Wednesday night – O’ Brother can you spare an O’scilloscope

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Friends

The Vermont Generator Makerspace is looking for some tool donations. Here’s a partial working list of the stuff we’re still looking for. If your garage, basement or workshop is full of tool that need a home please take a look at this list and let us know

If you have bigger , more exotic tools you’d like to get rid off (CNC routers, , sandblasters, etc) please let me know. we may be able to work out a membership in exchange for donation or lease of those things.

It’s really exciting to see this all come together.

note all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

Hand Tools:
1. Screw Drivers Assortments: Phillips, Slotted,Square Screwdriver
2. Hex driver Sets
3. Pliers: Gripping, Combination jaw, Vise grips,Needle Nose, Tongue and groove, Non-Marking
4. Sheet metal shears
5. Wire Crimps, Snips & Strippers
6. Wrenches: Adjustable, Ratcheting, Box &Torque
7. Wrench Sets: Open end/Combination &Socket (SAE & Metric)
8. Hammers: Ball Peen, Claw, Non-marring,Sheet Metal, Rubber Mallet & Sledge
9. Thread Cutting Tap & Die
10. Saws Coping, Hack, Handsaw, Razor Saws &Pull (Japanese)
11. Chisel/Rasp set
12. Files Sets: Half-Round, Rectangular, Round
13. Punches: Center, Sheet Metal, Transfer
14. Rivet Gun
15. Clamps: Bar, Spring & C
16. Bench Vices & Table Vices
17. Levels
18. Carpenter Square
19. Measuring Tapes
20. Metal T-Squares
21. Metal Rules
22. Caliper Sets
23. Digital Caliper <Chris has secured>
Power Tools:
1. Portable Electric Drills
2. Countersink bit set
3. Circular Saw
4. Hammer Drill
5. Impact Driver
6. Jig Saw
7. Scroll Saw
8. Bench top Drill Press
9. Air Compressor
10. Heat Guns
11. Glue Guns
12. Soldering Stations – Variable power (40w)
13. Digital Multimeters
14. Oscilloscope
15. Power Supply – bench top adjustable
16. Plastic Vacuum Former
Furniture:
1. Couches (2)
2. Arm Chairs (2)
3. Coffee Table
4. Swivel Casters
5. Metal Work Benches
6. Metal Warehouse Shelving Racks
7. Parts Bins
8. Small Refrigerator
9. Coffee Maker <Green Mountain Donation??>
10. Picnic Table (in good shape)
11. Bar stools with backs (20)
12. 8 Office Chairs for Classroom <Logic Supplyis donating>
Building Materials:
1. Plywood sheets 4’x8’ (in good shape)
2. Acrylic Sheets
3. Saw Horses
4. Extension Cords
Other:
1. Theater Curtains – Heavy Duty <Dan hassecured>

Tuesday night – Skating away

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The ice has transformed  everything around us again. Our yard is covered with a hard white glaze and the field behind us which is normally covered in stubble is as smooth as glass. The lovely Davis girls were over today playing with Diane. They took advantage of the conditions to go out and skate on the old cow pasture.

i took a few moments away from my work just to watch them…

i really love were we live

note all nite sam

-me

Monday night – paper towel philosphy

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First day back at work after break…. and it showed.. folks were dragging them selves around work.
I actually enjoyed my day.. i sat on the floor of my office and tried to get through my holiday backlog. (you got one too ? ) …. I’m till gaining on it.

Not much to report from this rainy day though .. there’s sheets of ice everywhere.. kinda dismal.. my windows at work were leaking.. which reminds me of something I noticed last night. at home. . Paper towels with little words of wisdom.. on them… .>W ell, word of wisdom is a stretch.. kinda greeting card philosophy, really.. and only three different ones through the whole role. You might ask why we have them.. but it was the only 24 pack of paper towels cosco had…

so for the next n months we’ll be constantly reminded to smile every time we clean up..

it’s kinda like those mechanical thank you lights at toll booths.. do they really mean that ? do they appreciate my paying ? I wonder that every time i see one of those thank you’s light up

and thats what I’m thinking about this evening.. more..and hopefully more useful toguhts tomorrow..
nite all. nite sam
-me

Sunday – updated Samstones site

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Coming to the end of a very needed, very restful two weeks vacation. I can't remember the last time I took so much time off. I really didn't have any goals for the time off other than to relax. And relax I did.
I did get some good projects done. Made some good progress on a longtime musical project I'm doing with friends. Help to run initial setup of the Burlington generator maker space. Saw friends. Stayed up late, slept late… Spent time with family. Checked off all the things I had hoped to do.

My last project was to update the Samstone's website. (Samstones.org). That's a tribute site I created for Sam and the Samstone's project back shortly after Sam died in 2006. It was my first experience with WordPress and with writing PHP. Since then I've done a lot of WordPress blogs and I've gotten reasonably good at keeping them current. But, i was always too afraid to change the Samstone's page because of all of the PHP packing I had to do back then to get it to work. I was so worried that all of the stories and Samstone placements etc. would get lost if I made a mistake.

More recently I started to worry that my old WordPress version (2.02) was going to fall off the edge of the earth. I could no longer get plug-ins etc. and there was no facilities for exporting content. I'd written a bunch of Python code at one point to extract it for archive but there was no way to keep it moving with essentially seven-year-old code.

So the last couple of days I bit the bullet back everything up as best I could and slowly moved the thing up through seven versions of WordPress. I have to give it to the WordPress guys they've made it's very easy and robust to jump levels. What you get past a certain point (2.7) all the updates are automatic.

So a few minutes ago I just finished bringing the thing to current level(3.8) . It will make things a whole lot easier to maintain and extend . It makes me feel good that this site that talks about Sam, organ donation, Sam's Legacy fund, and sandstones will now be easier to maintain.

I feel good that even after seven years the site gets quite a bit of traffic. I think Samstone's has turned out to be a very good way of keeping Sam's spirit moving in the world.Thanks to all of you out there who have sent in Samstone placements or fines or requests. Keep them coming!

As everyone gets back to work this week , i wish you all a happy and productive 2014. Let's make it so!

Night all, night Sam
– Me