[Noisebridge-discuss] plasmastaub / roboexotica

[David Stainton]

Rich,

If we can set off a Tesla coil in the basement then couldn't the
basement also be used to weld and plasma cut?

~david

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Rich Gibson <rich.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> I don't quite understand why you wrote this about me.   Calling me
> 'facetious and unduly negative' feels harsh.
>
> I personally have had a role in getting the Plasmastraub team to San
> Francisco.
>
> I personally encouraged them to come to San Francisco, and to Burning Man,
> during Robo Exotica in Vienna, I took GigaPan images of their creation in
> order to let other people experience some of its magic
> (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/38531/) , I gave them various ideas on how
> to get their creation here and how to fund it, and I have spent time trying
> to get funding for them, and I have committed $1,000 of my personal cash to
> them
>
> Aside from it seeming that you don't know what the word 'facetious' means, I
> do not think I have been facetious or unduly negative towards them!
>
> My only regret is that I feel ashamed that due to my father's impending
> death, and two other major family criseses, that I have not been able to do
> more for them.
>
> They are brilliant, creative, funny, and fun people who I hope will join in
> the small group of people I consider my closest friends and colleagues.
>
> I want it at our coming cocktail robotics festival which is not called
> roboexotica in spirit is roboexotica, and I hope that they are able to get a
> grant to take it to Burning Man, and/or, that they all get hooked up working
> on cool Burning man projects for this coming build season
>
> But at NoiseBridge we specifically and intentionally do not have welding and
> plasma cutting equipment because it is a wood floored and wood framed
> building.
>
> The major fail mode with warehouse spaces, which are at least passably
> similar to hackerspaces, is that unsafe welding causes a fire which brings
> in the fire marshal and than all hell breaks loose.
>
> See, for example, NIMBY's case of having to move to a new space, and they
> are still basically financially unstable because of all of the red tape and
> expense.
>
> Rich
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:18 PM, David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Welding and plasma cutting could be done downstairs in the basement.
>> I imagine Rich Gibson is being facetious and unduly negative.
>> Noisebridge needs more robots!
>>
>>
>> ~david
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Rich Gibson <rich.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If they need to weld or plasma cut
>> > that is a problem.
>> >
>> > On Saturday, February 6, 2010, das ende der nahrungskette
>> > <jg at monochrom.at> wrote:
>> >> hey folks!
>> >>
>> >> some of my students (who created the wonderful cyborg western
>> >> cocktail machine 'plasmastaub') will arrive friday feb 13... they
>> >> need a space to re-build their machine to show it at roboexotica usa
>> >> (on feb 17)...
>> >>
>> >> would it be ok for them to build it at noisebridge?
>> >>
>> >> all the best
>> >> johannes
>> >>
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