[Noisebridge-discuss] who wants to buy an arduino at the workshop tonight?

[Michael Shiloh]

On 08/20/2010 11:38 AM, travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:00:16AM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote:
>>> But, it'd be *very* nice if you had a way of putting supplies in
>>> noisebridge so we can pay and pick up. A more secure system would be a
>>> set of safes with changable pin numbers so that we tell you what we want
>>> by email, you drop it off in a safe and tell the pin, and then we pick
>>> it up -- it'd be obvious who has paid or hasn't paid -- but that's such
>>> an overkill and expensive solution for what volume you're dealing with.
>
> That's odd, my friend came up with a very similar design for a
> completely different purpose - I think it was an anonymous object
> transfer system.  His was a little more involved; the boxes would be
> moved around from time to time, and only one person could be in the
> room with them at a time, like a bank vault.  The vault room worked as
> a kind of tor-like system, decoupling who dropped off from who picked
> up ;-)
>
> Or you could just hide the objects somewhere and securely transfer the
> geocoords to him.
>
> You could accomplish your purpose much more cheaply and reasonably
> well with some sealable envelopes and writing someone's name on them
> and putting them in a common bin, if they didn't have a shelf...


What we _really_ need is an Arduino based mobile geo-reporting, 
identity-sensing, Internet connected and controllable safe, ideally with 
multiple and separate secure portals....