[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Awesome meeting tonite....and found items

[dan p]

...not my coat, and sad I missed the thermostat project. I've been wanting
to take something like this on for a while. Greenhouse in the backyard and
"thermal control" that I have is very inadequate, at some point in the last
three days with the warm spell it was up to 79f (I just want it to be ~45f.)

How far out are "we" willing to move? I would normally suggest Lucky Lab as
they have a large open space and they appear to be quite tolerant of groups
(I've been known to go to a volvo group that meets 1/mo and noticed others,
like scrabble groups) but not sure about the soldering iron/let the smoke
out/electricity aspect. Ground control? Tugboat brewpub (small, but the
owner seems cool, approachable and I've never been there were she wasn't
around)

great fun, and very inspiring.

On 12/6/07, Jason Plumb <jason at noisybox.net> wrote:
>
> So I used to be pretty diligent about posting a summary of each causal
> gathering, but it ended up being too much, so I've dropped it.
>
> It occurred to me, though, that there's some great value in explaining
> to the lurkers what we've been up to, even if it's in a limited way...so
> here I ramble....
>
> First order of business, though -- I grabbed a few abandoned items from
> our table.  Anselm:  I'm almost 100% sure I have your iphone charger
> (white brick with white usb cable with ipod connector), and I strongly
> suspect with your *HEAVY* iphone habit, you'll be needing it in the next
> few days.  :)
>
> I also grabbed a Columbia fleece(?) jacket left on the back of a
> chair...roughly where Dan(?) was sitting.  If it's yours, let me know
> and I'll get it back to you...
>
> Tonight was pretty crazy and interesting and fun.  In my opinion,
> Vendetta is really starting to SUCK for our meetings -- we've simply
> outgrown it and they don't seem terribly interested in helping us (tho
> they *do* *tolerate* us, that's hardly a selling point).  Mostly, it's
> just getting too loud...and trust me, I use that expression SPARINGLY!
>
> I certainly didn't get a proper chance to meet everybody or to see what
> they were showing off, but there was TONS of gear around this time,
> including:
>
>    * Paul's USB Atmel based JTAG interface --
>      step 1 of a muhhahahhaha rad board in progress.
>    * Don gave me a box of cool Intel audio recording toys from
>      the surplus shop....for use with HAYWIRE (circuit bending
>      workshop I'm hosting in January)
>    * Dan showed off some preliminary GPS based boards and described
>      some amazing yet simple interfaces he plans to build with them
>    * Brian demoed his wireless zigbee enabled two-way thermostat
>      home efficiency hack!  Sweet LCD embedded into a home-control
>      thermostat project.
>    * Brad set up his luggable and midi controller and projected VVVV
>      visuals on the whit brick walls and answered the slaughter of
>      questions from most of us!  It was really a thing of beauty.
>    * Stan brought an Alphagrip controller and let us play with it
>      and fail to type correctly with it.
>    * ...and probably several other notable things I completely missed!
>
> All in all, there were a bunch of new and welcome faces, and a lot of
> CRAZY INTERESTING ideas being kicked about.  Aside from the space
> complaints, I'd say this was a big success and I'm quite excited to see
> where we take this in the upcoming months.
>
> As always, we're looking for people to help present and help organize or
> otherwise assist with DorkbotPDX events.  If you have something you'd
> like to show or present in a more formal manner, now is the time to
> start planning an event!  The email list, website, and irc channel are
> all choice methods for getting the process going!  We're specifically
> interested in [new] spaces for meetings, so if you know of something,
> please let us know.
>
> Thanks again to everybody for coming out and sharing a good and
> stimulating time!
>
> -jason
> http://noisybox.net
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