I have a 50" TV that I'd like to donate to Sudo.
It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black. I
don't have time to chase down the issue, but maybe someone there can
diagnose the problem during one of the FixIt clinics.
Shall I drop it off?
Patrik
Hello everyone, I think we aight to have a meeting today despite the cold
rain. Who can come out?
I'm sorry I didn't call this earlier, I've just started a new job and I've
been so busy. Anyone know how useable the sudo room is with the work being
done?
See you soon, drive carefully with all the wetness.
William
Hi everyone,
I seem to be plagued with too many electric vehicles, from about 10-20 years
ago. They are really cool and fun to drive, but they need work and I'm out of
space and time to store and work on them.
Most of them are 2002 Toyota RAV4 EVs, which many people don't even know were
ever made. Here's the wikipedia page on them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generation_(1997)
If you have a place to park a project car and interest in working on one,
please let me know. If you are a PG&E customer, you can get up to $4000
(depending on your income) for buying a used EV like this (whether it drives
or not)
I will be fixing mine and my friend's over the next few months and I can help
you fix yours too. Just let me know if you're interested.
-jake
Hi,
The roof repairs are still going on, and we are getting A LOT of the tar
debris in sudo room. We did some cleanup Saturday and Monday, but I'm sure
there will be more debris coming down, and it will be a lot of work to get
the lab benches clear again.
We put up one more tarp, but more would be great to cover all the lab
benches.
Also Thurs/Friday Free Store + CALLI (building owners) are running this
event. If Sudo Room has items wanting to give away, we could join. I'll be
there on Friday if anyone would like to coordinate.
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Paige
Hi all, I've been trying to find a Mini-XLR Female to 3.5mm Female adapter
but I haven't been able to find one. There were a few on Amazon but the
reviews all said the left and right audio were reversed...
My current idea is to instead purchase a Mini-XLR Female replacement head
and solder on a 3.5mm Female head with attached cable. But I see different
cable styles attached to the 3.5mm, there is a 2 cable version and also 3
cable version? And it sounds like this is Mono vs Stereo? But the XLR talks
about "Ground, Hot, and Cold" and I can't tell how this maps onto the 3.5mm
cabling? If we have any people knowledgeable about audio cabling would love
help untangling this mystery, thanks!
Gr33t1ngs
I’m Hex Ripley [it / its]
I came in yesterday (nov 26) for the fix it clinic, had a lot of fun meeting y’all and working on to virtual machine set ups, working on the upstairs 3D printer, & helping come up with a solution to fix the roof rack cargo box.
I’d like to be a member to contribute monetarily and with labor. I love doing electronics repair and I want to make use of my skills in a way that can help others. I’d love to participate in the fix it clinic regularly & also I’d be happy to work on the laptops in order to get them functioning for donation, teach people some electronic troubleshooting & repair should the opportunity be available. Also happy to be additional hands on any facilities work. Basically I think y’all are cool and I’m here to be useful :)
Want to mention that I live in Guerneville, happy to drive in & also would be happy to carpool people who live in the Sonoma/Marin area as well.
Current projects I’ve got going:
I have an IBM Thinkpad 701c (the one with the cool keyboard!!!) that I want to restore - failing that, it will be up-cycled with a more modern motherboard & screen, preserving the keyboard.
Other Projects in various stages of incompleteness:
- USB-C to Barrel Jack chargers
- search.server.lgbt (my SearxNG instance, google/ddg search proxy)
- 2010 Lenovo ThinkServer Rebuild (may end up in a colocation center… eventually?)
- Ender 3 repairs (never ending ;-;)
- iPhone powered Pwnagotchi case
- Mini Model M keyboard cyber deck
- punk.lgbt (lgbt / womens healthcare resource directory, not up currently, looking into threat model)
https://youtu.be/lczgUj4InX0?si=Bcl4yUdxnin3ZLpG
This is really cool there’s this guy in Oakland growing tons of food on his roof does anyone at Sudoroom know him it be cool to feature him on our page and maybe say hi I don’t know if he’s open to that though he looks sort of busy but this is really cool we could possibly do a collaboration inspired by him and work with Counterculture Labs
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Dear Sudoroom,
It's been almost three years since this telescreen was set up with Jitsi, on
the wall in sudoroom. A few months ago the computer got taken, so I set up a
new one, and Matty is trying to get the automated software working again so
it's automatic and turns the screen off when no one is joined.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bigtv
How do people feel about the telescreen? Do people like having this in place
so that people can connect with the space from elsewhere? How could it be
improved?
