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Date: 2014-09-14 21:29 GMT-07:00
Subject: [sfchalkboard] NEED Alaskan Chainsaw Mill
To: sfchalkboard <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net>
Hey everyone,
This might be far fetched, but does anyone have an Alaska and Chainsaw Mill
or another jig of sorts for cutting lumber?
Was offered some Redwood logs, would love to mill them but not finding any
DIY solutions out there! Some potential to weld something together but
dunno if they would be able to in the time they want the logs out of there
: (
Thanks a bunch!
Bests,
J
Hi everyone,
LOL Makerspace <http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/> is having an
anti-black racism edit-a-thon on 9/22:
"LOL Hackers are organizing a wiki edit-a-thon addressing anti-black
racism. Come out to help us continue planning the edit-a-thon. We can go
through the Oakland Wiki and Wikipedia and identify pages that we can work
on and guidelines and logistics to help make the edit-a-thon accessible and
fun! You're also welcome to come and work on other projects, too … Hack
Night is open to everyone!"
Here's the invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/864483943571189/
Hope you can make it!
Marina
Today Counter Culture Labs failed to pick up our new biosafety cabinet.
We need someone or some device that can move a large 680 pound 6 foot wide,
top heavy cabinet from its stand at about waist height, down to a couple of
ground-level dollies so we can wheel it through a normal-sized doorway.
Can you help?
This is in redwood city. If we can get it onto dollies, we can move it from
there.
I have no experience with this sort of thing. We showed up with five people
and even with one of the employees at the location helping we didn't feel
comfortable even trying it, as it could easily result in serious injury.
We put down half of the $500 price as a deposit, unscrewed the removable
components and took them with us. We'd like to try to pick it up within the
next week.
It is the NU-425-600 model from this page:
http://www.nuaire.com/products/labgard-es-energy-saver-nu-425-class-ii-type…
cabinet.html
Dimension without base stand: 77 ⅝ x 32 ⅞ x 63 inches
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marc/juul
510 717 4275
hey sudoroom,
i met this guy today at noisebridge (i know, i said i don't go there
anymore) and he is doing some amazing stuff!!! We all have so much to
learn from him, and be inspired by him.
here is a recent post from his website, watch the video:
http://onyx-ashanti.com/2014/07/11/the-nomadic-diary-of-onyx-ashanti-episod…
basically he has been making amazing WEARABLE technology for purposes of
music and other forms of electronic expression, in the most organic way i
have ever seen technology used.
He is using electronics, embedded systems (wireless arduinos with
accelerometers, force sensors, buttons, lights etc) and hardware (servo
motors and haptic feedback vibes) in concert with extremely ergonomic
(again organic) structures made with 3d printing, to make human interface
devices for making music (in puredata). He uses a bunch of different
filament types (even conductive filament) and a heavily customized very
portable 3d printer.
my only disappointment is that none of his circuits or 3d models are on
github, although he says that the stuff he is working on now will be
released freely as soon as he is satisfied with it. I hope that is soon.
in the meantime, here's his github, which has a couple of puredata
repositories (puredata is the FOSS version of MaxMSP)
https://github.com/onyxashanti
even without code or files from his designs, i was very inspired by his
work and his energy and his attitude. as for the circuits and the
robotics code, it's nothing I couldn't make from scratch quickly. but the
ideas that he had for this stuff are ideas that i never had, even though
they seem "obvious" after the fact. But so few of us are lucky enough to
look at technology from a purely interactive perspective like he seems to.
he said he would gladly come to sudoroom "any time" and I have his contact
to let him know.
Is there any reason I shouldn't tell him to come to sudoroom on saturday
at around 5 or 6 pm? is anyone interested in seeing the stuff he does
with music, puredata patches, 3d printing, wearable embedded wireless
electronics, robotics (the expressive tentacle thing) etc?
-jake
so all the manuals i have for the robot are SCANS of some sort of papyrus,
upon which the instructions were once inscribed.
this means they are not searchable. It seems at first that they can be
searched, and copy and paste, but that is only the safety warning pages
inserted by the people who scanned the pages into the PDF. None of the
content is searchable!
if you know how to do OCR (optical character recognition) on a PDF and
make it so that one can still search the PDF without altering its readable
appearance, please do so to some of the manuals here:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot
highest priority would be the programming manual:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf
and the robot arm manual:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf
this would be an example of a PDF that has the scanned parts searchable:
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoma…
-jake
Want to have our own networked radiation monitoring station? The Global
Radiation Monitoring Network is looking to add nodes to their network
<http://www.uradmonitor.com/join-the-network/>.
They only have two dozen or so nodes around the world so far, and none in
California. "In this early phase of the project, there is only a minimal,
non-profit cost, to cover the hardware components used and the shipping."
The nodes are weatherproofed, and only need 5V power and an ethernet cable.
Is this something that could potentially be piggy-backed on to the sudo
mesh nodes as well? One of their node models has a barometric pressure
sensor as well. Not sure to what extent this is an open source project, but
we could find out.
They were just featured as one of the semifinalists for the Hackaday prize
<http://hackaday.com/2014/09/11/global-radiation-monitoring-network-update/>,
so I expect they'll be getting an influx of new node requests...
Patrik
Hi Sudo'ers
As many of you know I'm trying to help spread biohacking across CA, the US
and internationally (I've been pushing hacker spaces at XPRIZE too as a way
to democratize innovation) and we need your help!
I'm currently helping a group of LA biohackers (including Cory Tobin and
other LAB members) to try to raise money for a large non-profit community
biotech lab in LA through LA2050. We're close, as in really close, we're in
the number 2 spot and we were in the number 1 spot but just recently lost
the no 1 spot.The rest of the teams are arts collectives (which we also
love) but we're the only science and tech entry and we'd love to bring more
science down to LA.
If the voting is successful they'll be a lab down in LA that we can all
collaborate with and visit with, the team and I would REALLY appreciate the
votes. If you have time to vote, it's really quick and it would help us a
lot:
http://myla2050create.maker.good.is/projects/LALabLaunch
Hopefully within a few months we'll be able to have a new LA community
biohacker night and invite you all to attend!
All the best,
Ryan
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Ryan Bethencourt
Tel: (415) 825 2705
Conf. Dial in number: 585-632-6294 PIN: 48429
ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com
*@ryanbethencourt*
