[SGVLUG] various creative spaces around town..

[Arthur Baldwin]

Hi John Wang,

I've been working with LibreCAD and KiCAD for just a little while now.  I'm planning to officially "retire" in about 6 months from now.  And I'm currently working on designing my own computer motherboard and custom computer case.  I have not made much progress as yet.  Part of the problem is getting the pin out descriptions for the CPU chip and support chips.  The KiCAD libraries don't exist for most of the needed chips, so they have to be made from scratch.  I've already contacted AMD and they don't want to give me any pin out diagrams unless I become their "partner".  I don't know yet what this "partnership" will involve...I will be investigating that next week.
By the way....if anybody on this list knows where to get a "boatload" of pinout diagrams...please let me know.

I took a look at your bottle opener site.  It's so nice to see someone using Linux like that!  

Sincerely,

Arthur Baldwin

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:01:16 -0700 (PDT), John Wang <red744t at yahoo.com>

wrote:
> I've been working on a open source oriented space, www.tux-lab.com for a
> while.   The goal is to build physical objects with open source
software.  
> It's a slow process but I'm finally finishing up a simple bottle opener,
> designed with FreeCAD, used OpenOffice calc for a long list of inch to
> millimeter unit converion (FreeCAD is metric only for now), dimensioned
> with LibreCAD (in inches), the logo was designed with Inksacpe,  The
g-code
> for machining was writen using gedit.   The project website is running
> Ruby/Rails/Apache.  All the server/workstation/laptop are running
Debian.  
> 
> 
> The bottle opener is very simple but everything from design to
> manufacturing was/is being completed with open source software.   The
> status of the bottle opener is at, 
> 
> http://www.tux-lab.com/tux_project_detail?id=2#84
> 
> Ultimately, I like to form a domestic manufacturing entity using
entirely
> open source software and is fiscally and intellectually transparent.  
> However, for now it's just learning the various required open source
> tools.   If anyone is interested and would like to meet on a regular
basis
> to learn the various open source tools, ie KiCAD, FreeCAD, CAELinux,
> g-code/CAM, arduino, ROS,  and etc, please let me know.    I don't know
> enough to teach so we'll have to use the distributive group learning
> model.  
> 
> Open source manufacturing sounds cool but I have very limited experience
> with either so it takes an obscene amount of time to do the simplest
task
> at a barely acceptable level.   A few people have express interest and
I'll
> schedule a walk through/demo on the making of the bottle opener with a
> simple g-code intro once I complet the project.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> ________________________________
> From: matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> 
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:17 AM
> Subject: [SGVLUG] various creative spaces around town..
> 
> 
> fyi - a few useful _spaces around town.. - enjoy matti
> 
> 
> Droplabs - note they have an event calendar:
> ( drupal is big here as to be expected )
> http://droplabs.net/events
> 
> Null Space
> http://wiki.032.la/nsl/Null_Space_Labs
> 
> Crash Space
> http://blog.crashspace.org/
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