Doh! It always helps to INCLUDE THE ATTACHMENT<br><br><br>Subject: Signal To Noise 2011-01-07 #1<br><br> .-'`-. Signal To Noise V11.01(Beta)-rc7<br> z !/|<br> z !\| the international journal<br> `-'`- of the noisebridge hackerspace<br>
<br>In this issue:<br>> NOISEBRIDGE SAVED FROM REPO BOTS<br>> THEY CAME FOR OUR TEA ROOM<br>> HEART SPARKS AND TRON GUYS<br>> SHOW US YOUR NEURALS<br>> HUMAN OF NOISEBRIDGE OF FORTNIGHT:<br>> Meredith Scheff-King is ALL SCARF, ALL THE TIME<br>
<br>sub/unsub: <a href="http://nburl.net/nbannounce">http://nburl.net/nbannounce</a><br>send your news: just hit "reply"<br><br>>>> NEWS: NB NO LONGER DIVIDING BY ZERO<br><br>This February, Noisebridge will not disappear in a white hole of<br>
debt, anguish and sheet rock dust. You all stepped up, and in a few<br>weeks we went from having little cartoon flies buzzing out of the<br>cartoon wallet to blowing past our canonical hackerspace float of<br>three months costs in advance ($15K). In December, we took $4,360 in<br>
dues, and $5,675.60 in extra donations. Compare that to say, September,<br>when we only recorded $365 in extra donations.<br><br>Noisebridge has historically paid its bills with about 2/3rds from<br>our relatively stable membership dues, and the rest from casual<br>
donations. We're mostly fixed the overdue dues problem thanks to<br>Kelly's excellent financial forensics, but Noisebridge is still prone<br>to economic boom-bust on the rand()*(donations) front.<br><br>A lot of you drop a few bucks in the box when you come by, and thank<br>
you, you're awesome. But just as you don't have to a member of<br>Noisebridge to use the space for whatever, you don't have to be a<br>full member to make a pre-programmed regular donation. Turn those few<br>bucks into a monthly electronic payment of just $10 or $20, and<br>
you'll always have a Gentlemen And Ladies Space Within Which To Hack.<br>Plus less of this irregular NPR-style pledge-drive spazzing. Go on!<br>Do it! IT'S JUST MONEY. YOU'D ONLY WASTE IT ON OIL:<br><a href="http://nburl.net/autopay">http://nburl.net/autopay</a><br>
<br>Mfb broke into our PayPal account and wrote a script at it:<br><a href="http://cha-ching.noisebridge.net/">http://cha-ching.noisebridge.net/</a><br><br>$10 dude! You pay more than that in dropbox or Ritual or watercress or something:<br>
<a href="http://nburl.net/tendollars">http://nburl.net/tendollars</a><br><br>Thanks uptown guys, living on your uptown pies:<br><a href="http://uptownalmanac.com/2011/01/update-noisebridge-raises-hella-cash-staying-open">http://uptownalmanac.com/2011/01/update-noisebridge-raises-hella-cash-staying-open</a><br>
<br>>>> HACKING<br><br>ULTRASTRUCTURE<br><br> Noisebridge's Scanning Electron Microscope is getting better<br> every day: Mike and Andy got it working up to 20,000x.<br> Schematics and pics uploaded to:<br>
<a href="http://nburl.net/microscope">http://nburl.net/microscope</a><br><br> THE TEA ROOM is no more! Zed and Shannon went on a<br> stairs-constructing rampage and constructed a space you can<br>
walk up to, on your legs. It still works for tea drinking.<br><br> OMG Nick bought a VENDING MACHINE. The compressor is<br> putting the "noise" back into Noisebridge, but we are<br> working on that. Service manual, baud rates at:<br>
<a href="http://nburl.net/vend">http://nburl.net/vend</a><br><br> That BUILD-OUT MESS by the touch-panel was magicked away<br> into the Even Darker Room (aka the Scott Memorial Storage<br> Room). The ADA BATHROOM got grab-bars c/o Miloh.<br>
<a href="http://nburl.net/map">http://nburl.net/map</a><br><br>ELLIPTICALLY ORBITING PROJECTS<br><br> Eric and Chung-Hay of Sensebridge launched their HEART SPARK<br> heatbeat-sensitive necklace to universal Internets acclaim!<br>
Eric's in Toronto now, hanging out with our <a href="http://hacklab.to">hacklab.to</a><br> sisters, but C-H is still about, and working on new<br> projects, including a heartbeat scarf. Scarfs are cool.<br>
<a href="http://sensebridge.net/projects/heart-spark/">http://sensebridge.net/projects/heart-spark/</a><br> <a href="http://bunnymeetsbean.blogspot.com/">http://bunnymeetsbean.blogspot.com/</a><br><br> MC Hawking, the wheelchair robot, now has an embedded PC for<br>
a brain, and is possibly conspiring with our IRC noisebot.<br> He is unmetaphorically deadly so do not stand too close.<br> Jake "No, the One With Dreadlocks" is the keeper.<br> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noise-Bot">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noise-Bot</a><br>
<br> Sean made a Tron suit out of 190 proper LEDs and not boring<br> EL wire like you thought. He's like Tron Guy : Legacy!<br> <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-lit-Tron-v20-suit/">http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-lit-Tron-v20-suit/</a><br>
(From the Cyborg list: <a href="http://nburl.net/cyborg-l">http://nburl.net/cyborg-l</a> )<br><br> <<< Want to let us know what you do and what you want from Noisebridge?<br> <<< Take the 5 minute Noisepoll now! <a href="http://j.mp/noisepoll">http://j.mp/noisepoll</a><br>
<br>>>> INCOMING<br><br>All the usual suspects at <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events</a> plus:<br><br>> Show and Tell!<br>Every Tuesday, 7.30PM<br>
<br>We're all like blah-blah-blah-I-have-a-great-idea-for-an-electrocution-hat -<br>but sometimes its hard to motivate oneself to take that cool idea<br>and turn it into a real thing. Show and Tell is our new event, where you<br>
