Member Meeting Minutes for February 21, 2017

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees

Called to Order

• Called to order at:

Previous Events/Classes

• Feb 18: Arduino Programming 101
• Feb 10: Flight Club

Potential Events/Talks/Classes

• Scheduled
  • Feb 24: Hacking food and drink, Scott2
  • March 19: Intro to Welding, Akron Makerspace
  • March 25: Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
  • March 25: MetaMesh: Ethernet cable class / Talk
  • March 25: Raspberry Pi VPN

• Talks
  • Adam PittMesh
  • John Lewis- PittMesh DNS/Server talk
  • Andrew - Gem making Talk

• Classes

• • • Simon Heath
  • John Balacko
    • Neopixels class
  • Chad
    • Edge lit acrylic

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels

• Power Wheels
  • There is now a Chicago Maker Faire PPPRS race in 2017
    • April 22

• 3-D Printers
  • Boxzy
  • Mendlemax
  • Makegear
    • Needs TLC

• Lathe
  • DROs partially installed
  • Moved

• Fabrication Station
  • We have an embroidery machine!
    • Bought Software, Good to go!
    • Training can start immediately!
    • Cathy to donate a computer for station.

• Automatic dues payment system
  • Is anyone starting this?
  • Foo offered to help.

• Vending Machine
  • Coin Hopper and Accepter here
    • Need to wire into arduino.
  • Chad has code if anyone wants to help with it.

• Server

• Twitter Sign

• Vaccum Forming Table

• Arcade
  • Needs games checked and removed if they don't work.

• John Balacko
  • HackPGH sign idea. 9 foot long. Fits in between the two strips of glass blocks above garage door
  • John will 3d print a prototype to show us

Old Business

• Safety Report
  • Need power to Fabrication Station still.
  • Need a few New Fire Extinguishers
    • Walmart or Amazon
      • CO2 for laser cutter, The rest ABC.
  • Bathroom door is now swinging outward

• Need to test alarms, first members meeting of month
  • This needs done after next meeting!

• Flammable material cabinet
  • Gabe's looking for one.
  • Feel free for other people to look.

• Shop rearrangement
  • Shop area will be dusty part of shop
  • Welding curtain

• Dust filtration system for HackPGH
  • John Wetzel and Andrew Campbell
  • Put it into one of the glass block windows above garage door
    • Green light. Proceed as requested

• New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups - Make it easy for everyone (inclusion)
  • Motion passed, New board will work on it.

• Checklist for various tools to keep track of their condition
  • Will setup soon.
  • Need to buy small clipboards.

• Tardis to Tekko Con?
  • John Wetzel is looking into it

New Business

• ToonSeum would like is to bring the TARDIS to their fundraiser on April 22nd.
  • Vote on this.

• April 4th: FIELD TRIP: Uptown Lofts Visit HackPGH
  • Vote on this.

Move to Adjourn

• Adjourned at:

Meeting notes by Geno