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Electronics room organization

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wolf

I spent some time last night working on organizing the massive heap of stuff on the tables in the electronics room. It still looks like a RadioShack collided with a Digi-Key catalog in my grandpa’s basement, but there is at least now a little more structure to the chaos.

- On the left-hand table are various bins organized by broad (and occasionally nebulous) categories

- On the right-hand table are bins containing arbitrary collections of stuff (usually things that were already in a bin, or were near each other, but are probably otherwise unrelated)

The idea is that you can now take a bin from the right, bring it over to the left, and distribute its contents as appropriate. (There’s also a spot which has a pile of all the empty bins I could find, for use when creating new categories.) There’s also quite a lot of stuff that should be moved elsewhere in the space, put on the hack shelves, or simply discarded. Please pitch in and have a go at it! My theory on organizing is that if you shuffle things around enough, they’ll eventually coalesce into something manageable.

[https://discuss.noisebridge.info/uploads/default/6a48d9ca6430dc13ec17b3e4e2e2f70cac7259d1 ILeft side: an assortment of plastic bins laid out along the length of the table.4160×3120 3.04 MB ] [https://discuss.noisebridge.info/uploads/default/f4a145a9f007eb4db130d51feccacdd6244cd32c Right side: a heap of plastic bins piled several high, with the table barely visible beneath them.4160×3120 2.87 MB ]

(Thanks to @woz for suggesting I post this.)