[Imc-makerspace] Your Weekend Update

[Barry Todd]

Just had thought, what about a float in the July 4th parade next year.
Lots of things we could do to show our stuff.  Big opportunity to
advertise.  I know it is a big undertaking.  Just a thought.

Barry

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jeffrey Putney <quaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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