Free Electric Milkfloat! -- was: [Fwd: [london-hack-space] Digest for london-hack-space@googlegroups.com - 9 Messages in 3 Topics]

[Richard Smedley]

Wow, a milk float presents a whole world of hacking possibilities :-)

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Today's Topic Summary

Group: http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/topics

* Free milk float <#group_thread_0> [2 Updates]
* Sparkfun give away! <#group_thread_1> [1 Update]
* Poll for members: Buying a pillar drill <#group_thread_2> [6 Updates]

Topic: Free milk float
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James Darling <ja...@abscond.org> Nov 25 08:19PM

Hi,

As some of you may know, I own a 1987 milk float:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abscond/collections/72157606330424349/

It's now free to a good home. I thought I'd try hackspace first.

First, the reasons for giving it away: I've been failing to find
the time
and knowledge to wire the charger into my home fuse box for a long
time now
(I have however driven it about 2 miles, so it does work), and I'm
planning
to move flats in the next few months, so would like to see it go
to a good
home. It cost me £500 to buy, but would rather see it go to a good
home, and
quickly, than hassle with money.

Why you should have one:
* It's free
* It's MOT void, so no MOT required, and therefore, no road tax
needs paying
* It's congestion charge free
* Many councils, eg westminster, have free parking schemes on all
council
parking spaces
* It costs roughly 1p/mile to run. The only additional cost is
insurance.
* It's beautifully low tech. You can follow every wire, and even I can
understand how each part works.
* http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/faq.html tells you more, and has a
lightly
active mailing list of milk float geeks.

It's free, but I would require you come and take it away. Worst
situation,
you pay a tow van to do it for you. It cost me £80 to move it from
south
south London (M25) to north north London (North Circular)

If anyone's interested, let me know. If I get no responses here,
I'll be
advertising on the milkfloats mailing list.

--
James Darling

@abscond | 07811407085 | http://abscond.org

Rude? I loosely follow http://five.sentenc.es

[Andrew Williams]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:19:02PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote:
>
> Wow, a milk float presents a whole world of hacking possibilities :-)
>

With the lack of MOT, Tax and congestion charge its a commuters dream as
well, shame the other commuters won't be happy about it :)

--
Andrew Williams
w: http://tensixtyone.com/
e: andy (at) tensixtyone.com

[John McKerrell]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Williams <an...@tensixtyone.com> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:19:02PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote:
>
> Wow, a milk float presents a whole world of hacking possibilities :-)
>

With the lack of MOT, Tax and congestion charge its a commuters dream as
well, shame the other commuters won't be happy about it :)

 I was thinking a few years ago how a milk float could be ideal for OSM mapping, pootle around the residential streets quietly mapping away.

[Adrian McEwen]

Lots of batteries to run the GPS unit and assorted other tech too, and
space for a couple of observers to be noting down the relevant features
as you went... ideal :-)

Adrian.