[Noisebridge-discuss] /truth/hack

[Sean Cusack]

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.

Sean

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:51 AM, rachel lyra hospodar
<rachelyra at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> R.
> On Aug 16, 2012 7:40 PM, "Sean Cusack" <sean.p.cusack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM, rachel lyra hospodar <
>> rachelyra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Nice car though. I wonder how deep it can go.
>>> On Aug 16, 2012 3:59 PM, "maestro" <maestro415 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  # so you think you're a hacker...
>>>> # i'd say these guys represent...
>>>>
>>>> # <
>>>> http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/22987/volkswagen-beetle-mobile-shark-cage-cruises-the-ocean-floor.html
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
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