show what you're working on, no matter how early and hackish. <br>The only rule is that you've got to demo something *real*.<br>Okay, maybe there are other rules. Just don't turn it into "Might Club":<br>
<a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Show_and_Tell">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Show_and_Tell</a><br><br>> Members Annual Meeting, Board Elections<br>Tuesday, January 18, 2011<br><br>Due to a fencepost error in our bylaws interpreter, the 2010 Annual members<br>
meeting will take place on January 18, 2011. We'll vote on the new board using<br>the most unfathomably fair proportional voting system we can muster (probably<br>condorcet), then unceremoniously strip them of all power in a bloodless coup.<br>
Members in good standing can vote as hard as they like, but it still won't do<br>anything. Frob the vote:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error</a><br>
<br>> Neural Net Workshop!<br>Wednesday, January 26, 2011<br><br>Mike Schachter says: the Machine Learning group at Noisebridge wants<br>to teach you! We're holding a workshop on constructing and using<br>neural networks, to raise Neural Network Awareness (NNA) and money<br>
for Noisebridge. Bring laptops and small bills:<br><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Neural_Network_Workshop">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Neural_Network_Workshop</a><br><br>> Noisebridge Book Club!<br><br>
Miah implies without explicitly stating: "I'm starting a NB book club<br>on Goodreads. We can be virtual or have actual meetings":<br><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/41745.Noisebridge_Book_Club">http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/41745.Noisebridge_Book_Club</a><br>
<br>>>> HUMAN OF NOISEBRIDGE OF THE FORTNIGHT<br><br>MEREDITH SCHEFF-KING won the Awesome Foundation's monthly $1000 award<br>for her proposal to make 30 scarves in January. Signal to Noise<br>caught her attacking her third scarf in the space, and plagued her<br>
with dumb questions:<br><br>> So is this three scarfs of the day or one you're making right now?<br><br>It's one; the scarf of today is reconfigurable with one or two or three<br>free-floating sections.<br><br>
> Are you planning out the whole month beforehand, or are you taking<br> it one scarf at a time?<br><br>Well, I went into it with more than thirty scarf ideas, but<br>ultimately I'm making them one at a time. I don't want to plan too<br>
far ahead. I work better spontaneously.<br><br>> How much your time are you setting aside for this?<br><br>All of it. I'm not doing much else but making scarves this month. At some<br>point I'm going to have to get groceries, I guess.<br>
<br>> Okay, I have to ask. Why scarves?<br><br>I love warm, fuzzy things. I'm sort of a chilly person. I grew up in<br>the Central Valley, where it's over 100 degrees a lot of the time, so<br>it's always cold by comparison. And I like making art that I wear.<br>
With a lot of my work, like the cartooning or the construction you<br>don't know if anyone sees the end result. It might be that noone sees<br>it.<br><br>> But if you're wearing, you get to see the reaction?<br>
<br>Yes! Also, people know what they're seeing. It's not like an artwork<br>where you have to explain to the audience what they're seeing first.<br>They already know it's a scarf. They know what it's supposed to do.<br>
<br>> I saw that you were agonising on your Twitter stream about keeping two craft<br> centers, one at your home and one at Noisebridge. Where do you think you're<br> going to spend most of your time this month?<br>
<br>Well, this is scarf three, and the first one I'm making at NB. It<br>gets lonely making stuff at home. I'm very distractable, but it's<br>easier to avoid that here, strangely. Like, I can choose not to bring<br>
my computer here, but I can't *not* have it at my apartment.<br><br>> Does it help you finish a project when you have a clear goal like this?<br><br>A bit. Mainly, though, it's the publicity that encourages you to keep<br>
going. When the Awesome Foundation mailed me I'd won the award for<br>January, I'd actually almost forgotten I'd applied. And then they<br>told me all the blogs and people that they'd already told. I was like<br>
"uh-oh, I guess I'd better actually do this". Then of course, the<br>economics of taking a month off for $1K doesn't work out, so I<br>started a Kickstarter project to get the rest of the money, and I<br>
thought "Whoa, now I really *really* have to do this."<br><br>I guess it sounds kind of bad, but I do like it when my projects do<br>the rounds on the Internet. Like the Northskirt -- that was such a<br>lot of work, and so is this. It makes me happy to know people see it.<br>
<br>> Do you know where you're going to show all the scarves yet?<br><br>Actually, no -- I haven't had a moment of time away from scarves to<br>call around galleries.<br><br>(Miloh shouts from the kitchen that Meredith's rice is boiling.<br>
Finally distracted, she runs off to grab five precious minutes of<br>non-scarf scarfing.)<br><br>Info on the scarf-of-the-month from eponymous Awesome Foundation:<br><a href="http://nburl.net/scarfaday">http://nburl.net/scarfaday</a><br>
<br>Help support Meredith:<br><a href="http://nburl.net/scarfdonate">http://nburl.net/scarfdonate</a><br><br>She blogs!<br><a href="http://ladycartoonist.com/">http://ladycartoonist.com/</a><br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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