Member Meeting Minutes for April 5, 2017

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees
  • Chad
  • Geno
  • Dave Coakley
  • Bob Berger
  • James Hyde
  • Adam Casto
  • Scott2
  • Alexandra Krongel

Called to Order

• Called to Order At: 7:34pm

New/Potential Members

• Alexandra Krongel

Previous Events/Classes

• Arduino: Intro to Sensors April 1, 10am-2pm
• Action Housing Visit - April 4, 6:30p - 8:00p
• Grindhouse film in the shop - Living Superhumans
  • Went well!
• Shop Clean - This is what happened... http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/150267462835/space-population-on-cleaning-day

Learning Tracks / Classes

• Motor Control
  • Need to schedule
• Oscilloscope Class (First run is free, no material costs)
  • Will be part of Learning Tracks in the future
  • Scheduled May 5 @7:30pm

Potential Events/Talks/Classes

• April 21: Hacking Food and Drink part 2 @ 7:30pm- 9pm
  • History of Shrub and home made alcohol

• Needs to be rescheduled
  • 8 Year Party
  • Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
  • MetaMesh: Ethernet cable class / Talk

• Talks
  • John Lewis- PittMesh DNS/Server talk

• Classes
  • Chad
    • Edge lit acrylic

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels

• Power Wheels

• Laser Cutter
  • New Fire Extinguisher Installed

• 3-D Printers
  • Boxzy
    • We have a PiPo
      • Touch Screen Computer
  • Mendlemax
  • Makegear
    • Being repaired

• Metal Shop
  • Welding curtains ordered
  • Drill Press Down

• Wood Shop
  • Dust Collection System
  • Flammable material cabinet
  • Need table saw
    • Everyone ask around. Maybe we can get a donation.

• Electronics Workstation
  • It looks awesome! Thanks Adam

• Fabrication Station
  • Need dedicated power to Fabrication Station.

• • Vinyl Cutter
    • Back up and running!

• Automatic dues payment system
  • • Adam Casto will take over
    • Adam has began making new website dev.hackpittsburgh.org
    • Bought WooCommerce

• Vending Machine
  • Coin Hopper and Accepter is working (Jacques)
    • Need to wire into arduino.
    • It's on Trello!

• Server

• Misc
  • Attach power strip into table
    • On pause

• Safety Report
  • Need to test alarms!
  • We are now requiring anyone who walks into HackPGH who is not a member, sign the release form!
  • Anonymous complaints form online for members to report issues.
    • http://bit.ly/HackPGH_Issues

• Loft above garage door
  • Hold off for now.

Old Business

• New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups - Make it easy for everyone (inclusion)
  • Geno setup mailing list
    • Its in beta testing

• Checklist for various tools to keep track of their condition
  • Will setup soon.
  • Clipboards are here. Progress is being made.

• Closing shop for few hours for creating Pittsburgh cards against humanity aka Cards for Jagoffs
  • 6 people vote in favor, none abstained or against

• Redbull aircraft challenge
  • August 4-6
    • Lets get team together
    • Need team captain

New Business

• Treasurer's report
  • • Purchased Quicken Books

• We have a new full size fridge!
  • Thank you Barry and Sarah Rabkin!

• Update personal info.
  • We are now requiring a Name, Email and a optional phone number to bin.
  • Emergency Contact info
  • Bins will be removed if this doesn't happen within 30 days.

• When we buy a tool
  • We have to have it setup and start training within 2 weeks.
  • We have to teach classes on it to help pay for the tool.

• Shop makes a lot of revenue from classes...
  • We want to highly encourage members to teach classes.

• Steve Morrison will loan the shop a jointer and planer
  • We need to pick it up

Project RollCall

• Tesla Spirit Radio
  • Geno
• Bob Berger
  • Drawbot
• Chad
  • Maker Faire

New Member Induction

• Drew Davis
  • All members present at meeting (4) and all board members approve

Move to Adjourn

• Bob motions
  • Adam seconds
    • Adjourned at: 7:53pm

Meeting notes by Geno