Hello List,
I am available tomorrow morning (Friday 9/19/14) after 9 to help do whatever kinda things need doing (incl. manual labor) around the Omni. How can I help?
Ben
John the landlord just came through Sudo & CCL with a couple roofing
contractors. He is going to pay to replace all the skylights in CCL &
Sudo next week. We have six. They expect to replace two per day on
Tuesday (23), Wednesday (24) and Thursday (25), moving from north to
south. Work may extend into Friday. They are requesting that we clear
the areas underneath so they can lay tarps and avoid
death/destruction/mayhem. So that means:
On Tuesday, CCL should push stuff towards Sudo
On Wednesday, CCL & Sudo should clear stuff from the middle
On Thursday, Sudo should push stuff towards CCL
We don't have to move everything, they can lay tarps over things and
figure out how to work around, but we will certainly want to move some
stuff.
The new skylights won't be bubbles, but will be flat safety glass. A
contractor told me "a person could walk on one". So this will be great
once we get roof access. Also if we ever see rain again.
Sorry for cross-posting to so many lists. Please remove lists from
your reply as necessary. :)
the robot has an external disk drive which is connected to it with a
25-pin serial cable. The disk drive unit is a computer in itself, with a
lot of functionality. It boots up in "ERC MODE" meaning it's ready to
talk to the YASNAC ERC, our robot control computer.
i spied on the conversation between the robot and the disk drive while the
robot loaded a file. I saved the conversation using the salae logic
program:
https://www.saleae.com/downloads
if you run this program you can open the save file i saved:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/floppy-loadafile.logicdata
you will see that the format matches closely that which is described by
the communications manual:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479236-17-Communications.pdf
the baud rate is 4800 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, EVEN parity.
it's connected to the 3d printer computer if you want to write a program
to pretend to be a disk drive. then we can send it programs without
having to use ancient floppy diskettes.
to talk to it from that computer (whose IP address is .42.8) just run a
script called "robot" in ~sudodesk/bin/robot
it calls screen /dev/ttyS0 4800,parenb,-parodd
(that's how you get even parity with screen)
when i open that terminal, and then go to the floppy menu from the robot,
it sends the following (? means unprintable character):
ENQ?ENQ?ENQ?CAN+?CAN+?CAN+?EOT?
which means, probably; HEY ARE YOU THERE?
HEY ARE YOU THERE?
HEY ARE YOU THERE?
NEVER MIND.
NEVER MIND.
NEVER MIND.
I'M HANGING UP NOW.
see if you can get the robot to load a file from an imaginary disk drive.
-jake
Greetings, Noisebridge and friends,
With the Reboot process behind us, the REMIX now begins.
We're calling out to friends old and new to come celebrate our hard-won
ability to **create anew** in the month in which Noisebridge first moved
into its first physical space in 2008.
"One Art, Please!"
If you can volunteer art, music, performance, blinkenlights, 3D printed
trinkets -- or if you have any cool ideas to share about the concept of
"REMIX" -- email us by replying to this email or chatting us up on Slack in
the #reboot channel.
Much love,
Naomi
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new blog post > Troy our librarian visited RPS Collective.
we chatted about potentially selling our electronics kits + other stuff at
RPS Collective retail space.
- There's a potential for us to sell stuff at their next art show, which
will be a full retail show in the whole space. Lots of potential for
exposure since they are the first storefront at First Friday
Plus they have collaborated with us before!
https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-connects-with-rock-paper-scissors-down-the-st…
[image: SudoRoom Librarian Troy visits
SudoRoom]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-33-01-PM1.jpg>
SudoRoom Librarian Troy visits SudoRoom
Troy, the SudoRoom librarian, visits our neighbors The Rock Paper Scissors
Collective <http://www.rpscollective.com/>down the street. The RPS
Collective was one of the worker’s collectives that helped start the
Oakland Art Murmur. Here he checks out the zine library and is already
coming up with ideas for different community projects.
A recent SudoRoom collaboration involved SudoRoom donating Linux computers
to RPS Collective in exchange for a beautiful sign painting. It’s pretty
cool seeing the different volunteer-run collectives creating and helping
each other out!
[image: RPS Collective interns draw temporary tattoos on people for the
Oakland Art Murmur]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-01-8-06-59-PM1.jpg>
RPS Collective interns draw temporary tattoos on people for the Oakland Art
Murmur
[image: Terrarium Project at RPS Collective - so many happy
people]<https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-Nov-02-1-33-43-PM-11.…>
Terrarium Project at RPS Collective – so many happy people
Still trying to achieve fire safety & ADA accessibility by Saturday.
