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by Max Klein

Bonkers readers, I am unable to make the meeting tonight, but in doing so would like to kick off a trend to aid with any voting, be it official or straw-poll. Anthony Di Franco if in attendance may vote on my behalf, else If Jordan Cohen if in attendance may vote on my behalf. A note on format: By do-ocracy, I have created a format for declaring voting delegates. It occurs on your Wiki user page, as an ordered list. To prevent frivolity, you must make alliterating triplets describing each delegate. For example see: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/User:Maximilianklein#Delegates

11 years, 1 month

DIY cellphones

by J Clark

Sudoers, Following a related conversation earlier, here's info on a DIY cellphone: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 https://github.com/damellis/cellphone I'd love to follow any development that happens around here. Not a coder, but happy to test! j. P.S. from the "you knew it was coming" dept: How Hard Is It to 'De-Anonymize' Cellphone Data? http://j.mp/14oUhaC (Science Daily) "The proliferation of sensor-studded cellphones could lead to a wealth of data with socially useful applications -- in urban planning, epidemiology, operations research and emergency preparedness, among other things. Of course, before being released to researchers, the data would have to be stripped of identifying information. But how hard could it be to protect the identity of one unnamed cellphone user in a data set of hundreds of thousands or even millions? According to a paper appearing this week in Scientific Reports, harder than you might think."

11 years, 1 month

‘Hakitzu’ Teaches Kids to Code With Robot Warriors

by Ray Lai

Teaching. Coding. Robots in Arenas. Hell yeah! I've always been a proponent of utilizing games to teach. I haven't checked out the game, it sounds like it's on the right track. Ideas on how me might be able to do the same here at Sudo Room? http://mashable.com/2013/03/27/hakitzu/?utm_source=iphoneapp&utm_medium=rss… Raymond Lai Ice Cream Man Atomic Ice Cream Facebook.com/MotoAtomico

11 years, 1 month

Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] Microcontroller Hacking begins in 48 hours!

by hol＠gaskill.com

Hi Steve, I put that project up on the etherpad. Last night we did 2-axis control of a webcam using hobby servos controlled by an arduino with pointing instructions sent via serial and we have a few industrial servos used for HVAC that I would like to experiment with at some point for dish pointing. They are there next to the dishes if you want to check them out and pull the datasheets, run on 24V ac or dc with an odd way of sending the signal. Personally I am trying (and failing somewhat) to focus on CNC and brewing/process control so it might be a while before I can help with a detailed project, but I would like to figure out how to drive those servos. What kind of pointing accuracy do you need? My guess is that these will not cut it, but that doesn't mean we can't put something together. Still have not had a second rocket meetup either now that I think of it... Cheers, Hol Mar 27, 2013 03:07:49 PM, steveberl(a)gmail.com wrote: I notice on the etherpad that someone is interested in a 2 axis control for a radio dish. I'm interested in that also. In particular I want to mount a house satellite TV dish sized antenna on a 2 axis mount for radio astronomy use. It requires smooth and precise, but slow movement. >Who is it that is interested in this project? Can you get in contact with me? >-steve > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM, hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > >Howdy folks, > > We are two days away from the beginning of the second microcontroller project hacking night at sudo room. As someone suggested, I created a facebookpage for the event. Please invite people you think might be interested! I previously ordered 10 ATMega328p chips and crystals, and will have them available at cost ($5) for those just starting out who want a basic controller. > > Event Link: > https://www.facebook.com/events/502675869769339/ > > Also, there is an etherpad to jot down projects you intend to work on in case anyone out there is interested in collaborating: > https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics > This will be an ongoing document, and is intended to provide a subsystem-level view of project elements in order to encourage people to join together to work on individual elements or principles where interests overlap in a way that permits a limited scope of collaboration, without having to commit to recurring work on an entire project. > > We had some interesting projects last time and I expect even more this time, hopefully with a few people from the last event returning to show what they've done with their projects since then. Personally I will try to go back and forth between 50% working on 2-3 projects, 30% getting newbies started on their controller builds, and 20% snacking/shooting the shit. Looking forward to seeing y'all! > > Cheers, > Hol > _______________________________________________ > sudo-announce mailing list > sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-announce > > > >-- >-steve

