[Noisebridge-discuss] possible electronic equipment donation from the Exploratorium

[Andy Isaacson]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:36:33AM -0700, Rachel McConnell wrote:
> I've been contacted by an Exploratorium person who says,
> 
> ---
> We're cleaning out a lot of our storage and the electronics lab here at
> the Explo, and we've got a lot of gear that is either very esoteric, not
> germane, in need of minor repair, or just been updated. Most of it is
> serviceable, immediately useable, or has still good components.  I think
> some of it might be useful or hackable at Noisebridge.
> 
> Types of gear include bench power supplies, variacs, oscilloscopes,
> frequency counters, vintage multimeters, function generators, frequency
> vector meters, etc.  A lot of it was donated by HP/Agilent. We'll be
> doing a walkthru of the components this week, and will have a full list
> after that.
> 
> If Noisebridge is interested, we can even deliver. No promises about
> exactly what gets surplussed, but that's probably a pretty good idea of
> what.  If someone wanted to come up here beforehand and vet what goes
> before we deliver, that would be fine too.
> ---
> 
> If it was a few things I'd just have said, yes, bring it over, thanks!
> But it seems like a lot so I figured I'd run it by the list.  I'm
> willing to go do the sorting & choosing but I'll need some assistance
> from someone with a better sense of what would be Useful to us.

I'm up for this.  Please CC me on the mail so I can get a better idea of
what's on offer.

-andy