[Hplusroadmap] Equipment acquisition for homebrewers

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 29 June 2008, Kevin Koym wrote:
> when i lived in Palo Alto, there were "swap meets" where some parking

I think we have some Palo Alto area guys on this mailing list. :-)

> lot (quite seriously, just in the middle of an open parking lot)
> people would just bring their junk out... talk about it a little bit,
> and you could buy stuff from each other.  it was like a flea market-
> but only for high end stuff...  (e.g. an oscilliscope, etc). I have
> never found this in Austin, but I think that there is enough hardware

Someone on one of the mailing lists, it was either robotgroup or 
austinmetalworkingetc, reminded me of http://freecycle.org/ and so 
that's at least somewhat close to what we're looking for. An actual 
event would be nice where it was quality hardware only, even if it was 
just 'junk' (there's a difference between junk and completely fried and 
pulvarized junk). Also, apparently hamfests are similar in nature to 
these as well. Just needs some more organization, since it's all too 
transient to keep track of. Maybe host a junkcamp in a junkyard?

> around in this town that something like this could easily happen.
>  look around to see if someone has started one- and if not, you might
> consider organizing one (somewhere north of UT seems like it would
> make a lot of sense).

Why north of it? You mean North Austin?

- Bryan
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