So You Want To Donate Stuff

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Donation Rules

Please follow these guidelines when donating an item to the space. These are entirely borrowed from the Hacklab.TO rules:

• Full donation: Decide if you are lending or donating the equipment to the Hacklab. Donated equipment will be free for members to use as they please, for as long as they please. This includes disassembling, re-purposing, turning into artwork, whatever. The equipment should also be yours to give -- make sure it is not on your employer's books. Loaned equipment should be CLEARLY LABED with your name and the intended use.

• High hack / educational value: Device in question is very well documented, in excellent condition, and is modern and interesting. It should be open, and software/firmware if required should be included or be easily available on the public internet.

• High usefulness: Device in question is modern (can be interfaced with today's products) and is in perfect working condition. We should be able to trust it and rely on it. Broken computers are a dime a dozen; we don't have room to store them. The device should also be power-efficient and environmentally responsible, since its use will affect the Hacklab's power bill. Today's 1GHz Atom beats your 2.4GHz P4 while using 10% of the power.

• Historical value: Some things can get by without meeting the above restrictions based entirely on their historical awesomeness (size permitting). If you want to donate an Altair 8800 to the lab, nobody will complain.

Please note that this excludes materials for the project you're working on, provided they fit in your bin.

Items available for use at the space

Some members have equipment / tools / odd stuff / spare parts they wish to donate that does not necessarily meet the above requirements. If you think you have something other members may want to use in a project, please add it to this page

Old computers & other junk

Kari (irl Mike) is willing to take any and all old computers, no questions asked. Actually, make that any hardware that the space rejects...:) Karikamiya 06:14, 8 March 2010 (UTC)