Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end

Re:Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end by dekhn on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:45AM (#22375392)

I understand your feelings about taking things that are waste for a corporation (R&D is a very wasteful process) and giving them to local schools.

As a contrast, the team I was on (Making and Science) purchased an enormous number of safety glasses, which we gave away at Maker Faire. We often gave whole boxes to teachers who asked (like, 144 glasses). You see them all over the place, and the teachers were always thrilled to get them.

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Re:Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end by elkos on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:13PM (#22384747)

We still have a few of these Google branded safety glasses in our local hackerspace after going to World Maker Faire in 2015.

Last time I've put them on was testing our open-hardware pico-satellite deployer.

Thanks for saving my eyes.

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Re:Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end by TaylorAlexander on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:37PM (#22377392)

I have a pair!

But throwing away valuable stuff is still waste. If you can help someone a great deal for next to nothing, that’s worth doing. Forgoing that help and then making donations elsewhere is nice I guess, but it’s still wasteful.

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