Lab Furnishings

Overview

HeatSync Labs's headquarters is located in downtown Mesa, which looks overly Leave-it-to-Beaver. HeatSync Labs is full of futurists who fantasize about living on the Enterprise, so our look and feel inside the lab will be different. Most hackerspaces, unfortunately, end up with a "garage sale" look in contrast with the modern Ikea look that most co-working spaces have, including the one we've hosted events in for over a year. We should aim for a uniform base of wall colors/layout and basic furniture and leave whatever items rest on it in aesthetic freedom.

Our colors are a base of graphite gray and cloud gray with industrial orange and sunshine yellow for complementary colors. Walls should be combinations of the grays, with the possibility of some orange accenting. Furniture can be any combination of the aforementioned colors, and black. We have a hardwood floor and wood furnishings of the same beech wood color. Wooden furnishings should ideally be somewhat close to this. No mahogany nonsense. We're not a lawyer's office. Metallic elements will likely be shown off in machinery, so having shiny metal in furniture is great, but non-grey metals (brass, etc) should be avoided.

Proposed furniture

Commons tables (4 total)

Ikea Vika Byske table top (beech wood) + Vika Lilleby Trestle legs (black) (rated to 110 lbs, sturdier than single legs).

NOTE: Ikea Tempe is fresh out of the Byske table tops, but the next size down is only two inches shorter, so its not a bad second choice.

Cost: $440

Private work desk (3 total)

Galant combination desk with drawer (beech wood). Chair not included.

Cost: $585

Commons Chairs(6 total)

For hackers spending several hours hacking on code: RICKARD swivel chair (gray/black) or SNILLE (black)

Cost: $108

Event chairs (18 total)

Flash Furniture DAD-YCD-50-GG. These can be stored on a Flash Folding Chair Dolly

NOTE: Stock Ikea casters are designed for soft Swedish floors and not hard Arizona dead tree floors. Use PARAGRAF casters to prevent floor damage and ensure fast chair racing.

NOTE: The casters built into RICKARD chairs work well on hard surfaces as-is, so if we choose those, we won't need to buy different casters. Also, the SNILLE chairs aren't ideal for butts larger than David's, maybe. Update: SNILLE chairs are used at Cartel Coffee Lab. They're the red plastic ones.

Cost: $442

HSL Library Bookshelf (1 total)

BESTÅ shelf unit (beech wood) (stronger construction than the Billy shelves everyone has)

Cost: $150

Alternate Options: Big Lots bookcase (black, 2 total)

Cost: $60

Obligatory Sofa (1 total)

Target Orange Sofa or Julia T's sofa that she wants to get rid of. If the outer cover is standardized it might be possible to find an orange or black one.

Alternate Option: Julia.T's friend has a soda she can give us ($0)

Cost: $180

Vendors

• http://www.marketswest.com/store/pc/Folding-Tables-Chairs-c52.htm
• http://www.abiaz.com/#/Pre_Owned_Seating-8-161.html
• http://swofficefurniture.com/index.php?pr=Furniture
• http://www.cort.com/furniture-clearance
• http://www.buyusedcubes.com/used.htm
• http://www.azoffice.com/uf_usedchairs.html
• http://www.cornerofficeaz.com/preownedproducts.html
• http://www.ikea.com/us/en/
• https://webapp3.asu.edu/spms/public.aspx

Total Cost

$1905

Optional Goodies

Antique phone booth

Made of solid, sturdy Oak wood. Found on eBay.

Cost: $1100

PS BRUSE Coffee Table

IKEA PS BRUSE Coffee table. A fancier table that would substitute a $10 black LACK table and match the beech wood main tables.

Cost: $149

Spare Projector

Epson EX7200 Projector

Cost: $749.99

Sponsors

HeatSync Labs is a 501c3 organization with a history of doing things that not only benefit Mesa and Arizona, but the world from Japan to Kenya as well. Many companies like that about us because it gives them a tax break and makes them look cool. We should approach companies to give us things. Here's a list of companies to contact. For privacy reasons, contacts are not listed on this page:

• Home Depot - Paint, white-board-transforming-magic-paint, metallic spray paint, metallic tape, any tools they'd be willing to part with. Located at Baseline/Rural.
• IKEA - BYSKE tables, private desks, cushioned chairs, coffee presses. Located on Warner/I-10.
• Thinkgeek.com - Binary clock, books, anything cool they'd be willing to donate.
  • ThinkGeek has a program in place to donate imperfect goods to hackerspaces. I applied for it on behalf of HSL. ~ huertanix
• Target - Orange couch, coffee table, all-in-one printer, projector.
• Hermann Miller - 3 Aeron chairs for private desks would be epic. A set of 6 high-end chairs would also be great to substitute the "hardcore hackers" cushioned chairs with too.
• Tropo - Try anything not donated elsewhere; Might have to put Tropo stickers on it. huertanix has contact info for Tropo co-founder Johnny Diggz, a pretty cool dude.
• K-Zell - giant metal slate that could be mounted on a wall to become a whiteboard.
• OfficeMax - giant whiteboards (backup plan in case the metal one doesn't work), dry ease markers, all-in-one printer, projector. Located on Broadway/Rural.
• Sparkfun.com - Cash donations, gift certs, or maybe some Lilypad TechStyles Kits so that our wearable computing workshops are less ghetto.
  • Contacted, waiting to hear back. ~ huertanix
• Michael's - Post frames for orange propaganda posters.