convore.json/groups/alphaonelabs/100-a-month-budget-for-cool-things-for-projects-at-the-lab/messages.json

[{"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1304736350.3657701, "message": "Every month, we'll vote on things to get for the lab for under $100, these can either be for your project that you are working on at the lab, a tool, supply or kit for the lab or pretty much anything lab related. The purpose of this is to stimulate development on projects since sometimes something simple as a $2 battery holder can delay progress and we'd like to keep the innovation flowing. We'll pick the top voted items that add up to $100 every 1st of the month, and then place the order.", "group_id": 868, "id": 948446}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1304736357.9215441, "message": "https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=7f2d1", "group_id": 868, "id": 948448}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1306634118.134166, "message": "please vote yes or no on everything, and check back for new stuff.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1215730}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1306634099.319802, "message": "http://www.alphaonelabs.com/cool-parts-fund/", "group_id": 868, "id": 1215728}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1306907426.5839331, "message": "need to know which kits, screwdrivers and opener kit.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1250003}, {"user_id": 30460, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1306960752.7818351, "message": "Many of these need explanations.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1258307}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308650945.74175, "message": "\u2022 Vac-U-Forming station or parts to build one? \u2022 Hot wire cutter for styrofoam,", "group_id": 868, "id": 1446983}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308651045.5432241, "message": "rope, plastics, etc? \u2022 Carpentry tools?", "group_id": 868, "id": 1446989}, {"user_id": 30460, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308683288.0720501, "message": "I'm intrigued by the idea of a vacuum former.  I checked out a youtube video.  What do you do with the molds?  Resin?  I've seen them used for Jello.  Make Magazine video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhajk_IDTUo", "group_id": 868, "id": 1451017}, {"user_id": 30460, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308683315.5470819, "message": "I'd like a website that catalogs different means of production.  I guess Make/Instructables is kinda like that.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1451023}, {"user_id": 30460, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308686006.6674261, "message": "I understood you, what I'm ignorant of is what you use the formed plastic for.  It was my guess that you use them as molds for some other (poured?) material.  But maybe you're saying that you use the plastic itself, like the molded plastic is your end goal?", "group_id": 868, "id": 1451481}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308685642.2055759, "message": "There are a lot of instructables for Vac-u-forming, by many names. What I mean is thin plastic, heated and sucked down onto a 3D Mold, to shape.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1451421}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308689476.060658, "message": "Potentially molds for more difficult compounds, lightweight enclosures, or even airfoils and propellers. Masks, whatever else anybody would want to make.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1452063}, {"user_id": 3019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34100, "date_created": 1308709880.2971909, "message": "There is a lab-made vac-u-former on he shelf behind the door and there are frames that match up to the former to staple plastic on to on the shelves.  We have nichrome wire you can use to run some current through to make a foam cutter.  The format for the list should be, Item name, description, intended use, cost.  If you can please revise those, we'll know more accurately what to get for the June buy and get it.  The we can delete items off the list and get ready for the upcoming buy which will probably be mostly RedBull creation stuff.", "group_id": 868, "id": 1454274}]