Tour

Noisebridge tour starts here! You can follow this tour guide yourself or use it to guide others.

Noisebridge tour starts here!

This is a work-in-progress guided tour of Noisebridge to assist new people exploring themselves or wanting to give tours.

Explore the space and scan the signage for links to wiki tour info

How Noisebridge Works

Noisebridge has a participation manual that covers the major aspects of how to participate at Noisebridge. You can read it on the Wiki in the Manual section.

Things to pay attention and learn from it include: Excellence is our way of being excellent to each other.

Do-ocracy is our way of doing whatever needs doing while being excellent with each other about gathering small-c consensus.

Consensus is our way of deciding major consequential proposals during meetings where members may block for reconsideration.

Meetings are Tuesday nights at 7pm in person or on Jitsi.

Jitsi is our web streaming video chat system and you can use it to participate in meetings and events here.

• We have other communications Channels including Discuss, Discord and Slack.

Joining Noisebridge is easy. Just show up and hack!

Participation is open to anyone who wants to show up and be excellent while learning or hacking on something.

Members can block consensus items and sponsor new philanthropists or members. It takes 4 weeks and 2 member sponsors to become one by consensus.

Philanthropy is a way to get a 24 hour RFID token and donate monthly to the space. It takes showing up at a meeting, 1 member sponsor and sliding scale suggested donation of $40-80 per month.

Guilds are groups of volunteers maintaining resources and organizing events at Noisebridge. Many guilds are more maintainers!

Resource Stations

Noisebridge has a bunch of resource station areas with creative tools that are maintained by guilds.

Fabrication

Noisebridge has many guilds, resources and events related to fabricating physical things.

3D Printing

Noisebridge has many 3D printers that can print solid objects from CAD files.

Circuit Hacking

Noisebridge's longest-running class, Circuit Hacking Mondays is an event held in our Electronics lab.

Code

Noisebridge has lots of classes where you can learn and practice programming.

Use Reader by Scan app for iOS or Goggles app for Android to scan QR codes on Noisebridge tour signs.

This tour is under development

For now, ask someone in the physical space to give you a tour or explore the existing wiki content.

Work to finish updating the tour experience and content

Things to be added to this tour:

A guided walkthrough of the stations:

Vending

Vending Machine with hacker doodads and a donations-based snack and drink fridge.

Library

A Library full of books. There is also a collection of tabletop games.

EVENTS

The Digital Archivists are responsible for organizing the library, scanning books, and creating digital collections.

RESOURCES

• Library
• Bookscanner

Fox Lounge

Lounge Area. Great for meetups, tabletop games, and relaxing, semi-private workspace.

Collaboration Station

EVENTS

• DreamTeam Neurohackery Wednesdays at 8
• NeurotechSF Fridays at 8

RESOURCES

• CollaborationStation Machine
• Project Shelves

Gaming Archive

An area to engage with historical games content.

EVENTS

• Noisebridge Gaming Archivists meet here on Friday evenings.
  • The Noisebridge Gaming Archivists are all about the preservation, modification and enjoyment of video games of yore! Come hang out, play games, mod systems, make chiptunes or just chat.

RESOURCES

• NGALAC - Noisebridge Gaming Archivists Live Arcade Cabinet
• Consoles and Games Shelf
• Racing Station

3D Printing/Fabrication Area

Electronics Area

Sewing and Crafting Area

Dirty Shop

Sparkleforge/Clean Shop

Facilities

RESOURCES

• water filters
• coffee/tea makers
• sink
• bathrooms
• cleaning supplies

Audio Research Area

Turing Room

Church Room

VR Holodeck

An area for experimenting with VR, AR, and games tech.

EVENTS

• Gamebridge Unityversity is taught here, Tuesdays @ 7pm.
  • Gamebridge Unityversity is a weekly Unity game dev meetup and beginner-friendly class for anyone who wants to learn programming, game design, art, music, and how to teach game dev. All skill levels and kinds of game devs are welcome.

RESOURCES

• VR Cart
• Green Screens
• HTC Vive
• Microsoft Mixed Reality

The Noisebridge Manual

Read the Manual to learn how Noisebridge works:

• The Intro Poster content made into a clear poster or across several next to each other
• How Noisebridge works
• How to participate
• How to donate for 24 hour access as philanthropist and eventually member
• What you can do at Noisebridge

Resource Stations

Explore Noisebridge's many resource stations and scan the codes on the signs to learn more about each station's activities including how to use equipment and attend classes.

Noisebridge contains several resources that are at the physical space and in virtual space. These are available to both members and the general public.

Resources

A complete list of our resources is on our Resources page.

Project Spaces and Resources

• Electronics Lab
• Library
• Craft Lab
• Sewing Machines
• Machine shop
• Anodization Equipment

Fabrication

• Fab mailing list - All things related to fab tools at Noisebridge, laser cutter, Makerbot, RepRap, CNC mill
• Laser Cutter
• 3D Printing
• RepRap
• MaxNCMill
• Vinyl cutter
• Button maker

Access Control

• Door Keys
• Electronic door lock
• Noisedoor

Bulk Orders

• Digikey Bulk Order
• McMaster Bulk Order
• Mega Arduino Order
• Adafruit Bulk Order

Facilities

• House Keeping
• 2169 Utilities

Sources for project components

• External resources

To add to the tour and space

• Place Meetings poster next to Hackitorium Telebridge
• More tour guide signage
• Posters on walls of classrooms and front calendar board listing classes taught
• Audio/video tour of each station edited into a nice short video tour of the whole space.
• Integrate tour with touch screen kiosk in the entrance