20 Jan
2014
20 Jan
'14
8:51 p.m.
Do you want to be lavished with stress, anguish and minimal praise for the
the thankless task of maintaining the sudo door "sudoor"? Well now is your
chance.
Imagine a your mirth at suddenly being responsible for a critical but
poorly working access mechanism!
Why isn't the door electric door opening working reliably? I don't know,
but I can tell you how its supposed to work, which parts are the most
reliable, and the full history. Then you can fix it.
Requirements: None except patience, and I will teach you whatever relevant
skills are necessary to make as poorly a working door as already exists.
Contact me,
notconfusing
20 Jan
20 Jan
9:27 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
I know this was tongue and cheek, but the object is (or should be) to
have a number of people learn and volunteer to help, and not have to
depend on any one person. I'd be happy to learn/help all I need to fix
the door when it's broken - I believe I am qualified, and I enjoy slave
labor and menial work.
On 01/20/2014 12:51 PM, Max Klein wrote:
10:50 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
I think that replacing the doorPi with a laptop will solve a lot of the
issues. I think our best debugging was pointing to a known usb power issue
with raspis.
I have a laptop I can donate to this cause if anyone else thinks this makes
sense as a solution.
Thanks,
Andrew
On Jan 20, 2014 1:27 PM, "Sam Tepper" <sam.tepper(a)gmail.com> wrote:
11:02 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
Not knowing anything about the specific application, I'll risk asking a
naive question - any reason not to just get a powered USB hub? Though I'd
caution against plugging multiple things into it; a keyboard and a hard
drive together had it acting kindof strange for me.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:
11:21 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
How'bout go to Al Lasher's Electronics in Berkeley and see what they
have to offer? They have a whole department for DIY security systems.
The most basic requirement is a) entry keypad with ability to have
personal entry codes for a sufficient number of persons, b) door
intercom with means of buzzing people in from upstairs, and c)
additional input for a relay contact closure to buzz people in.
Then optionally, d) means of connecting to (c) via telephone dial-up or
secure online connection and entering a code, thereby enabling someone
at home to buzz people in remotely, e.g. Alice wants in, calls Bob who's
at home or on the road, and Bob calls the system or connects to a screen
with a remote code entry to let Alice in.
Then see what hardware Lasher's recommends, and the cost. (It's almost
certainly going to be less than the unpaid cost of labor that's gone
into this so far.) It's likely they'll have solutions for (a), (b), and
(c), but may not have something for (d). In which case you end up with
a reliable basic system and a project to build a solution for (d) from
scratch. But at least the basics will be working, so the development
project will have less stress and more freedom to experiment.
-G
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On 14-01-20-Mon 3:02 PM, Dan Krol wrote:
11:28 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
until we nail down the cause, if theres a usb power issue might a dumb
workaround be a scheduled power cycle every N hours? i.e., connect the pi
to an outlet timer..if we/anyone haz one of those to donate?
On Monday, January 20, 2014, Dan Krol <orblivion(a)gmail.com> wrote:
11:32 p.m.
New subject: Offer: lots of stress and little reward - seeking new maintainer for sudoor
Lori seemed open in the past for paying for a low-cost (ie, hacked together
& installed by us) intercom system that worked for us & others on the
second floor.
As good excuse as any to hit up Al's..
On Monday, January 20, 2014, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
21 Jan
21 Jan
8:56 p.m.
New subject: Ordering Sudouino Prototype boards next week!
Hi Folks,
The Sudouino is a microcontroller board designed with the intermediate to ambitious
beginner level hardware hacker in mind, designed to be "permanently" installed
in your project to run all the bells and whistles. Connections are intended to be
hard-wired with a soldering iron, saving space and cost by eliminating all but the most
essential components from the basic model. Sudouino is designed in Oakland and production
model PCBs will be sourced as locally as possible, with the objective of raising funds to
build an in-house capability for PCB milling, after which all revenue exceeding basic
operating costs will go directly into the sudo room general fund.
I have gotten a few suggestions along the way for additions to the PCB I sent out about a
month ago, which is the same as the one attached today since I haven't re-worked
anything yet. I would like to add the option for screw terminals and other hardware into
the board layout if possible - if you have something you want to attach, please send me
information including dimensions. Relay socket? Sensor connector? Different mounting
holes? I will try to space everything to accommodate a few ways of connecting hardware
based on what our members request. There was one suggestion to use a different chip that
can act as a USB peripheral device, which I would like to implement in the next Sudouino
in what could be an unlimited series of sudo boards. Also collecting input for that
though I'm really hoping Jake will take the lead on the next one :) and there will be
room for anyone to take the lead on subsequent devices all under the sudo room umbrella.
No idea when in the next few days I'll get around to putting in the order, so please
give detailed feedback ASAP if you have any.
Cheers,
Hol
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