Donations

Hack Shelves

The hack shelves are along the left wall when walking past the Turing classroom towards the back of the space, across from the Sparkle Forge. They hold parts and materials for use in your project. Feel free to use anything you like from there, but be excellent. Specifically:

* Leave the hackshelves more organized than you found them.
* Don't take things to sell.
* Don't take things just to furnish your house.

Donations

Noisebridge loves donations! But we don't love all donations. We can't use everything, and some things take up lots of space and/or cost us lots of money to get rid of. Which results in Noisebridge being poorer than if we never got the donation in the firstplace.

Also, if you donate a resource and do not guide its use, then it is possible that it may get turned into a ROBOT. Yes, a ROBOT: a lifeless husk of wood and plastic.

How to Donate to Noisebridge

1. Check to see if what you'd like to donate is listed below as something we definitely don't want. If we don't want it, please don't bring it to Noisebridge. We won't change our mind, we promise.
2. If it's something that's big, and you have any doubt that we might want it, send an email to noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net about a week before you plan to bring it in, and we can give you a sense of whether we'd like it or not.
3. Bring it in! You can leave your donation on the incoming donations table just to the left of the elevator gate. We'll go through it and incorporate the stuff that's useful into the right place in the space, and properly dispose of what we can't use.
4. Ask a NB voluteer to write down what you donated, and your name+address, and email it to treasurer@noisebridge.net.
5. Our awesome treasurer emails them a PDF receipt. NOTE: We can't provide valuation information on the receipt. The receipt will simply list the items you donated and it's up to you to provide a value if you want to claim a charitable donation for tax purposes.

Donations we definitely don't want

• CRT Monitors - please only bring CRTs if you intend to use the parts for anything other than a normal monitor. We prefer LCD's. Why? CRTs are large, put out a lot of heat, and are difficult to dispose of. We can't accept donations of CRTs unless they're very special-purpose, because e-waste disposal of CRTs is very expensive in California. The exception is for unique devices, for example the slow-scan CRT in the SEM or the vector CRT in an old arcade stand-up console. A special-purpose but uninteresting CRT, like from a commercial security system, would probably not qualify.
• PCs older than Core 2 Duo
• Car batteries
• Servers

Donations we'll take, but will probably take apart for parts even if they work

• Printers
• Scanners

Donations we especially want

• Development boards
• Electronic components
• Awesome, funky old things
• Robots
• Motors
• ????? Put stuff you want here