[Noisebridge-discuss] Hackshelves missing stuff?

[Robert Chu]

Hey Zach, I noticed that as well. I recently cleared printers that were
taking up a lot of "other good hackables space." Other then that it seems
that all of the sorted bins have gone unsorted as well.

-- 
Robert

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Zach <organic_unity at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>   Ones thing Ive noticed at NB more recently is a lot of "recycled hack
> goods" disappearing from the shelves in very large quantities.  I'm
> wondering if someone is trying to be a good semaritan by recycling them
> (?)  It would be nice to keep this stuff at NB for projects though.  Was
> helping some people 2 days ago build a robot and there were ZERO batteries
> to be found at NB (??)  That got me thinking more about the disappearing
> stuff in recent months:
>
> - Old Cell phones (we had a massive bin of these)
> - Batteries (Jake donated a massive bin of great Laptop batteries and
> there was also a crate of lead acids.  The former were later were def on
> their way out though...)
> - Ethernet cables (there was a brown crate (closed lid type) with a
> thousand of these, now all gone?)
> - PCB/motherboard scrap (had 4 bins of these at one point and it was GREAT
> for part pulling.  Someone 'recycled' these a while ago I think..)
>
> Anyway, maybe at a future meeting we could talk about hack stuff that is
> good for the space versus trash to get rid of.  Or I could volunteer to
> help sort if someone wants to work on this.  It is one of the most useful
> things about the space I think to have this stuff around for building
> awesome projects.  I'll give one example:  During a Linux class last week
> someone needed a 12v to 5v stepdown for the new Rasberry Pi.  He was going
> to go spend $$ at the store for something in a few days and really didn't
> know what was needed.  So we..
> -used the whiteboard to draw out and explain DC DC v. LDO voltage circuits
> and
> -pulled a ancient Linksys router from the "router and networking" scrap
> bin...the old mother board had an entire DC-DC converter circuit for 12v to
> 5v, 12v to 3.3v, and another one...all high efficiendy and rated >1.9A
> output! (we checked the datasheet online)...all for free and reusing
> e-waste AND educating!
>
> Just one example of why NB and motherboard scrap is awesome :)
>
> Zach
>
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