[sudo-discuss] my transmitter design on the cover of a book

Jake jake at spaz.org
Fri Nov 7 13:57:30 PST 2014


yes i'll carry it with me for a few days in my bag, it's pretty neat.

On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Ben Burke wrote:

> Do you have a copy of the book that you can bring to omni for reading purposes?
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>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
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>> look at the cover of this book (you can click on the image)
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>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people
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>> the text in the back cover says:
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>> Jake designed this transmitter with the help of wizened elders, to
>> provide a reliable and repairable communications device for noncapitalist
>> communities around the world.  At that time, cheap and effective
>> transmitters from China were not yet available on eBay, found by
>> searching for ST-15B in "consumer electronics".
>>
>> you'll notice that there are pictures of Mandela and Ghandi on there.  The circuitboards were fabbed eight at a time, so we put a transparency over the whole thing with EIGHT different pairs of dead revolutionaries:
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>> Mandela and Ghandi
>> Nina Simone and Rosa Parks
>> Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
>> Rachel Corrie and Judi Bari
>> Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra
>> Emma Goldman and Mother Jones
>> Ernesto Zapata and Ricardo Flores Magon
>> Annie Oakley and Lyudmila Pavlichenko
>>
>> you might notice a pattern of dichotomy in rhetoric vs. direct action, that was accidental.
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