That's a pretty sweet idear! Yay field trips! Let's wait until after that desert thing...it's a little hairy around there now for a tour. Boxshop does have a really nice TIG welder (with a leaky hose right now, but its no biggie). I'm no pro at aluminum on tig, but I can do stainless, carbon steel, and I recently just did a bunch of Si-Bronze mixed metal welds to weld to 3D printed medal(!), so I can give you some help for sure.<div>
<br></div><div>Sean<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:51 AM, rachel lyra hospodar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachelyra@gmail.com" target="_blank">rachelyra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Hi sean!!! Haven't seen you around in forever. I'd love to brush up my tig welding skillz... I hate having to take safety classes on each individual tool at techshop. I'm not checked out on tig there, and the shop I use right now in east bay is mig only. Do you work anyplace with a tig welder you could let me play around on for an hour or three? I'll happily help you sew a pocket in return. I promise not to burn the place down - I haven't tig welded since *the year 2000* but I've taught welding safety enough times that you can trust me.</p>
<p>Maybe noisebridge can take a field trip to the boxshop! I've still never been there and would love to see it, I bet lots of other people would too.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 16, 2012 7:40 PM, "Sean Cusack" <<a href="mailto:sean.p.cusack@gmail.com" target="_blank">sean.p.cusack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I agree that its cool. Its some neato bent aluminum. Swing by boxshop or DSC or the crucible or techshop, and they'll have the stuff that you can use to make this (plus probably some other places that I'm not even thinking about) - it actually isn't as hard as it looks! There's actually a really cool project going on now at boxshop which is a boat with a UFO top that glows with -light bulbs- like light sockets on a boat...not an easy thing!<div>
<br></div><div>Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, rachel lyra hospodar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachelyra@gmail.com" target="_blank">rachelyra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Really? It's a cool project but too heavily branded, and done as part of a publicity stunt at a day job, for me to really think of it as an epic technical hack. Cool car, for sure. Great marketing for VW. They seem to have a better grasp than the US government on what, exactly, we should be exploring.</p>
<p>I am curious about the tenor of your message - does one epic hack cancel out another one? Is a hacker less of a hacker upon beholding an epic hack in another field of interest? Is a hacker required to use comparison metrics to gauge their progress into true hackerdom? Come talk to me, then, when you can manufacture something that, without electricity, can save you from hypothermia, and also can fit into your pocket. Fuck, come talk to me when you've built a pocket.</p>
<p>Nice car though. I wonder how deep it can go.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Aug 16, 2012 3:59 PM, "maestro" <<a href="mailto:maestro415@gmail.com" target="_blank">maestro415@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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# so you think you're a hacker...<div># i'd say these guys represent...</div><div><br></div><div># <<a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/22987/volkswagen-beetle-mobile-shark-cage-cruises-the-ocean-floor.html" target="_blank">http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/22987/volkswagen-beetle-mobile-shark-cage-cruises-the-ocean-floor.html</a>></div>
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