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RE: The Competition may be over, but I'm still going to participate.

kmikemoo — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:40:02 GMT

SensoredHacker0 I was wondering if that "Bangor" was Bangor, Maine! It's fantastic to hear that you receive any kind of donations of tech. I graduated from Lewiston (MANY years ago) and that WAS NOT my experience. I was back a couple of years ago and I actually think it got worse.
Keep up the great work! 👍

The Competition may be over, but I'm still going to participate.

SensoredHacker0 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:35:20 GMT

The competition may be over, but this is still a project I would like to complete sometime. Over the summer I was donating Chrome books and kindles to little free libraries in my area.
I realize that might not be the standard fare of little free libraries, but the community response was welcoming. The Bangor Makerspace periodically receives massive donations of old tech that we have no way to deal with, outside of trying to do community projects like this. We also have a rather large collection of STEM book favorites. I recently learned that little free libraries can be indoors, which is suitable for our lack of an outdoor location to place a little free library.

RE: The Competition may be over, but I'm still going to participate.

SensoredHacker0 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:32:31 GMT

I got Darin Beaulieu, working on a STEAM Punk design for our little free STEAM Library. Darin is the Guy for Steampunk stuff in Maine, and I'm excited.

RE: The Competition may be over, but I'm still going to participate.

e14phil — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:44:07 GMT

That wonderful! I look forward to seeing what you do! Please share, you are welcome to comment or post here.

RE: The Competition may be over, but I'm still going to participate.

cstanton — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:16:54 GMT

[quote userid="495059" url="~/challenges-projects/design-challenges/little-free-stem-library-design-challenge/f/forum/54020/the-competition-may-be-over-but-i-m-still-going-to-participate"] Over the summer I was donating Chrome books and kindles to little free libraries in my area.[/quote]

Wow, that's very generous!

"Why didn't I..."

kmikemoo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:46:48 GMT

I never thought of putting technical books in these Little Libraries. I feel a little foolish now. I've probably thrown out some great starter books.

Time to change my wayward ways.

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dougw — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:17:30 GMT

Becoming a better programmer is on my bucket list. I might even have to buy some books on the subject.

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shabaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:39:46 GMT

I like searching for used book bargains. I don't buy a lot, but bought "Microelectronic Circuits" this year, I used it during uni but regretted giving it away. I don't need the latest edition since I'm not doing a class. Also this year I bought "Effective Python" because my Python skills are not effective!

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dougw — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 02:47:35 GMT

I have never seen a tech book exchange before. We have a big bookcase at work where we exchange books, but they are all fiction, which is fine with me. I read technical papers on-line - the books I read are all fiction.

RE: "Why didn't I..."

shabaz — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:21:45 GMT

We have a little book exchange at work, which is a bookshelf with all the unwanted engineering books, mostly very old computing books because they get outdated quickly! : )

I offered (decent) books to my local library, but they refuse to accept any (despite there being just a total of three books that could be considered electrical-engineering-related in the entire 2-floor library currently - and in the Parenting books section bizarrely), because of Book Beaurocracy; there's no process for accepting them. And, according to the senior librarian, even if they could accept them, then their funding for new books gets reduced! You'd think that would reduce tax burden if people could donate, but anyway, ours is not to reason why.

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cstanton — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:12:19 GMT

It happens to a few people, I'm still trying to work out how 🙂

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Jan Cumps — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:27:22 GMT

I'm going to do that. Put some databooks and Object Oriented (Grady Booch !!!!) software books in a random book exchange place.
I don't read them anymore, but they are still relevant, and changed my life.
Why cling onto them?

(Grady Booch' "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications" rewired my brain. That book made me think different, analyse different. Hard to explain, but it unlocked a different thinking pattern. It had and has more impact on my career than my formal studies.
Little correction: My professor in my sophomore year told me to read that book, so that may count as formal studies. Thank you Erik @ Groep T Leuven)

RE: "Why didn't I..."

kmikemoo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:20:04 GMT

cstanton Thank you. Given even odds, I will pick the wrong one most of the time. 😆😂

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e14phil — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:58:02 GMT

with the frizz? no way!

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e14phil — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:57:47 GMT

That's a great idea! We include a bunch in the prize for the best little library!

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scottiebabe — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:33:29 GMT

RE: "Why didn't I..."

cstanton — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:23:24 GMT

I think you meant for this to be a forum post kmikemoo so I converted it for you from a blog post 🙂

[quote userid="45395" url="~/challenges-projects/design-challenges/little-free-stem-library-design-challenge/f/forum/53146/why-didn-t-i"]I never thought of putting technical books in these Little Libraries[/quote]

We would have loved for a 'little library of electronics' but... a little library of electronics books is understated 🙂

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robogary — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:06:14 GMT

I had considered putting together some "experimenters kits" in the libraries. I hesitated since I wasn't sure I could get to the right audience. I'd thought something small like an Arduino Nano clone or a RPi Pico, USB cable, a ping sensor, a couple PBs, a piezo-buzzer, a couple LEDs with resistors pre soldered, and a SSD1306. Still under consideration, need to find a suitable library location.