[ELECTRON] Equipment in the room

[Rob Spencer]

Check who has signed out the key. Someone must know. It's unacceptable that people's hardwork goes to waste by tinkering hands.

Or just rig up a video camera. Simples.

Cheers

Rob

> On 27 Aug 2014, at 16:51, Alice <fleabite531 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering how other hackspaces solve this problem. The one in London
> (which is amazing btw and everyone who can should visit if they can. They
> have open evenings every Tuesday) has a ton of equipment. I remember there
> being a lot of signage. I'll be going along anyway as moving to london for
> 5 months in September, so I'll find out how they do it and if their system
> works. As you said, this is an ongoing problem and we need a longterm
> solution.
> 
> Another thing I liked there was a rotating 3 week bin system for old bits
> of kit etc. The bins are moved steadily downstream and anything left in by
> week 3 gets thrown out.
> Yes, this again... read on, there's a nice horror story.
> 
> On Monday I visited the room to find that someone had been messing
> around with the router and the computer. The router wasn't responding
> to WiFi requests, on investigation someone had plugged in a cable
> between ports 3 and 4 which seems to cause it to fail totally. It's a
> fairly old piece of low end kit, while it does the job it's seemingly
> easily confused.
> 
> Various wires including the network connection had been removed from
> the computer.
> 
> Perhaps more dangerously someone had changed two of the wires on my 3D
> printer. The temperature sensors for the hotend and bed had been
> switched. As consequence when heating the extruder the system was
> getting a temperature reading for the bed, which was ambient
> temperature, and continued to throw more and more power to heat the
> hotend. I quickly noted the black smoke, hit the emergency stop and
> opened the windows.
> 
> The hotend/jhead are unsalvagable, the replacements are an outgoing I
> could have done without.
> 
> I and other members are growing tired of having to tidy up the room
> and/or fix the infrastructure when we arrive so that it's fit for
> others to use. We shouldn't have to be doing this. I shouldn't have to
> be sending this email. People should expect the equipment to be be in
> a safe working state, or at least the state their projects were in on
> previous use, given that some items are left in the room in a damaged
> state, awaiting repair.
> 
> Safety and security are the issues here. There is a lot of equipment
> in the room which, if used incorrectly could do some real damage,
> either to the equipment or the user, the consequences of using
> equipment that has been tampered with are potentially much worse.
> 
> If you see someone messing around with something stop them, or at
> least raise the issue. If you're hosting an event you are responsible
> for your guests.
> 
> If you have any questions or would like to discuss these matters
> further please let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Martin
> 
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