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

[paige saez]

BACKSPACE. period.

On Dec 6, 2007 10:36 AM, dan p <gunterhausfrau at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...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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