Equipment
Freeside has lots of equipment, spare parts, material, furniture, and almost anything you can think of.
We're always looking to expand, so we also have a Wishlist of equipment that we'd like to have.
Welcome
- Welcome kiosk
- Van de Graaf generator
- Lockpick kit (needs improvement)
- Rhombic hexecontahedron
- Pterodactyl
- Weather station
3D Printing
- Thingomatic
- Cupcake
- Reprap
- The Kraken (custom- and member-designed)
- Member workstation
Electronics Lab
- Solder
- Flux pens
- Flux paste
- Soldering Irons
- Helping Hands with Magnifiers
- Copper wool in cups
- Arduino Uno
- TI MSP430
- Raspberry Pi
- Oscilloscopes
- Bench power supplies
- Multimeters
- Breadboards and test benches
- Desoldering tools
- Many, many spare parts and components
Classroom
- Desk space for 16
- Portable projector
- Whiteboard (both on the wall and on the tables!)
- Official-looking teacher's desk
Server Room
- Racks
- Rack servers running *nix OS, various specifications
- IT workstation
Auditorium
- A bunch of couches and chairs
- 16ft x 9ft projection screen
- 1080p 2500 lumen projector
- 5.2 Surround sound system
- Totally legit podium with a microphone
- Stage for presentation area
- Beautiful, well-designed media cabinet
- Weird videos from the internet
Media Lab
- Media workstations (Windows and Linux)
- Network attached storage (NAS) systems
- Emotiv Epoc brain-computer interface headset
- Vuzix stereoscopic glasses
- Kinect with SDK
- Eye tracking system with Open Gazer and OGAMA
- Arduino
- Raspberry Pi
- Yamaha guitar (let's hack this)
- Ben's custom guitar
- Avid Vocal Studio mic kit
- USB-to-DMX interface
- Dreamlights RGB LED lighting
- 5.1 Surround sound system (it's more like a 9.4 system - Alan)
Bio Lab
- Stereoscopic microscope
- Glassware
- Slides
- Hot plate with stirrer
- Scales
- Incubator
Tool Room
- Jigsaws
- Circular Saws
- Grinders and Cut-off Wheels
- Power Drills and Hammer Drill
- Craftsman Router 315-17300
- Extension Cords
- Dremel Hand Tools
- Planers
- LOTS of almost-complete kits of drill bits
- More than 30 clamps
- Screwdrivers, pliers, and such
Woodshop
- Z-Corp 3D Printer
- Delta 36-430 Table Saw
- Steel City Drill Press
- Shapoko CNC Router
- Grinders and Cut-off Wheels
- (Compound) Miter Saw
- Power Drills and Hammer Drills
- Porter Cable Scroll Saw
- Delta Bench Grinder
- Central Machinery Joiner
- Craftsman Router 315-17300
- Squirrel Cage shop fan
- Propane Blowtorches
- Tons of Extension Cords
Garage
- Busy Bee Lathe
- Lincoln Electric Mig Welder
- Hobart Stickmate Welder
- Ridgid Air Compressor
- Kiln
- Crucible
- Grinders and cut-off wheels
Safety
- Safety glasses
- Ear plugs
- Heavy-duty hearing protection
- Dust masks and air filters
- A hard hat
- Eye wash
- Two First Aid kits
Attic
- Build-out Materials
Outdated List (Remove after review)
This is a list of items we have purchased, or that are being donated.
- Computer hardware:
- (2) 2U 2xPIII rackmount (dknowles) & (dr.kaos compaq proliant)
- Dell 1500SC dual-proc tower server w/ 6 36GB
- SCSI drives (dr.kaos)
- Misc older computers and parts
- 1 Soekris 4801 embedded system -- for fw applications (eater)
- 2-3 1U PowerEdge 1550/1650's for public use (Probably ESX'ed?) (sariel)
- 2-3 1U PowerEdge 1550/1650's for project use (sariel)
- Few 15 inch monitors, may need a little work (sariel)
- HP Netserver LP2000R - 2U dual p4, SCSI raid 5x20gb, redundant PSU (jlash)
- 5 cheap-o web-cams. (2/eater) (1/tronik) (1/kive) (1/dmm)
- 3x15" LCD Samsung displays on a triple-headed Ergotron mount (cjr)
- Computer Software
- VMware ESX enterprise + licenses (dr.kaos)
- Network Hardware
- Cat-5 cable
- 1 spool of RG-6U coaxial cable, w/ insulation ** stripper, crimpers, and connectors. (eater)
- 1U 3Com 24 port hub (ears for mounting included) (sariel)
- I have tools and supplies for running and punching down Cat-5 connections. (eater)
- 1 Cisco 3640 16/64MB 1EFW, 2FE2W (duckie)
- 2 Foundry FastIron FWS24 w 2x Gig SX Uplinks (duckie)
- Infrastructure
- Server rack on casters (lockable) (jweiler)
- 3ft x 7ft ish lockable rack with plexiglass door, fan, and built-in KVM -- donate or extended lend (beth/dc404)
- Electrical / Electronic
- 1 soldering iron (eater)
- 1 soldering iron (sariel)
- 1 electronics protoyping kit with breadboards and random useful components (daeken)
- HP 1220A Oscilloscope (old, but it works.) (phreakmonkey)
- Entertainment
- 1 "thickie" PlayStation2. I acquired this to play with PS2 soft-modding and basic networked media applications. (eater)
- 1 GameCube (dknowles)
- 1 Original Nintendo (kive)
- Several Speakers for Stereo System/Music/etc. (tronik) - DONATED ON 08/04/09
- boombox until we get a better stereo (dr.kaos)
- Jose Quervo shot cooler / machine, may need to convert to water cooler (sariel) - may need to convert to jaeger machine!
