged up, which will be the front-door opener for the omni:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/omnidoormotor1.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FUp1dvu.jpg
basically i will be controlling about 6 pins to drive that motor, and
monitoring 2 pins which will tell me quadrature of its position for that
purpose. and another output pin will control the latch.
this is a diagram of a similar motor, except it shows three hall-effect sensors
and i think our motor might only have two, is that possible? I need to look.
http://www.avdweb.nl/Article_files/Solarbike/Motor-controller/4-Pole-brushl…
this is the chip in the motor controller that I will be using, i worked on it
last night and am half-done wiring it up:
http://www.intersil.com/en/products/space-and-harsh-environment/harsh-envir…
there are three of those, to control two three-phase permanent-magnet motors,
because each motor needs three I-bridges. Since we only need one motor to move
the door, i'll just use one of the ones on the second side for the latch
solenoid.
here are pictures of what i was doing last night:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2017-01/doormotor.html
all you need to do is get the RFID code that Henner wrote to compile in
arduino, and i can do the rest. what do you think of that?
i look forward to working with you on this, i think it will be more fun and
rewarding than some of the stuff we were doing before, since we'll actually be
getting the door to open and close from software. the other thing is that
there's more of a deadline on this project, since we're apparently able to get
in trouble for not being ADA compliant.
-jake