11 years, 1 month

sudo room bank account info

by Matthew Senate

attached is a statement as of today (after a deposit this morning) Total funds: 2,286.35 // Matt

11 years, 1 month

Off grid energy panels that we don't see in the cool Silicon Valley tech talks

by Romy Ilano

I'm seeing very smart conversations about off grid alternative energy infrastructure and systems here Is there a way to easily show me in a chart what the off grid alternatives are that are not discussed in the cool Silicon Valley greentech scene? And I hope nobody bashes greentech too much... It's become such a dirty word in the investment community because its returns are not quick and easy like mobile social networks There are a lot of great biofuels panels I worked on where the idea of off grid wasn't presented because its not a viable business model. I think the lesbian biofuels reclaimed cooking oil gas station in Berkeley I met a fee years ago was neat but it was hard to make people see it as relevant in a deal flow So I feel my education is incomplete as are other Americans --- Romy Ilano Founder of Snowyla http://www.snowyla.com romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 1 month

Please help pay dues / our rent (we're going to be short), plus seeking materials for a (physical) drop box.

by Tommy York

As Marina mentioned in her email, we're *short rent* and need to *collect dues* from everyone to cover it. I understand that meeting attendance hasn't been as high as active membership in general, but if you've missed out on paying dues in the last month, can do so, and can make it tonight, come! One thing I thought might make a significant different in collecting rent and dues is having a (physical) drop box installed on the wall in Sudoroom, so that people could safely drop off checks at any time of the day. I suppose this would be much like the mailbox, but mayhaps with keys distributed to the ~5 checksigners, so that checks could even be dropped off in this physical box after receiving them in the mail. I'm broke until I get my first paycheck from my new work in ~2.5 weeks, and don't really have a lot of things, so I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about a potential lockable dropbox to install on the wall / somewhere at Sudoroom. If all else fails, I'll check out urban ore before the meeting. tl;dr: pay rent. - tommy ----------------- Thomas Riley York (杨德民) 510.926.0510 http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyyork

11 years, 1 month

Meeting Tonight Promptly at 7PM + Pay Your Dues!

by Marina Kukso

hi everyone, we will be starting promptly at 7PM tonight. during this meeting we hope to finalize an amendment to the articles of association (please see below). also, this is the *final week of the month and we are still short for april rent*. please bring your checkbooks, cash, etc. this evening or pay via wepay on sudoroom.org. If you have items for the agenda, the blank pad is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom* *(can someone please add the meeting agenda template?) thanks, marina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:39 AM Subject: [sudo-discuss] UPDATE/REMINDER: Amending Articles of Association on 3/27! To: sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org, sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> We were supposed to finally vote to update the Articles of Association on 3/20, but the wiki went down on 3/18 and stayed down until this past weekend! We didn't feel comfortable voting without the diff in front of us, and knowing that the full week of "online-consentability" was not fulfilled. But now the wiki is back up - thanks to all the people who worked hard to fix it! This message serves as your reminder. You have an extra few days to review the diff online, to make up for lost time: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Articles_of_Association%2FCo… Hope to see you at the 3/27 meeting and finally make this happen! _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

11 years, 1 month

Need help reshaping some data with pandas (and/or numpy)...

by Naomi Most

Hello nice persons, Would any of you python mathematical types be willing to help me solve a problem using pandas (and/or numpy)? The math itself isn't hard; the difficulty revolves around my unfamiliarity with the tools, and good god is this ever a huge load of learning I'm having to do just to reshape some data. --Naomi -- Naomi Theora Most naomi(a)nthmost.com +1-415-728-7490 skype: nthmost http://twitter.com/nthmost

11 years, 1 month

TODAY, 7pm at Noisebridge

by Cyrus Farivar

The technology movement in Kosovo with @gentthaci http://on.fb.me/11AUuqI -C -- Cyrus Farivar "suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var" Journalist and radio producer | cyrusfarivar.com (http://cyrusfarivar.com) Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere" | internetofelsewhere.com (http://internetofelsewhere.com) US: +1 510 394 5485 (m) | Twitter/Skype: cfarivar "Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet." cfarivar(a)cfarivar.org (mailto:cfarivar@cfarivar.org)

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