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

Eric W. Rasmussen ewr at majortek.com
Wed Jul 10 07:53:52 UTC 2013


If the beds were in a separate lab room, I wouldn't have a problem. But 
the beds are in the middle of the space and it forces other members to 
endure snoring and the such.

Why don't you substitute the "Photo Lab" for the "Nuerosky Lab"?


On 07/09/2013 06:06 PM, Leif Ryge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:28:54PM -0700, Jake wrote:
>> sounds like a great big "fear project" to me.
> This is an absurd thing to say about the dreamteam project. What are you
> accusing Kevin of being afriad of exactly? Do you think he sleeps at
> Noisebridge or something? Do you actually think that is his motivation
> for reverse engineering the neurosky protocol? Do you know who you're
> replying to? (I know you've met Kevin AFK but I can't imagine you'd say
> this to him.)
>
>> Noisebridge had a problem with people sleeping in the space, and
>> using it as their residence.
>>
>> The most powerful tool we had was the ability to catch people
>> sleeping and point out that they had grossly misunderstood the
>> purpose of noisebridge, and ask them to leave.  Asking someone to
>> leave when they are falling asleep in your hackerspace is a great
>> way to impress upon them not to do it again, and to respect the
>> space.
> We've been doing that since day 1. It works to varying degrees. Another
> thing we've been doing since day one is talking about having napping
> pods. There are mailing list posts about wanting to do this dating back
> to 2008.
>
> I think it is much easier to notice someone overusing the hackerstackers
> than sleeping elsewhere in the space.
>
>> So then one person who thought it would HELP the situation to build
>> beds in the space (does anyone agree?) teams up with a person who
>> enjoys building stuff no matter what it is, and noisebridge has bunk
>> beds.
> I assume you're saying I'm that one person, but I'm not sure who you're
> saying enjoys building stuff no matter what it is. At least a half dozen
> people helped build the HSNPs, after we discussed it at the two general
> meetings prior to beginning construction.
>
>> Now when we see people sleeping in the space like it's their home,
>> we don't bother to say anything because they'll just point to the
>> beds.
> Have you read the text on the wall next to them? (Serious question.)
>
> ~leif
>
>> -jake
>>
>> kevin wrote:
>> We are currently using an RF Neurosky Mindwave that runs on the
>> ThinkGear Chipset.
>>
>> I call it black box because the device uses proprietary algorithms to
>> give an "e-sense meditation" and "e-sense attention" metric once per
>> second. It also spits out a "power bin" measure for 7 bins between
>> 0-40hz once per second. The frequency domain analysis is also hidden in
>> the chip.
>>
>> On the bright side, we see something like 512 raw data measures per
>> second (as 2 byte integers between 0-65535). As well as a signal quality
>> metric once per second and a blink event can also be recorded in the
>> payload.
>>
>> Essentially, we are always looking for new devices to prototype.
>> Aspiring to make art, science and social networks based on biodata
>> similarity matching.
>>
>> -Kevin
>>
>>
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