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# Proposal
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This project was originally thought up by JD/Jason (sorry I don't know
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your full name). The general idea would be we would pick one item a week
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to disassemble, and we would document each step with a text description
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and photographs.
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## Proposal Vitals
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**Status**: In Progress, Discussion
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- Project Lead: Derek Cooper
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- Proposed Budget: \$ Unknown but enough to cover a domain name and
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hosting
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- Goals:
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- To document hardware with text, photographs and possibly video.
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## Background
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From JD/Jason's original email to HacDC Blabber:
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> After last night's disassembly spree, and reading the "hear the code"
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> blog bits, I was thinking it would be interesting to start a "take it
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> apart" column. The general idea would be we would pick one item a week
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> to disassemble, and we would document each step with a text
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> description and photographs. ("First we removed these screws, then we
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> found these parts" etc) We will go as in depth as possible with the
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> resources and time we have, possibly dumping ROMs (if applicable) and
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> linking to processors involved. Ideally we will be able to reassemble
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> whatever we've taken apart using the documentation we've produced, but
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> that may or may not be applicable depending on the item and how it was
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> originally made. As we progressed, we could either produce blog
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> entries for the main HacDC page, or possibly in the wiki somewhere.
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On January 24, 2009 I (Derek Cooper) discussed this project with Gareth
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Branwyn. Gareth is a member of HacDC and is the online editor of Make
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Magazine. He strongly encouraged us to move forward on this and offered
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to publicize the project.
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## Considerations
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- We need volunteers.
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- Need to setup a mailing list. I'll need to figure out how to do this.
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- I'd like to launch a dedicated domain and website so we can encourage
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people outside HacDC to contribute.
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- If we launch a dedicated website we'd need to come up with a domain
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name. Please add to this list:
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- Unmakery.org (or some other play on un-make)
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- hackwaredb.org
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- I need to find a camera. Hopefully we at least have a still camera
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somewhere in the workspace.
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- Ben built a lightbox which is currently stored on the shelves. I'd
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like to connect it, or another lightbox, permanently to the computer.
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I'd also like to keep it in a more convenient place.
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## Links
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[Category:Proposed Projects](Category:Proposed_Projects "wikilink") |