In addition to the space and the community, being a member of Robots and Dinosaurs gives you access to a wide range of tools and equipment. Some of this is owned by R&D, some by Sydney Robot Workshop, and some is on loan from members.
Specialised Robotic/CNC equipment:
General Hand tools:
- Screwdrivers:
- There are two boxes of screwdrivers, of a wide variety of shapes and sizes, including Flat-blade, Phillips, Posidrive, and various security bits.
- Staple gun
- Craft knives
General Power tools:
- Drill press
- Sander
- Cordless hammer drill
- Corded hammer drill
- Vertical bandsaw
- Hot glue gun
- Heat gun
- Engraver
Woodworking:
- Saws
- Clamps
- Hammers & mallets
- Files & rasps
- Paint
- Handheld router
- Handheld jigsaw
- Sandpaper
Metalworking:
- Hacksaws
- Metal cutting horizontal bandsaw
- Lathe
- Column mill
- Hammers & mallets
- Files & rasps
- Sandpaper
- MMAW welder with associated safety equipment
- Angle grinder
Electronics:
- Digital Storage Oscilloscope with logic analyser
- Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
- Multimeters
- Soldering irons & stations
- Hot air rework station
- IR Reflow oven
- Bench power supplies (15A capable)
INFORMATION BELOW THIS POINT MAY BE OUT OF DATE
Computing:
- Programming
- Server (file server/web server/proxy) (ATSystems - Have a dual Slocket @ 700MHz/1Gb RAM machine with tonnes of SCSI in it, low spec but maybe useful to run an internal wiki on?)
- Laser Rpinter
- Projector (@jharsem)
- Motion capture rig
- Wifi (@littlebirdceo)
Mundane Misc:
- Badge maker (@gsta)
- White boards (@littlebirdceo)
- Power extension cables (@littlebirdceo)
- Work lights (@littlebirdceo)
- Storage systems
- Lockers
- A sofa bed
- Speakers (even cheap ones, for playing music) (@predakanga; @mattjoyce)
- Amp (@mattjoyce - 2ch DSE & 4ch Sony)
- A water feature for the foyer
- Copper waterlilly I made while back with pump & base (@maxnippard)
Kitchen:
- Coffee/Caffeinated Drink
- Microwave (if it's wanted/needed - Big)
Education:
- Lectures and experts in Arduino (@littlebirdceo)
- Reference books
- Cocoa programming book (@smallkathryn)
- Many "Gingery" Series books on furnace/metalworking (ATSystems)
- Several PIC/Micro books, electronic theory books (ATSystems)
- Several Airbrushing and painting technique books (ATSystems)
- Magazine subscriptions - e.g. make and Circuit Cellar
- most issues of make plus new ones as they come out (@maxnippard)
- Bookshelf for communal books and magazines
- ATSystems; ~5x7 foot bookshelf
- The space also has this.
- Magazine holders (@smallkathryn)
Craft:
- Silk-screening supplies and "wet area" (to conduct silkscreening) + vacuum frame (~24x40 inch silkscreen)
- Letterpress equipment and engraving machine
- Vinyl cutter
- Sewing maching
Art Material
- Airbrush & small compressor (@jharsem)
- Paints
- Photographic Lights (@jharsem)
Loan Kits:
- Different microcontroller (@littlebirdceo)
- SBC prototyping 'kits'
- Library of dev kits
Materials:
- Perspex/Acrylic and plexiglass
- Thermoplastic (HIPS) offcuts (@KeanM)
- Woodworking tools + wood store
- Pigments
- Assorted square/rectangular steel tubing (R3becca)
Mechanical:
- Hoist
- Engine crane(s)
- Dyno
Safety:
- First aid kit
- Fire blankets
- Smoke detectors
- As fitted in the space, require new batteries, and wiring into the space.
Performance / Film Making:
- Blue screen
- Stock of standard clamps / bar extensions
- Cheap dimmer racks waiting for the lighting desk you bring with you
- Electric piano keyboard (@smallkathryn - steampunked for a circus show)
Events:
- Change counting machine (surely we could make one)
- Two cash boxes (helps for managing floats, excess cash, running simultaneous events)
Donations
Jon: Happy to donate a PanTilt web camera for security/whatever purposes. Also an LCD projector or two =).
Kean: I can donate a hot air soldering/rework station (similar to Jaycar TS-1570), and probably some test equipment (bench PSU, old Tek mainframe oscilloscope (100MHz but big), etc), maybe even an old lathe once I upgrade...
smallkathryn: Happy to donate some reference programming books, and I might be able to donate some couches and a fridge
Justin: If anyone is seriously intrested in motion capture I've got a bunch of Ascension Motion Star gear.
http://www.ascension-tech.com/realtime/MotionSTARWirelessLITE.php
adam : i've got a weller soldering station i'm happy to donate + a whole bunch of misc tools and gadgets multimeters and such.
rich: I've got a fairly neat and useful P4 desktop with 2Gigs of RAM and a 17" LCD - it'd make a pretty decent machine for PCB design or machine control?
Mike Horne; [updated] I have 7 upright coat lockers, could be useful to either keep lengths of wood/metal stock in, or could be laid flat and stacked for paint/volatile liquid storage, or tools. May need a ute to pickup in one hit though.
Comments (3)
matt.joyce@... said
at 7:06 am on Apr 24, 2009
What about materiasl and services?
v0rn said
at 1:02 pm on Apr 24, 2009
I have an osc.. it's just a crappy old DSE cheapo, but it works!
David Vernon said
at 3:30 pm on Apr 24, 2009
Have abused my new editorship by adding the mechanics' workshop / performance stuff above!
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