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transborder immigrant tool (TBT) -> undocumented immigrant mobile phone app art project

by Romy Ilano

One of the most well done usability mobile phone apps I've ever seen. Some artist academics created a feature phone mobile app for undocumented immigrants on the San Diego/Tijuana desert border. It was a very simple compass app that also had a tuning fork feature. the closer the immigrants came to hidden water reserves left out by charities and activists, the more the phone would vibrate. This was to solve the problem of immigrants dying of thirst in the desert. Of course they got into trouble... <3 http://hyperallergic.com/54678/poetry-immigration-and-the-fbi-the-transbord… Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0 <http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_edtheater.h…> /b.a.n.g. lab <http://bang.calit2.net/> released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool <http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/> (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California desert. In 2010, the project caused a firestorm of controversy on the American political scene, and the artists of EDT/b.a.n.g. lab were investigated by three Republican Congressmen, the FBI Office of Cybercrimes and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum) and principal investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, is an associate professor in the visual arts department. framework and open artist apis http://www.walkingtools.net ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 years, 10 months

great meeting! yay!

by yar

Tonight's meeting was the most productive, fun, well-attended and non-dramatic Sudoroom meeting in ages. Congrats, everyone! Here are the notes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2015-06-03

10 years, 10 months

I need a new computer

by James Beatty

I work with FNB and need a new computer. I need a floppy drive if possible. thanks.

10 years, 10 months

Counter Culture Labs' Kickstarter - Please Forward this message!

by Louis Huang

Citizen Scientists and Hackers of the World, Counter Cultures Labs' Kickstarter [1] to upgrade its current lab is almost 80% funded, but we only have a few days left! We're getting very close to our goal so WE NEED people to help spread the word. Counter Culture Labs is made by and for the community. We are committed to being YOUR biohacking & citizen science lab. Exploring science and the mysteries of the universe is something everyone should be able to do. We are here to support dreamers to find new innovations. The most creative products were made, not in industry or academia, but from people tinkering in their backyards and garages because they love it. Let's give people access to their potential! We need the community to help spread the word about our Kickstarter and the awesome prizes [1] we have such as a hackerspace/biohackerspace passport, a bacterial culture necklace, and/or a bacteria we discovered named after you. Check em out, [1] and please forward this message! With love, Counter Culture Labs PS: Our fundraiser event [2] has been postponed to Tuesday, June 9th @ 8pm, address 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland. See y'all there :) Links: ------ [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836537355/counter-culture-labs-your-b… [2] http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/221415647/

10 years, 10 months

HAX: funding for hardware projects

by Mitch Altman

Do you have a hardware project you'd like to put out into the world? I am a mentor at HAX (formerly HAXLR8R). We choose 15 groups of people with cool hardware projects, give a small pile of money for your project, you live in Shenzhen, China for 3 months, have access to way cool tools and mentors, the groups all help each other, you learn a lot, and have a blast. And you make your project into a product that goes out into the world. At the end of the 3 days there's a big Demo Day in San Francisco where everyone shows off their projects, with plenty of media attention, and even angel investors. The deadline for the upcoming group is extended a few days. If you're interested, please submit your proposal here: http://www.hax.co/ Cheers, Mitch.

10 years, 10 months

TiL gensim: Similarity Queries

by Romy

Are we still doing today I learned? I'd like to learn some Python https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/tut3.html#similarity-interface Sent from my iPhone

10 years, 10 months

inkjet printer head

by Ben Siegfried

peoples, does anyone have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I could hack on? Or does sudoroom have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I could hack on? I'm specifically interested in the print head and nozzles, it doesn't need to have ink or working motors or anything and if anyone's ever played with print heads before, I would love some pointers Ben

10 years, 10 months

La Commune Counter

by niki

Hey! I don't know if Sam is on the Sudo Discuss list but if not, could someone please forward this message to him (I don't often see him in the space these days!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Sam, This is Niki from La Commune. I'd like to ask that you please stop going behind the La Commune counter. If you want to make coffee, I can find another coffee make to put somewhere in the kitchen upstairs but the coffee and coffee maker behind the La Commune counter is not for the "cafe" / bookstore. In order for La Commune to function, we need to keep this space in order and we have requested that anyone who is not a member of La Commune please refrain from using this space. Thanks a lot in advance for you understanding! Niki

10 years, 10 months

Public Service Announcement

by Adam Munich

The eInk display controller in older Kindles is apparently speaking in SDIO. Cheers, -Adam

10 years, 10 months

why i hate when people "clean up"

by Jake

someone "cleaned" the 3d printer table and now the guitar string that we use to clear up clogs in the nozzle is missing. don't clean up something if you don't know how to use it! i'd rather have a functional 3d printer or soldering setup than a clean, useless table. i fixed the motor drivers on the type A machine 3d printer, now we just need another guitar string to clean the nozzle and we're back in business. -jake

10 years, 10 months

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