I have a small amount of time to drop by SudoRoom and Counter Culture labs this month.
I decided it's would be fun to write some October goals. Here's a picture to boot!
Habitual
- every time I go to SudoRoom and back, leave something creative behind like a drawing
- say hi to everyone and remember we are all creative fun animals - face to face is so nice! And remote will never quite replace that
- See what cool projects other people are working on
- facilitate the creativity between the spaces (especially counter culture labs, sudoroom and then be inspired by the interdisciplinary creativity from folks like Ceremony who are doing a science and art meetup
- get the word out on SudoRoom fundraising
So that's what I've been doing.
But for longer term projects:
October goals at SudoRoom
- getting ready for Snowboarding - going to SudoRoom to understand how my snowboard is made, understand how to repair things, understand how to fix things if I need to (even if I don't), potentially donate snowboard equipment to SudoRoom for others to use as long as it's not a storage space issue
- Jump start the old accessibility projects - a few years ago I broke my ankle, and had a lively discussion with many Noisebridge and SudoRoom folks about cheaper alternatives to current medical hardware, which tends to be proprietary and overpriced, and even ugly
- somehow start again the Art & MRI project that we had. We had some discussion and it tapered off. I'd like to make a book or something.
- make a few SudoRoom stickers
- see if anyone is doing some kind of virtual reality education project at SudoRoom
- do some kind of iphone or ipad pro project involving accessibility. This is my handicraft by day and I'd rather stick to one thing instead of being distracted by ten million platforms. That being said, there are an amazing amount of accessibility APIs with apple and I want to use that knowledge for good
So everyone, what are your October goals? It's so refreshing seeing old faces again..
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Hi,
I have an extra tern link folding bike.
The gears are janky but it's functioning. In the long term the gears will
have to be replaced but that would be more than the cost of a new bike.
However, the bike is working and might be of use to folks.
Is there space at SudoRoom and CounterCulture labs for this bike? I think
it might be a useful addition to the SudoBike!
It folds, so when folded it doesn't take that much space...
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
the front door computer does not appear to be on the network.
i'm guessing people are still using their cards to get in, but if there's
a problem, for example if it gets unplugged from electricity and switches
to battery backup, we will not be notified and will not know to send help.
can someone take a look at the ethernet situation over there and see why
it's not getting back to the main network?
-jake
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
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> (Sent from cellphone)
>
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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
