Hack Space fundraiser at GeekUp - prizes!

[Jonathan "Squirrel" Powell]

So on top of the generous donation of the engraved iPod touch from
Channon and (I believe) an Arduino kit from Aaron, Linda from NTI
Leeds has offered a prize of one month's membership at the Old
Broadcasting House co-working space.

Top stuff.

Do we have any more prizes? Also what format will it take? Are we
going with the ticketed raffle idea, or will it be an auction? If it's
an auction I guess we need a few more random trinkets that people
would bid for.

Ideas?

- JP

[Adam Ray]

I think we should go with raffle idea. Stack them high sell them
cheap. I can offer my shoes, was caught out again :(



On 2 Jul 2009, at 19:36, "Jonathan \"Squirrel\" Powell" <squ...@gmail.com

[The Ginger Ninjer]

if, at the next meet up, i bring some tools, some dead hard drives (3 and 5 inch), some string, and one i made earlier as a template, we could make hard drive platter wind chimes:

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/WindChimeStory

for giving away as runner-up prizes?

also they are quick to make and with the side effect of leaving us with a selection of lovely magnets, voice coils, bearings, and those special stepper motors. in fact there's a real array of technologies in hard drives and in any decent grab bag there will be plenty to talk about as you see the different ways each manufacturer meets the design challenge. jobs can be broken down into:

disassembly (mostly brains, some brute force required),
sorting (indulge your inner librarian),
hole drilling (insert freudian analogy here),
filing off burrs and sharp edges (safety first)
manufacture (would suit creative)
polishing off fingerprints and bagging up (ocd applicants only)

ok it's not giant robots mercilessly crushing the meatbags yet, but every evil genius has to start somewhere...

also, if wind chimes aren't sufficiently awesome, this: http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/04/25/top-5-uses-for-a-dead-hard-drive/

M@