Member Meeting Minutes for August 1, 2012

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees:
• Called to order at:

Recent Events

• Fri Jul 27 - Maker faire Detroit
  • PowPowPowerWheels had a great day with two first place finishes, third overall - special thanks to everyone who helped make this happen
  • Micro Mini Murder Bot, Glassblock GE-35 LED Project pong, thinking cap, bottle nose, button machine represented
  • Great time was had by all, everyone is strongly encouraged to come out next year
  • Shop did not have public event, Scott^2 was here, no non-members showed up
• Defcon
  • Raspberry piower strip got some good attention

Upcoming Events

• Fri Aug 3 - Surface mount soldering
• Fri Aug 10 - Steam Punk 101
• Fri Aug 17 - Rope Making
• Fri Aug 24 - 3D Movie Making
• Fri Aug 31 - "FLOAT", a talk by Ben Saks
• Sat Aug 25 - Val's Intro to Processing class
• Fri Sep 14th - 3pm visit to Google (Scott has details)
  • show off projects, impress Google
• Sat Aug 11 - Welding class for members

• Potential Friday Night talks/events:
  • Hard drive rescue
  • El wire talk - September
  • Costuming
  • Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)

Maker Faires!

• Maker Faire Chicago - August 3-5 power wheels focus, individual projects only
  • Very likely not going to make it...
• Maker Faire Pittsburgh September 22
  • Free to HackPittsburgh Members! (But really, why aren't you presenting/volunteering?!?!)
• World Maker Faire NYC - Sept 29-30

Unscheduled Classes

• Sat in August (maybe early early October): intro to electroluminescent wire
  • tentatively October 6th 1-5pm
• Solar powered mesh network (follow up to Sayan's talk)
• Motor Controller class - Anthony
• Soft Circuits II - Liz/Doug Oct/Nov
  • tentatively early Oct
• Public welding class

Project Updates

• PowPowPowerWheels
  • Post race "repairs" -- also, is there interest in having a PowPowPowerWheels mechanics class?
• LEAD Balloon
  • aiming for Post Detroit ~end of August Launch

Shop Updates

• We need another sort/clean-up day.
• Shop Garage Sale
  • Tentatively Sat Sep 8th
• Potentially have "bone-yard build day"
• There are currently bids on an oscilloscope and signal generator, see Scott for information

New Business

• 3D Printer
  • Jet will build one first, eta: Weekend of Aug 4
  • Shop build some time soon after
• Scott^2 to develop list of meta-resources
  • General resources and information for hacker spaces
• Bicycle rack

• Jet will make signs (fire extinguisher, first aid, etc.) and also move first aid to somewhere not stupid

Motion to adjourn: Scott adjourns