- PS2 with two Red Octane dance pads -maybe this should be under nerd-gym equipment (dmm)
- stereo receiver (dmm)
- 500' spool of 24/2 speaker wire (dmm)
- Tools
- Delta 36-430 Table Saw
- Steel City Drill Press
- CNC Mills and CNC Routers
- Jigsaws
- Circular Saws
- Grinders and Cut-off Wheels
- (Compound) Miter Saw
- Power Drills and Hammer Drills
- Porter Cable Scroll Saw
- Delta Bench Grinder
- Central Machinery Joiner
- Craftsman Router 315-17300
- Squirrel Cage shop fan
- Busy Bee Lathe
- Lincoln Electric Mig Welder
- Hobart Stickmate Welder
- Ridgid Air Compressor
- AC Power Supplies and Transformers
- Hexacopter and other RC Machines
- Soldering Irons
- 3D Printers
- Incubator and BioLab
- Chemistry Equipment
- Heat Guns
- CRT Monitors (esp. in arcade cabinets)
- Propane Blowtorches
- Sewing Machines
- Extension Cords
- Dremel Hand Tools
- Jacks and Jack stands
- Crucible
- Kiln
- 220v Industrial Air Compressor
- Pair of heavy-duty jackstands (kive)
- Kitchen
- 1 full size refrigerator
- 1 full size refrigerator needing a vehicle to move it in (dmm)
- 1 microwave (Sarah)
- Antennae & Dishes
- 1 18dBi 2.4GHz sector antenna w/ approx 75' of low-loss LMR-400 cable + N-connectors :) (eater)
- Ku-band satellite dish, FTA receiver (rjhatl
- Books
- Lots of books. Maybe we should just post a picture...
- Lab ware
- a few boxes of glass lab ware (flasks, beakers, graduated cylinders, ...) (dmm)
Equipment we can Lend
Items that we are willing to lend on a temporary basis or make available when needed but not donate.
If you borrowed an item, please note it here: Equipment sign out sheet. (TODO: Post link)
- 36" wide inkjet plotter (jweiler)
- Hand-held jigsaw (eater)
- Heavy duty compound double bevel mitre saw (cjr)
- Shop Vac wet/dry (dub)
- Chumby (daeken)
- SP3Dev FPGA dev board (daeken)
- Roku Player - Netflix streaming for chillaxing area (kive)
- Fish Tank for baby fishies or even large killer whales (tronik) (kive has one or three 50+ gal tanks that may be available, also)
- 12" double bevel mitre saw (dmm)
- router (dmm)
- sawzall (dmm)
- circular saw (dmm)
- drill (dmm)
- 2 microscopes - possible donation if utility is there (dmm)
Equipment we want
Stuff that would be nice to have, but isn't necessarily a necessity.
- A laser cutter
- Drill bits and consumables
- Some hacker spaces, most notably c-base, have a considerable amount of work put into "ambiance"... artistic (and electronic) enhancement to the space. I would love do likewise. It means we'll need paint and lighting supplies, though. (eater)
- tronik's girlfriend paints murals/other artistic environments, also believe duckie said his lady could work on this as well (tronik)
- I have a couple artist friends who would love to come play with our blank walls.
- CNC machine(jweiler)
- Wood working equip. (jweiler)
- Metal working Equip. (jweiler)
- Laser (preferable attached to the cnc) (jweiler)
- Stove/Oven, Fridge, Freezer, liquid nitrogen, molecular gastronomy /foodhacking stuff
- ginormous LED boards (smaller ones too)
- old microwaves (the coils in them are handy for a ton of stuff!) (1NF0)
welders ("cheap" arc, MIG, TIG, spot) (1NF0) Two Post Car Lift