This page is for checking if sudo room wants your old/used gear. If you want to know what sudo room needs, check out our wishlist or ask info@sudoroom.org
Tools
All tools are welcome! From scissors and screwdrivers to oscilloscopes and laser cutters!
Kitchen equipment
Want:
- Pressure cookers
- Utensils
- Compact electrical hotplates
- Really nice knives
- Really nice pots or pans
Do not want:
- Anything else electrical
Computers and parts
Desktops
Want:
- Dual core systems or newer
- Small or low power computers like mini-itx, beagle bone or raspberry pi
Ask if you're donating more than a couple of tower computers or similar. We have limited space.
Do not want:
- Any standard desktops / towers that are old enough to not have dual core
- Any non-intel-based MACs, but ask of it's old enough to have historical value
Laptops
If it's working and it's a pentium 3 or better, then yes we want it! Even if the battery is dead. If the screen is broken but everything else works then we still want it.
If it's older than pentium 3 or doesn't work then we're not interested.
Cables
Want:
- Micro USB
- HDMI
- Thunderbolt
- Displayport
- Display adapters
- Pretty much any analog audio cables except RCA to RCA
- Very long cables of most standard types
- Small amounts of standard cables
- Shielded cables like PS/2
Ask before bringing large amounts of cables.
Do not want:
- Desktop computer power cables
- Older generation computer cables
- Coaxial
Harddrives
Want:
- Anything with a SATA interface
- Anything with at least 100 GB and a USB interface
We could also use an old 50-pin SCSI drive for our tiny computer history museum.
Do not want:
- PATA (IDE)
- SCSI
- Firewire
Monitors and TVs
Want:
- 100% working and unscratched LCD, TFT, OLED or LED monitors
Please ask before bringing in more than a few
Do not want:
- CRT monitors or TVs
- Plasma monitors or TVs
- Broken or scratched monitors
Computer speakers
We don't really want more of these unless they are of particularly high quality. We have too many mediocre computer speakers.
Printers and ink
Want:
- Plotters or similar very large format printers
- Ink for Xerox Phaser 7400
- Wax printer
- Color laser printer that is better and not much larger than a Xerox Phaser 7400
Do not want:
- Any other kind of printer
- Especially not inkjet
- Photocopiers
Yes, we know they have nice parts in them. Please bring us the parts, not the printers. Don't even bring them in temporarily to strip the parts.
Electronics parts
Want:
- Basic components like resistors, capacitors, buttons, etc
- Micro-controllers
- Development boards
- Blank PCB
Do not want:
- Random circuit boards to strip for parts unless they contain very interesting parts
Cloth, sewing and clothing
Want:
- Broken industrial or really nice sewing machines
- Working sewing machines
- Fitting mannequin
- Bolts or large pieces of fabric
- Thread
- Buttons, zippers, etc
- Pins
- Needles
- Chalk
- Measuring tape
- etc.
Do not want:
- Small pieces of fabric
- Items of clothing
Materials
Want:
- Polycarbonate and similar
- Printing paper of all sizes
- Nice pieces of wood, especially two by four
- Metal sheets, rods, angle iron, etc
- 3D printing filament
Do not want:
- Small scraps of anything
- MDF, fiberboard or similar
- Glass panes
Audio equipment
Any pro audio equipment is nice and useful, especially stuff that would be useful for conference type events, but please ask before bringing in large items.
Musical instruments
We love musical instruments, but if it's bigger than a conga drum, please ask before bringing it in :)