[Noisebridge-discuss] Donation to Noisebridge from the El Rey Collection of Electronic Items

[Liz Henry]

Letter with large package just received at Noisebridge!  It is full of
electronics bits and pieces from cables to a (working) Palm Pilot and a
more recent GPS. The boxes of stuff are behind the hack shelves. Happy
scrounging and hacking!


- liz

> Greetings fellow tinkerers/hackers/makers,
> 
> My father Martin Lerner is passing along to the next dimension.
> 
> We are here in Florida cleaning up his house. And are pleased to give
> you the El Rey Collection of Electronic Items.
> 
> My Dad was a chemical/electrical engineering grad from RPI and MIT.
> He has received over 25 patents. Most of all he loved fixing and
> making things. Among the things he built on his own, bicycles from
> scratch including spoking wheels and rollers, all manner of
> woodworking -- dressers, cabinets, beautiful tables of rare imported
> woods with matching fruit bowls, and even during the 1970s a tennis
> ball pressurizer (sure, he could have bought one for $5, but where's
> the fun in that).
> 
> He loved to fix things from lawn mowers and snow blowers, to several
> cars. I remember he fashioned an automatic transmission fuild line
> out of copper tubing. We bent it to match and flared the ends.
> 
> Please use this. Anything you can't use, find a good home. I'm from
> San Francisco and have stopped in to Noisebridge a few times. I may
> take a soldering class there. Keep up the good work, and always try
> to make things a little better.
> 
> - Stuart L.






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Liz Henry
liz at bookmaniac.org
http://bookmaniac.org

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