Member Meeting Minutes for February 20, 2013
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- Attendees:
- Doug
- Scott'
- Scott^2
- Forest
- Jaypee
- Jeremy
- Sarita
- Dan
- Anthony
- Gene Kern
- Shane VanNest
- Called to order at:
7:30pm
New Members
- Gene Kern
- Retired software engineer
- TP
- Shane VanNest
- Artist, sculptor
- Interested in Synthesizers
Recent Events
- Thu Feb 7: Pittsburgh Geek Night
- Thu Feb 7: Lockpick Club / Steel City Hackers
- Groups may become combined
- Fri Feb 8: Lego and Arduino Projects (Matt B)
- Mon Feb 11: UAV Meetup
- "Flight capable" machines!
- Will likely increase to twice a month
- Scott' looking into Ardupilot group discount
- Tue Feb 12: Open Source Fab Meetup
- Fri Feb 15: Intro to resistors, capacitors, component labeling (JayPee & Sarita)
- Sat Feb 16: Techshop Maker's Meetup (Tentative)
- Sat Feb 16: Wreckless Arcade Tournament
- Sun Feb 17: Q1 Shop Cleanup (Electronics Area)
- KEEP IT CLEAN!!!
Upcoming Events
- Fri Feb 22: Finish It Friday
- Sat Feb 23: CLASS: Design your own circuit boards (Matt B)
- Fri Mar 1: Intro to Ham Radio
- Fri Mar 8: Hack Challenge
- Fri Mar 15: FIRST visit and after party
- Fri Mar 22: Finish It Friday
- Fri Mar 29: Shop Show-and-Tell
- Potential Friday Night talks/events:
- Hard drive rescue
- Costuming
- Flat panel speakers
- Shop Show-and-Tell (Quarterly) (mid March)
- Intro to Ham Radio/Test Prep (early March)
- Reverse engineering
- Stepper motor hack challenge
Unscheduled Classes
- Public welding class
- Ham radio test (late March/April)
- CNC milling
- Q1 Learn to Solder (March) - March
- Intro to processing
Project/Shop Updates
- Window Lights project - lights acquired, to be placed in window "soon"?
- Electronics Workstation - next steps?
- Need to organize electronics components
- 3D Printer
- Finishing build: Valve time frame - it's done when it's done
- Server Rack
- coming along, is powered, will be available for member's use
- Make Magazine subscription
- Security cameras
- DVR, Hard Drive, and Power Supply obtained
- FIRST Robotics Competition
New Business
Ben Peoples has been contacted about potential CMU affiliated Hackerspace Vote for current council to remain: Motion PASSES