[Noisebridge-discuss] arcade emulator shelf and mediabridge idea

[Alex Handy]

The MAME cabinet is not abandoned, but someone disassembled it and did most un-excellent things to it without letting anyone else know. It's basically a dead box in need of attention now.

The NES and TV work, and would be a perfect spot for setting up the VCRs.



On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:06 PM, miloh wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Patrick Keys <citizenkeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> A big part of what I was hoping to setup was a good import/export deck,
> with VCR's, digitizer equipment, and the like.
> 
> You might have some equipment at home, but noisebridge gives people a
> place to work together on stuff.
> 
> 
> Patrick and all,
> 
> Let me start by saying the arcade is not abandoned.  Long live the arcade!
> 
> However, I have long been thinking about projects along these lines: a mediagroup at Noisebridge:
> 
> Noisebridge already has some of the kind of videocentric equipment you listed, but could very well use a copy stand, light boxes, and light rings for still photography of small projects.  We could use a group of people who meet regularly enough to know where equipment is stored, how to use the tools, and how to train others.  A mediagroup at Noisebridge could maintain and improve a hardware library for media capture and editing work while consolidating and testing the various designs solutions for more esoteric hardware or software like copy stands, freestreaming solutions, and reversing the (currently) windows only microscope cam we have.
> 
> In addition to offering a place for media capture and conversion, we should be contributing to open source projects (Lumiera really needs it, see http://lumiera.org/ ), and promoting creative commons licensing or copyleft philosophy for work completed.  
> See http://creativecommons.org , http://archive.org , and http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/
> 
> In short, Noisebridge can certainly be a place where tools are available to convert/upgrade physical media into more portable, replicable, and spreadable digital media.  
> 
> I've already donated DVcameras, a tanktop, digital audio recorders, microphones, suitcases ;), and other gear that has been used to produce and capture hundreds of hours of 5Mo'Fame video and audio from the last 14 months.  We still haven't edited that, it's a huge task to get done correctly and it needs more hands and eyes.
> 
> As for a getting a copy stand, Arlen on the Noisebridge darkroom list recently brought up the possibility of converting an enlarger for this purpose (see https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/darkroom ).  I'm really excited about the possibilities here, not just because I have boxes of journals and photographs that I'm interested in cc archiving :-)
> 
> Since the arcade is not truly abandoned, let's share the desk space there and clean up around the hack shelves in order to figure out a better storage system for the media equipment Noisebridge already has.  If we organize and label the hackshelves clearly we can get space for more member shelves as well as groups storage. 
> 
> We should work on this and plan what else we need, and how to continue with this project in the coming weeks..  I'm there on Mondays and Tuesdays to start.
> 
> 
> -ronald miloh alexander
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