New subject: help prepare bike lights tomorrow (sunday) at 1PM!

5 Sep 2022

The Sunday preparation event went great!

Cassady helped shuck batteries (outside since it was a dangerous job)
Matt donated some bike lights I think
Alex designed a battery holder from PVC tubing
Michael heroically sorted through a giant pile of LED remote controllers,
tested them and soldered battery connectors to them
Alessandra wired up EIGHT little xmas light strings to batteries
Peter and Alex built TEN battery packs and wired them up
Marco tested the addressible lights and labeled them (we have tons!)
I did stuff too.

Who is available to help with the event on Wednesday?  We're going to need a
lot of volunteers, apparently our instagram post got picked up by East Bay Bike
Party which has 16,000 members.....

-jake

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 14:39:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt;
To: sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
Cc: "Marco (glowingkitty)" &lt;marco(a)glowingkitty.com&gt;om>,
     Peter Mui &lt;pmui(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;
Subject: help prepare bike lights tomorrow (sunday) at 1PM!

we will be preparing for this event TOMORROW SUNDAY AT 1PM

who's available to come meet up and help prepare lights and materials?

we're going to look through the many LEDs we have in sudoroom, and figure out a
way to make battery packs for people using these A123 cells i have a bunch of.

do you have rolls of LED lights that you want to donate?  We are going to
solicit donations for Omni and get people to join sudoroom.

we need help making this event happen!  Both tomorrow and on Wednesday at 5

-jake

On Saturday, Jake wrote:

OK the event is set for Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM

We are going to meet tomorrow at 1pm (Sunday) in Sudoroom to prepare materials
so that Wednesday goes smoothly (in case anyone shows up)

Here is the text I sent to the East Bay Bike Party facebook group:
FREE: Light Up Your Ride for the Bike Party!

Wanna trick out your bike with LED lights for the Friday Sept. 9 ride?
Sudoroom Hackerspace (at Omni Commons) is having an LED lighting workshop in
time for the next Bike Party!

Bring your bike, your curiosity and your enthusiasm to Omni Common’s Bike
Mutation Station, and we’ll help you get your bike lighting super snazzy for
the ride: we’ve got helpers, workspace, soldering and hot glue, and surplus LED
tape and strings that we can help help you attach to your bike.

If you’re got spare LED light strings or tape, even broken ones or “scraps”, or
even just simple bike safety lights you want to fix or install, bring them to
the event to use or to share!

This is a family-friendly activity, biking families are heartily invited.

WHAT: Sudoroom’s Bike Mutation Station - Light Up Your Ride
WHEN; Weds Sep 7 2022 from 5PM-11PM
WHERE: Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland, CA 94609
HOW: Bring your bike and any parts / lights you may already have.
COST: Free, although donations to the Omni Commons gofundme are gladly
accepted: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-omni

our goal for this event is to pull lots more people into the Omni and sudoroom
to grow our community!  and we're going to have to put in a bunch of work to
make it happen but i think it will be fun

-jake

On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, Yardena Cohen wrote:

...
  This sounds great! Thank you Jake for the initiative!
I'm copying
 Omni's events list so they are aware of this plan. It would be helpful
 if the dates and times could be settled soon-ish since we are talking
 about highly shared and multiuse spaces.

 It would also be really helpful if Sudoers could use this opportunity
 to help fix up the entrance hall. Currently there is still a large
 pile of trash that nobody is sure what to do with, and a broken pew
 that could use repair to make it safe to sit on again.

 There will be a play rehearsal in the disco room on Wednesday and
 Thursday nights from 6-10pm but they should be ok, we've had busy
 events during their rehearsals before.

 On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 2:23 PM Jake via sudo-discuss
 &lt;sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org&gt; wrote:
> 
> Peter and I want to host an event at sudoroom (and partially in the entrance
> hall or ballroom/stage, since there will be a bunch of bikes and we'll need 
> space)
> where we will invite East Bay Bike Party facebook group members/instagram
> followers to come and add LED lights to their bicycles.
> 
> The next EBBP ride is Friday September 9th in 8 days.  I'm thinking this 
> event
> should be wednesday or thursday.  We will need help from whoever's 
> available!
> 
> I want to have a pre-event preparation day with volunteers from this list, 
> to
> go through the many LED supplies we have in sudoroom, and stuff we'll bring 
> from
> home, so that when the event happens, we have lights, batteries, and
> switches/LED controllers labeled and ready to wire up and hot glue in place.
> 
> That pre-event preparation can be anytime people want to meet up, including
> multiple days, so reply here if you're interested and available to meet up 
> at
> sudoroom Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday afternoon, to prepare for
> this event.  Don't worry if you aren't good with electronics, I'll show
you
> what we need to do!
> 
> Of course you'll be able to decorate your own bike too, but we want to focus 
> on
> hosting new people from the EBBP community so that they can learn about
> sudoroom and the omni, and hopefully DONATE and join us.
> 
> So it's a community-building and expanding exercise.  Who is available when?
> 
> Also if you have rolls of LED tape or LED christmas lights that you want to
> donate, now's the time!
> 
> thank you
> -jake
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