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Jon Gabrielson  
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 More options Apr 9 2012, 11:24 am
From: Jon Gabrielson <j...@directfreight.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:24:40 -0500
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2012 11:24 am
Subject: Re: Mobile Hackerspace.
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I think a mobile hackerspace is a great idea but I don't know if an
ambulance is the best platform.  If you want a motor, I would vote
for a school bus but I think that something without a motor would
be cheaper and you simplify license, insurance, maintenance, etc..
if you don't have to worry about an engine.  A large trailer should
be fairly cheap and then any member with a hitch could easily
move it.

Jon.

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:28 PM,  <Scott.Kovale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the mobile space idea. Frankly, I am sort of willing to run with any
> idea. But a rolling hackerspace is pretty different. Are you volunteering
> parking, Brad?

> I remembered this article from MAKE that has a lot of advice on what goes
> into a mobile lab/workshop:
> http://blog.makezine.com/2010/05/14/make-it-anywhere-with-a-mobile-lab/

> If we aren't careful here, we are going to think/talk our way out of doing
> anything... This might be a reasonably low risk (read cheap) way of just
> pulling the trigger on a bad idea and trying to make it work.

> On , Brad Collette <shopinthewo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I keep thinking about the idea of converting an ambulance into the world's
>> first mobile hackerspace.

>> We could have meetings anywhere from a members driveway to a restaurant
>> parking lot to a public park.

>> Other advantage:
>> -Balloon launch chase vehicle.
>> -Mobile parts bin
>> -Anyone want to go to Makerfaire or SXSW?
>> -Built-in advertising.
>> -Tailgating!

>> -It IS a hackerspace project (or 50)
>> -We would be the first, so we'd get a ton of press. (Hackaday, Make
>> magazine, etc)

>> Here's a site with used ambulances to get you thinking.
>>  http://www.draper2.com/evss1_002.htm

>> --
>> Brad Collette
>> 573-427-7132


 
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