[Robotgroup] Equipment acquisition for homebrewers

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 29 June 2008, vkonradi wrote:
> Dumpster diving?  Yes, definitely.  Be bold.  If anyone asks, you are
> looking for your laboratory prototype that accidentally got canned. 
> Radioactive laboratory prototype actually.  Anyone want to help dig
> through?

I've been poking my nose behind some computer repair shops (okay, really 
only one) and seem to be noticing this interesting pattern of locked 
dumpsters. So I'm not sure how this is supposed to work without 
breaking locks and violating laws and such. How does the waste service 
do it, then? Surely they don't waste time fumbling for keys ... waste 
is the problem they are supposedly 'solving' in the first place.

> Large trash pickup day is also good for broken stuff with motors.

There's supposedly a certain day in Austin where everyone throws out 
really awesome stuff, do you know when this is? Google isn't telling me 
much.

> Anyone been to Austin Metals Processing lately?  How friendly 
> are they these days to scroungers who want to disassemble choice bits
> from the machinery they flatten for scrap?

I have also considered junkyards, but it seems we only have automobile 
junkyards around these areas, instead of general scrap-and-junk piles.

- Bryan
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