Projects:Flyingcircus
| Flyingcircus | |
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| 1st line contacts: | berz_ |
| Does: | Organize the flying circus |
| Does not: | |
| Contact: | |
| IRC: | #sha2017-flyingcircus |
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| Needed resources: | |
| Comment: | |
| Vacancies: | 0 |
| Current project size / amount of ppl: | 6 |
| Contact at projectleiding: | User:Berz |
Contents
About
The flying circus is an area of the field dedicated to all things hardware hacking. It will provide open workshops dedicated to different areas of expertise such as metalworking, electronics and CNC machining. We will also provide infrastructure for people that want to give workshops or present hardware related talks.
The project was announced during a lightning talk duringSHA2017 orga meeting 20160924: recoring of the presentation, slides.
Organisation
Project Team
At the moment the project team consists of:
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berz_
Nickname: berz_
Team: Team:Flyingcircus
HackerSpace: VoidWarranties
- Gori
Nickname: Gori
Team: Team:Flyingcircus
HackerSpace: RevSpace
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Yashiko
Nickname: Yashiko
Team: Team:Flyingcircus
Role: Decoration / Design
HackerSpace: Walking Robot
- Firemonkey Could not find information about Firemonkey .
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Is the correct casing used in the username? - Warddr
Nickname: Warddr
Team: Team:Flyingcircus
Role: Electronics
HackerSpace: Voidwarranties,HSBXL
- Tomvdz
We could use some extra people on the project team, in particular people with hardware hacking expertise.
Communication
Some hackers we are working with to realize this project have more expertize in the hardware side of things instead, and are relatively unexperienced in software related matters. While most teams use irc and mailinglists for internal communication, in our case this would exclude some taleted people from contributing to our project. Because usability is more important for us than some other teams choices made in this regard might diverge from what is usually used.
- wiki: Information for public consumption will be published on the project's wiki page and the pages it links to.
- irc: #sha2017-flyingcircus on freenode
- etherpad: Information meant for consumption by the project team only is stored on the etherpad. https://pad.sha2017.org/p/flying_circus
- Slack: used for communication within the project team: https://sha-flyingcircus.slack.com/messages/general/
- email: we would like to set up an email adress that can be used to contact the project team. eg. flyingcircus@sha2017.org, which gets forwarded to some people on the team (ie: not a mailing list). Todo: contact team:sysadmin.
Workshops
At the moment we are organising the workshopos by dicipline, as we do not know yet how they will be laid out in the verious tents. We want to provide workshops for these diciplines:
- metalworking
- smithing
- woordworking
- textiles and leather
- digital and analog electronics
- fablab: 3d printers, lasercutters ...
Workshop staffing
All workshops will need to be staffed by at least one supervisor when they are open. The supervisor is there to ensure proper use of tools and to assist people. This is necessary to prevent damage to both people and equipment. Otherwise it would not be possible for us to provide dangerous tools or borrow expensive machines that could break if used incorrectly.
We are going to need a large amount of volunteers to staff these workshops. Assuming a workshop is open 16 hours a day and the volunteers are willing to do a 4 hour shift every day this means that we need 4 volunteers for every dicipline we have. And these volunteers should know how to operate the equipment present in the workshop safely. We are looking for people to join these per-dicipline teams already, please add yourself if you want to help out.
Use of workshops during buildup
The workshops can be used by other teams during buildup. For example team decoration can use the woodshop to build signage. We do need to know this in advance though, so we can plan our buildup schedule accordingly.
| Team | Necesarry equipment | By when |
|---|---|---|
| decoration | ? | ? |
Content
We will provide a space for people to hold workshops containing tables, chairs, a PA and monitors. We will also provide a space to hold smaller (max 200 people) hardware related talks.
We are reaching out to people that might be interested in giving a talk or a workshop. All content will be added to the camp's program by creating a self-organized session in frab.
We see some opportunity for collaboration with team content, some examples:
- If we attract a well known speaker whose talk would exceed our talk tent we will forward her to team-content
- team content could forward speakers to us if the subject matter is hardware related and of interest to a smaller audience
- It would be nice to encourage speakers who do a hardware related talk in one of the main tent to do a hands on workshop afterwards.
Market
Consumable materials are needed to build physical projects. Lasercutters need sheet goods, arduino's, chips and resistors are needed for electronic projects and the woodshop needs wood. It doesn't make sense to provide a large array of tools if the assorted building materials are not present on site. Therefore we will set up a marketplace where people can buy what they require. If possible we prefer goods to be sold by independent vendors since we don't have to go through the effort of aquiring, managing and selling the stock. This also includes people selling project kits. Items and materials that are necessary but which are not sold by an independent vendor will be sold by us.
We will only be able have a basic selection of items and materials on stock, a wider assortment is not possible due to a lack of storage space and the large upfront investment this would mean. However we are thinking about providing just-in-time deliveries during the camp. People would be able to order items which would then be fetched during daily(?) trips to the hardware store. We would also like to have daily Farnel deliveries, but this would mean convincing them to deliver on weekends. "Sorry, we don't have that chip in stock, but if you pay in advance we can have it here by tomorrow at noon." would be nice.
The emphasis of the marketplace should be to make things available, not to make money. We will sell items for about their purchasing price and kick our vendors that are overly commercially.
Decoration
We know from experience organizing hardware hacking areas at OHM2013 and CCC camp 2015 that decoration has a large impact on atmosphere. The flying circus will have its own theme containing circus, steampunk, industial and monty python design elements. Creating this experience would be easier if we have some vaguelly circus-like tents, a cluster of sterile white tents doesn't come across as a welcoming place for creativity, building and learning.
Risc managment
We are aware there are many risks present in the flying circus: the woodworking area can catch fire, the spray booth could explode, dangerous chemicals will be present to etch pcb's and circular saws will kill you if used incorrectly. We are working pro-actively to mitigate these risks, some people on the project team have had safety and security training and we will coordinate our efforts with team Permit and team Safety and Security once more details are known.
