Donate electronic gear

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I tried emailing the via the webportal’s front door, but i’m not sure that was the right place to ask.
A friend of mine gave me:

  • 32 raspberry pi 3’s with
  • a rack to hold them,
  • as well as power supplies rated to run 16 at a time (4 of these),
  • and a pile of cisco 24 port swtiches,
  • with network cables and such.
  • also in the boxes of gear he dumped from his house, was a few year old wireless camera system,
  • some old spy cameras (i assume),
  • a pile of usb switches
  • usb hubs
  • usb selecors
  • hdmi switches,
  • cables for days,
  • cable managment stuff,
  • a pair of 24” monitors with stands, ummm…
  • i think that might be it.
  • wait. no. also all the fuses, connectors and everything else to wire in said pi’s to power supplies.
  • now i thin that might be it…

before i dump all of this at the lcoal re-store (habatat for humanity), i wanted to ask if you guys wanted it first. Chiefly because they (re-store) already get a lot of stuff from my wife and i (we grab stuff off of he curb the day before trash day and then paint/tighten/referb it all before dropping it off there to hopfully help people), and i love you guys way more.

I”m pretty bad at checking back in on this chat thread, but i promise to try.
Let me know.

Thanks

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Hi, @MegaSuperFunWow I’ll grab them, I have a few projects I could use them on. Let me know what time works and I’ll coordinate with you. I won’t need it all so I’ll pass the rest on to Asmbly see if they can have a pi specific class or something. or I’ll put on the up for grabs shelf

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Outstanding. I’ll just go drop it all off in the next hour. I’ll leave it somewhere. How about behind the front desk?

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And done. Stacks of stuff behind desk.

I was hoping you guys might be able to make a class out of some of it.

Or help with Asmbly IT.

Thanks!

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Lovely offer, thanks! Glad someone can use it!

Asmbly IT has been thinking about some displays in the space, so I’ve been idly looking for cost effective display drivers. An older Pi could work!

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Any chance there’s a rasp pi kit there I could grab? Have been wanting to make my own digital calendar/display for home.

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No idea, it’s all already up there and out of my hands.

I would 100% prefer that Asmbly get everything, use for classes or whatever and then give away whatever is left to whomever.

I certainly hope thats what happened. I’m starting to get the feeling that might not be the case, but again, it’s all already gone. ** crossing fingers and dropping a quick prayer **

:+1:

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Understood. And I respect that.

I appreciate your projects of repairing and resurrecting disposed objects and giving them a second life for other families. I’m going to look for opportunities like that now too.

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I grabbed all of it. I’m going out of town for the weekend and didn’t want to leave it piled up. I’ll start distributing stuff next week. @ctihom will definitely save you one

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