Lots of things happening tomorrow morning. We need:
Someone who can drive a U-haul full of waste to the following places:
* hazardous waste
* e-waste
* recycling
* solid waste
We can tell you where to go. The truck needs to be returned by
12:30pm. You'll probably need to start by 8am.
Someone to help the wheelchair lift installer starting around 9am -
simple stuff like holding and fetching tools.
And as many people as we can for spare hands during bathroom construction.
Thanks so much!!
so I was able to use a primitive magnetic encoding sequencer to read robot
programs from a flat magnetic tape.
We had some antique (literally 25 years old) diskettes in the computer
history museum, and I fed one to the robot, and then "saved" all the
programs written so far to the "diskette"
then, i used a mechanical diskette-reader for a desktop computer (which
needed lubrication on its rusty motors and slides and quite a bit of
fiddling to work) to read this magnetic tape "diskette"
the filesytem format is nothing recognized by 'mount' so i was forced to
simply dd the binary of the diskette's image to a file. I have posted the
file here:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/robofloppy.2
and then i edited that with vim to extract the programs within.
here is a simple program that makes 7 poses, and repeats:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/baby.txt
this is a more raw version of all the jobs i found on the disk image,
including some fragmentation. I don't understand the filesystem format,
so it's just luck that so many of the files were intact in one piece.
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/jobs.txt
as you can see, a program is a list of coordinates (the six hardware axes
of the robot arm) and then a program referring to those coordinates. it
can be more complicated than that of course, for example when we start
using base or robot coordinates for 3d printing, but here it is anyway.
this stuff is documented in this PDF:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479236-17-Communications.pdf
and also, i think we might find the serial communications format used by
the "diskette drive" to communicate with the robot, so we can skip the
magnetic media entirely and send programs directly to the robot over
serial.
please let me know if you're interested in this stuff and want to try
something.
-jake
I'm in for a late shift (after 8pm)!
On Sep 16, 2014 3:05 PM, "Stephen Novotny" <novotny.stephen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'll be there as soon as I get off work, between 5:30 and 6!
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All. Not much notice but there is a 17' rental truck outside for
>> general omni debris removal. It needs to be loaded up with:
>> - Excess garbage (several bags)
>> - Construction debris from bathroom repair (lots)
>> - Ceiling tiles from ballroom (these are light, so may want to go in
>> last/on top)
>> - Stuff from Sudo that sudo doesn't want (the present 'to go away' piles)
>> - Stuff frrom basement that we don't want/need
>> - All City of Berkeley-stamped grey garbage cans probably should be
>> returned since Waste Management does not pick them up and they fill with
>> garbage.
>>
>> No one is really here and I am starting to do it by myself and would
>> appreciate help. If I do this then I can't work on the bathroom, which
>> needs to be done by Friday.
>>
>> All the waste needs to be driven to the following places tomorrow AM &
>> returned by 12:30pm
>> - Commercial Waste & Recycling by the Colesium (they open real early)
>> - E-waste place (in berkeley I think) for all e-waste
>> - the Oakland Dump tomorrow AM and returned by 12:30.
>>
>> We need to generally remove junk from here that we don't need as this
>> really is required by fire - it can't be a total mess in the basement or
>> any area to be (re)inspected. We have a general mission of clearing out
>> junk from the omni to comply. This was specifically mentioned by the fire
>> inspector - everything should look like its 'in its place' (his words.)
>>
>> Any and all help appreciated.
>>
>> David
>>
>
>
Hi All. Not much notice but there is a 17' rental truck outside for general
omni debris removal. It needs to be loaded up with:
- Excess garbage (several bags)
- Construction debris from bathroom repair (lots)
- Ceiling tiles from ballroom (these are light, so may want to go in
last/on top)
- Stuff from Sudo that sudo doesn't want (the present 'to go away' piles)
- Stuff frrom basement that we don't want/need
- All City of Berkeley-stamped grey garbage cans probably should be
returned since Waste Management does not pick them up and they fill with
garbage.
No one is really here and I am starting to do it by myself and would
appreciate help. If I do this then I can't work on the bathroom, which
needs to be done by Friday.
All the waste needs to be driven to the following places tomorrow AM &
returned by 12:30pm
- Commercial Waste & Recycling by the Colesium (they open real early)
- E-waste place (in berkeley I think) for all e-waste
- the Oakland Dump tomorrow AM and returned by 12:30.
We need to generally remove junk from here that we don't need as this
really is required by fire - it can't be a total mess in the basement or
any area to be (re)inspected. We have a general mission of clearing out
junk from the omni to comply. This was specifically mentioned by the fire
inspector - everything should look like its 'in its place' (his words.)
Any and all help appreciated.
David
