User talk:Msemtd

Project Plans: -

• achievement awards for hackers
  • gentle path for acquiring skills
  • "You have unlocked a new achievement"
  • badges, certificates, icons!
    • laser induction
    • woodworking tools induction
    • sewing/knitting machine
    • welding and metalwork
    • circuit design and etch-tank

• skateboard wheel lathe
  • Totally ghetto - easily done: silverfishlongboarding forum post

• • http://opensourcemachine.org/
  • http://opensourcemachine.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/how_to_build_a_multimachine1.pdf
  • http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-Lathe-from-other-peoples-rubbish/
• shoe repair - glues, heavy duty sewing, sugru, bicycle tyres
• put wheels on things!
• Inappropriate Technology
• bike trailer
• car trailer
  • like the ones my dad made
  • steel angle from bed frames
  • indespension units for wheels
    • http://www.indespension.co.uk/b2c/app/I00660?ZSUBCO=033&Z1MACO=181&PGMN35=005&slnk=1
    • I think these original Mini ones are the thing: http://www.indespension.co.uk/b2c/app/I00080?PNUM35=SH012&slnk=1
• submarine
• ERTs
  • http://www.gai-tronics.org.uk/products/ert.htm
  • stick a PC at the base of each and tap into its serial comms
  • build a SIP phone from one end of the HackSpace to the other with the two phones perhaps mounted outside the front and back doors!

Fabrication - object printing

• T-shirt printing
  • Culture references
  • "Outside Context Problem"
  • "Special Circumstances"
  • "I can't believe it's not better"
• Laser cutting
• CNC machine
  • MyDIYCNC
  • Martin's CNC machine
• 3d Printing with RepReap
• just laser printing
• circuit board etching

First use of laser cutter: -

• Veralite board 3 dingdongs of the power dial and speed of? melty
  • http://www.edplastics.co.uk/Veralite%20PETG.htm
  • http://www.edplastics.co.uk/Verlite%20-%20Lasercutting.pdf

IRC Bots

http://www.jibble.org/pircbot.php

Various AI

Logging and statting

Who's in web indicator

Hackspace is ON/OFF web indicator

TODO

• Weigh components!
• circular base – two layer, jigsaw cut
• pizza box stand
• cardboard speaker box and speaker breakout for switch, led, batteries
• Possible new base, direct motor wheel connections with Pololu hubs and laser cut wheels, new alu motor brackets
• Motors: test drive commands with PWM enable line
• wire up keyswitch – wires to all terminals and test MICRO LED
• volume control from command line sudo /etc/acpi/voldownbtn.sh ??
• shutdown eeePC from command line "sudo shutdown now"
• IP publish with wget