[Robotgroup] Equipment acquisition for homebrewers

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 29 June 2008, brooksdesign wrote:
>   You have found that secret club. Actualy the technique we use is
> the stuff comes in and then we decide what to build with it.

Yes, but I've been sitting around for years here and stuff doesn't seem 
to be coming in, so I suspect there's something more to the secret.

> Personaly I almost never buy anything, just always be on the lookout

Then how do you get it if you don't buy it? There's always the option of 
dumpster diving, but I'm pretty sure most people aren't dumpster 
diving. But what else? Is there a give-away database for Austin that I 
don't know about? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving
> Dumpster diving is the practice of sifting through commercial or
> residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their
> owners, but which may be useful to the Dumpster diver. The practice
> of Dumpster diving is also known variously as urban foraging,
> binning, alley surfing, Curbing, D-mart, Dumpstering, garbaging,
> garbage picking, garbage gleaning, skip-raiding, skip diving,
> skipping, skip-weaseling, tatting, skally-wagging or trashing.
---

> space and tolerant neighbors/spouse.

And if you can combine them you get a tolerant neighbor-spouse, thereby 
adverting the not-enough-space-in-house issue all together, right? 
Sadly, I don't think she'd go for that one.

- Bryan
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