Also a reminder, we have a telephone and the number is I-HACK-AT-386
For a while the telephone was switching off but i recently made something that
automatically reboots it when that happens, so it should be pretty reliable
now.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800
From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic(a)gmail.com>
To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom!
Rejoice in the hacker wizardry of the new Telepresence Portal
Jake and I wrapped it up today and hackerspace futurism has been achieved
the monitor will turn on if any Sudoers join the jitsi chatroom
and it will shut off if everyone leaves the chat
here is the source for the chat client app powering it
https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal
hooray!
-matty/interrupt
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:50 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> wow, this has progressed a lot!
>
> tonight, in the jitsi chat, which is here:
> https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
>
> matt and me (to the entertainment of everyone passing through sudoroom and
> working in there) have been chatting and co-hacking, and i've been learning
> npm/node/react web stuff.
>
> basically we installed the jitsi SDK repo and ran it, and then hacked it
> to go
> to the meeting room we've been using instead of the default setting - and
> now
> we're adding a function to it to automatically control the screen power
> (screensaver) depending on whether someone is in the "room" or not.
>
> we're also sharing a tmux window in the machine (the one controlling the
> big
> TV) and teaching each other lots of stuff. And neither of us are
> physically in
> the space!
>
> It's the most exciting saturday night i've had in a long time!
>
> If anyone else is interested in this kind of social hacking, speak up and
> i'll
> ping you if it happens again. Or just join the jitsi room (linked above)
> and
> leave it open until someone starts talking to you.
>
> last night (friday night) we had a bunch of people join the chat!!!
> including
> a couple of people who randomly hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years!
> It was basically a party, including whoever was in sudoroom, and like 6
> different people who rolled through the jitsi chat.
>
> -jake
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Jake wrote:
>
>> awesome! I believe this is what Matty is working on too
>>
>> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-web-sdk
>>
>> that was so much fun with everyone talking to each other tonight!
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Marc Juul wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:37 AM Jake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've set up a jitsi terminal on the wall in Sudoroom!
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a big TV made by Hitachi, and it has a feature where it can go
> into
>>>>> "power saving" mode when the HDMI signal is lost. That means the
> screen
>>>>> can power down when DPMS puts the monitor to "sleep". It has a webcam
>>>>> that's clearly labeled, and on a hinge so it can easily be aimed down
> at
>>>>> the floor if people are shy, and it has a Jabra USB speaker/microphone
>>>>> thing which should hopefully provide good speakerphone
> functionality. I
>>>>> have the computer setup to start firefox, and i have firefox set to
> open
>>>>> the jitsi page, where permissions are already enabled for
> webcam/audio.
>>>>> The only remaining need is to automatically wake the monitor from
> sleep
>>>>> (using "DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms on") whenever there is anyone else
>>>>> detected in the jitsi "room"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wrote a short program that can trigger a command based on downstream
>>>> bandwidth usage:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/sudoroom/bw-trigger
>>>>
>>>
>>> So it turned out that the library I used doesn't really work for UDP :/
>>>
>>> The correct solution is definitely to have a client that joins with
> XMPP.
>>> Information is sparse but I found this code that I believe is for
>>> stress-testing that should be modifiable into what we need:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs
>>>
>>> Relevant code in:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs/blob/master/src/Participant.js
>>>
>>> --
>>> marc/juul
>>>
>>
>
https://sudoroom.org/december-2024-newsletter/
This is a condensed place to see what's going on at SudoRoom
would love it if people had short blurbs about their projects/. photographs
of them doing hackerish things around town! =D
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
