[Noisebridge-discuss] When were bunk-beds installed?

Mon Jul 8 18:21:20 UTC 2013

Black-Box EEG device?   I.E. "it's a box, with wires"

I'd like to know a little more about the setup.  What kind of board
are you using to do the EEG, and what kind of data can it collect?

-M

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:15 AM, bfb <bfb at riseup.net> wrote:
> The Dream Team meets every Wednesday at Nosiebridge. We just finished
> writing an open source mini-state-machine to read data off our black-box eeg
> monitoring device. Sleep studies are slated to begin soon. Certainly we can
> lay out a few bed rolls if need be.
>
> If the hacker stacker napper pods survive, I will be better maintaining them
> moving forward. IE Cleaning the pads once-per-week, and casting off bedding
> from the frame.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> On 07/05/2013 06:46 PM, Michael Clift wrote:
>
> Hey guys, I do NOT like that NB has become a dump. That is not what I meant,
> and once again a statement is taken out of context in order to weaponize the
> statement. I like the napping bays, I thought it quite progressive when I
> "came back" to NB after being gone for 6 months...I was excited by the
> prospect of doing dream/neuro research at NB, as I am a lucid dreamer and
> one of my freinds is into bio feedback and all that sort of thing,was going
> to bring her equipment to NB for such study, but the Dream Team never quite
> emerged, and YES the Hacker Stacker was misused/co opted by whoever.
> I do think NB should be able to adapt to shifting patterns, and your main
> problem is essentially territorial in nature, and facist in terms of problem
> solving. (in this particular instance, not to mention the whole invasion of
> the Barbarians thing...."Who ARE you people?" Danny, incredulously....well
> we are the people who have done alot of shit for,to and because of
> NB..hacking: it's not just for computers anymore.)
> That being said, I always had the time of my life over there, and I got alot
> of work done, made alot of friends and contacts, and harbor no illwill
> towards anyone there. The scope of my life overshadows all petty concerns
> related to identity politics and basic localism, so I carry on, and I do
> hope when I come back to NB oneday to go into an opensource,kick ass place
> where all are welcome,but not all should stay, and that things be handled a
> little bit more tactfully and reasonable when it has been determined by more
> than one or two Chicken Littles that somebody is not welcome, or banished
> for life for being nothing but themselves and standing up for their
> friends...
> P.MIKE
> end of transmission
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for recapitulating the last year of NB discuss.  I'm sure it
>> was useful for others who are new or haven't been to NB in a while.
>>
>> Come to the Reboot meetings.  Tada, you are nominated.
>>
>> --Naomi
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Eric W. Rasmussen <ewr at majortek.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I understand the concept but this is absolutely absurd. It's like adding
>> > fuel to a fire with the hope that the house will burn faster. The "pods"
>> > completely dominate the space once reserved for 3D printing and Laser
>> > cutting and now users of the space are required to monitor the sleeping
>> > habits of others.
>> >
>> > Whenever there is a problem, there are three fundamental ways of solving
>> > it:
>> >
>> > 1. Ignore it and hope it goes away
>> > 2. Fix the problem by using logic and physical effort
>> > 3. Throw money at it
>> >
>> > However, with every solution arises new problems. What one needs to ask
>> > is,
>> > "Is the new problem greater or less than the previous problem"? If less,
>> > then it's probably a good solution. Let's use the overall messiness of
>> > the
>> > space as an example. We can:
>> >
>> > 1. Ignore it and hope it cleans itself
>> > 2. Clean it
>> > 3. Hire someone to clean it
>> >
>> > #1 isn't going to happen, obviously. #2 requires that people gather for
>> > a
>> > concerted effort. #3 would work but NB is continually living
>> > hand-to-mouth.
>> > #2 seems like the best solution.
>> >
>> > I don't know the answer to homelessness but I am fairly certain that NB
>> > is
>> > not the place for a solution. When was the last time you saw a house in
>> > the
>> > middle of an office complex?
>> >
>> > I am being very honest when I state that I was embarrassed. This topic
>> > needs
>> > to be discussed again. If not the outcome will be:
>> >
>> > #1. People will ignore NB and it will go away.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 07/04/2013 05:49 PM, Dana wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this is as a topic for a future Rebase meeting? There might be
>> >> some
>> >> benefit to discussing sleeping and uses of the space very late night /
>> >> early morning (in addition to ongoing conversations about access and
>> >> the
>> >> kitchen).
>> >>
>> >> I like the harm reduction thinking behind the hacker stackers, but I'm
>> >> not
>> >> sure they're working as intended. I think the space may have more
>> >> sleepers
>> >> now, a culture of "don't sleep at noisebridge" has become a bit more
>> >> ambiguous.
>> >>
>> >> - D
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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