[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker Aquarium

[Hannah Grimm]

I'm gonna chime in with the "bad idea" crowd.  Noisebridge is a doocracy
with distributed responsibility for maintaining the space; that does not
mesh well with the caring for of actual, living things, especially once the
original person behind the project moves on to other things.  Even if lots
of people were to get involved and be willing to do simple tasks like
feeding the fish, you're as likely to end up with overfeeding killing them
as them starving to death.

Robot fish?  fine.  Living, breathing organisms with spines? not fine.  I
might be okay with someone raising animals outside of our own phylum where
people aren't going to freak out if things die, but lets avoid sending
vertebrates to their inevitable doom.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Charles Tang <cjtang1 at asu.edu> wrote:

> I meant build,
>
> The idea is that the logic here is not mutually exclusive. I'm attempting
> to bring something to the space I am relatively good at.
>
> Moreover, questions regarding maintenance aren't assuming the additional
> hacks I'm going to use.
>
> Such as:
>
> An automated top-off system/water changer
> An automated feeder
>
> The berlin method is more than enough to handle the maintenance of a small
> salt water aquarium.
>
> The industry creates an illusion that they are hard to keep and or require
> high maintenance.
>
> Hence, the reason why they are able to continue to iterate the same
> products and sell them for very high costs for those that do not truly
> understand that all you need is to remove the excess waste from the system
> for it to work.
>
> That process does not have to be tedious.
>
>
>
>
> On 6 December 2013 17:25, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We do.  We buy lots of stuff from sparkfun and adafruit.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Charles Tang <cjtang1 at asu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not build your electronic devices with companies.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 December 2013 16:30, Cameron Hackett <camhkt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Charles Tang <cjtang1 at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  there are more chapters of aquarium associations here in the bay area
>>>>> than hacker spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why not build this aquarium project with one of these associations,
>>>> then?
>>>>
>>>> Seems to me like you'd find more people with similar interests.
>>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Ronald Cotoni
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