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

Wed Jul 10 10:05:02 UTC 2013

I was being sarcastic.

On 07/10/2013 02:13 AM, Robert Picone wrote:
> Isn't part of the point for them to be visible?  As I understand it, 
> one of the biggest issues with sleeping at noisebridge was people 
> slipping somewhere out of sight to actually use as a bedroom rather 
> than a place to drowse off temporarily, knowing they'll be wakened soon.
>
> If someone is snoring particularly noticeably in the stackers and not 
> actively hacking as they do so, I don't see any reason why you 
> shouldn't wake them and explain that they're making it harder to work, 
> and that they should try to avoid sleeping at the space anyway.  You 
> should treat it like you'd treat anyone else that was being loud 
> without doing any actual hacking.
>
> Only if you actually see wires sticking out of their head, or some 
> sort of hacked apnea-abating device plugged into their face should you 
> really feel any obligation to actually let them sleep if it's disruptive.
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Eric W. Rasmussen <ewr at majortek.com 
> <mailto:ewr at majortek.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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