Or omitted entirely 
https://discourse.southlondonmakerspace.org/t/31592
Works for posts too but I haven’t found a quick way of grabbing them short of the network tab when editing
A bit of an aside, but take a look at what this makerspace does.
They call their induction required tools “red equipment”, have a safety sheet which I assume gets printed next to the tool, as well as the relevant safety symbols.
The tool page links to safety information, training material, and an induction quiz. I like a lot of what I see going on here.
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My 2 cents here. There are two bits of info to codify, induction requirement and lone-working requirement. Color can represent induction, and the tag shape can indicate lone-working status? square for safe-to-lone-work, triangle if unsafe? Triangle because it’s an implicit warning.
Regardless of shape/color, I think the text needs to be there, and I think the icons to confirm the message are definitely helpful.
@directors can someone please buy “slms.to” and point the A record at 213.219.36.63
I’ve setup Apache with this:
RewriteEngine On
# Numeric IDs → Discourse topic
RewriteRule ^/(\d+)$ https://discourse.southlondonmakerspace.org/t/$1 [R=301,L]
# Everything else → main site
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://southlondonmakerspace.org/$1 [R=301,L]
Which will have the effect of redirecting slms.to/20985 to this post for example, no requirement for a link shortner.
If you already have an apache server doing not much like the main SLMS website you could add this there, and it would give us a way to get this QR code stuff off the ground again.
If you want to test it out, edit your computers hosts file with:
213.219.36.63 slms.to and try it out: http://slms.to/20985 or http://slms.to/49096
I’m strongly suggesting we ‘kill’ all the nice to haves and K.I.S.S. : Keep It Simple Stupid…
That is:
- Generic tool name: Laser cutter
- Specific tool name: Trotec Speedy 300
- QR code
- URL the QR code has
Anything else can be another thing, or superseded this another time but we’re absolutely bikeshedding this conversation now and it needs to move on.
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@Kyle do you have access to Domain registration + DNS or can you give me more access to systems to do this?
slms.to will vastly simplify the QR codes and leave more bits for error correction, but we could do this with the current URL too in order to remove a link in the chain of things that can fail/need to be maintained. E.g:
https://southlondonmakerspace.org/qr/t/01234567
qrhere can be dedicated to all QR codes
t can be the redirect for topics
0123456… For topic ID.
This URL is ~50 characters, plenty short for QR.
This scheme is also expandable. New subdirs can be added with compact encoding schemes to handle other systems, e.g. auto-generated project tags with a QR code that you can scan to message the owner, to make it easier to manage snug camping. E.g:
https://southlondonmakerspace.org/qr/s/XXXXXXX
If we assume a QR code can cope with 100 chars and remain very robust, this system should work with ~55 characters for a given subscheme.
Up to you - the short redirect seems to be blocking this right now.
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Most of Textiles machines all have QR codes now. Printed with the label maker. The format is
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I ended up doing this when we discussed it in April in 2022. The script is available here and its on the mac in the space. I did quite a few around the space, others including @mbg have added them to tools like the tablesaw, the Bambu printers, the vinyl cutter, etc.
Here’s an example
I have pushed an htaccess rule to the main site to allow e.g. https://southlondonmakerspace.org/qr/t/20985
Nice suggestion @FunkyGroover !
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