[Imc-makerspace] Your Weekend Update

[Jeffrey Putney]

Hey Everyone,

To follow up on some action items from the last business meeting, Billy
from Volo <https://volo.net/> stopped by open hours Wed again and he has
been moving full speed ahead on figuring out how to make some kind of
"Intro to computers with Makerspace Urbana/UC2B" workshop a reality. He
procured a number of computers we could use(see fwd below). Erich, Emily
and I made some room in the stall in the back for about six of them and he
was nice enough to keep the rest for now so we wouldn't clutter up the
space too much. He also volunteered to speak with some local churches in
UC2B areas about possibly hosting the workshops with them in their spaces.
I think this is a pretty exciting opportunity :-)

Also Carol came by, she has been working with Rose on the sewing Co-op
project and it sounds like we might move forward with a series of
"pre-halloween weekly sewing open hours" with them where we would have
machines setup in the space and people could come and work on their
halloween costumes and get help with sewing (and of course electronics if
they are so inclined). And we're just waiting to hear back from them about
that.

Just wanted to let you all know what's happening,
Jeff


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: billy <billy at volomail.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Subject: MAKERSPACE DONATION
To: peter at volo.net, Quaker at gmail.com, erich.heine at gmail.com,
brandon at volo.net




Hello to all, the computers and other parts have been donated from Volo to
Makerspace safely. We plan to set up workshops at various churches to teach
children how to build computers. The computers that we can get running
during the workshop will be given away to the students. Scheduling for the
workshops will be dependent upon if certain churches will be willing to let
Makerspace use space within the church for the workshop. The Churches we
will seek will preferably be in UC2B areas. The list below is the inventory
for the equipment that was given. Thank you all!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Donated Equipment
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:43:45 -0500
From: Brandon Martino <brandon at volo.net>
To: Billy at volo.net
Cc: Peter Folk <peter at volo.net>

12 towers (all have an xp key)
9 - are micron PC intel D845GRG mother board (most of the machines don't
work-power on)
1 - is a white case PC intel D865GPL mother board
1 - is a white case PC intel D101GLC mother board
1 - is a dell dimension 4500

2 totes:

1 tote contains:
*Mostly AGP Graphics Cards (Some cards don't work)
*Pci express 16 graphics card (very few if any)

1 tote contains:
*DDR2 256 MB ram (some ram chips may be bad)
*DDR1 512 ram
*20-80 GB IDE/SATA Hard drives (some hard drives may not work, very few if
any sata)
*power box/supply
*IDE/SATA cd/dvd-rom drive (very few if any sata drives)
*windows xp sp2 oem disk
------------------------------**------------------------------
with these together, it is a guarantee that at-least 5 complete towers can
be created, with a bunch of "extra parts" parts
These were item that we would have given to the junkyard, and in the near
future, we might have another supply of parts





-- 
Jeffrey Putney
Senior Software Engineer
Diagnostic Photonics
217-766-6580



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