Member Meeting Minutes for Febuary 5, 2014
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- Attendees:
- Chad
- Geno
- Anthony
- Eli
- Jim
- Gene
- Paul
- Called to order at:
- 8:00pm
New Members
Recent Events
- Thursday Jan 16: Rube Goldberg Challenge
- Great success!
- Thursday Jan 23: Intro to Sketchup
- No one showed, will reschedule
- Saturday Jan 25: Members only-3D printer certification
- Jim and Gene got certified
- Thursday Jan 30: Tesla Club pilot
- Great success!
Upcoming Events
- Friday Feb 7: Digital games
- Thursday Feb 13: No Public event - V Day
- Thursday Feb 20: Digital Grandfather Clock (Luc)
- Saturday Feb 22: Diode Shield
- Thursday Feb 27: Residential Solar
Potential Thursday Night talks/events
- (Recurring) game night second Friday every month, switch between digital(video games) and analog(board games)
- No Thursday event preceding day
- (Recurring) Shop Show-and-Tell (Quarterly)
- (Recurring) Sketchup
- Finite State Machines
- Build your own h-bridge
- Object oriented software development
- Reverse engineering
- Stepper motor hack challenge
- Anyone?
Unscheduled Classes
- Welding class for members
- We need to talk to Gabe for scheduling.
- Waiting on Gabe. Can handle 7-8 students. A few bucks for class materials and pizza.
- Ham radio test (Feb)
- Gene
Learning Tracks
- Arduino Track:
- Learn to Solder (done)
- Intro Programming (done)
- Diode Shield (Feb 22nd)
- Sensors, sensors, sensors!
- Analog circuits (OpAmps)
- Intro to Motor Control
- Advanced Motor Control
Shop Projects
- Window Lights project - lights in the windows!
- Gene is working on syncing the prototyping board with the outside display
- Need to add switch to toggle between board and lights
- Power wheels
- 006 ——> Delorian!
- Need to start ASAP
- Jeep needs controller installed (needs diode for controller protection)
- Not at MakerFaire but maybe PGH Vintage Grand Prix
- Possibly at the White House
- 006 ——> Delorian!
- CNC Router
- Need to make an enclosure for the router.
- Need a computer with a parallel port, Pentium 3 or earlier.
- Chad has another lead on a machine.
- Anyone have access to a old computer?
- Setup e-stop for tools
- Gabe has parts, Chad will pick a day to set this up.
- Gable will get another reader. Needed to use the one to this for the door.
- Started working on it. Looking for a good enclosure for parts.
- Gabe and Chad to work on RFID control for tool area.
- Geno is making signal generator for shop. Successfully generated a sinusoidal signal.
- Is incorporating new output filter and touch screen
- Eli will implement some "random stuff" dispositioning systems... eventually
Shop Updates
- WiiMote Whiteboard
- See Greg or Chad to show you how to hook it up!
- 3D Printer
- Bed has been aligned
- Workstation Added for 3-D Printer
- Soon we will be doing training on the 3-D Printer.
- TRAINING!!! Talk to Chad, Anthony or Eli!
- Now have Black, Gold and White Filament.
- Pay System
- We will be using a Gram Scale for now. (Honor System)
- Pricing @ 5 cents a gram!.
- Server Rack / Network
- Now running Minecraft server, in test mode for now
- Security cameras.
- They work!
- Need to ship old system back
- Got address from mike wally.
- Mugs - Gabe is the point of contact
- $15 each, $20 for mug personalized with text at bottom
- In stock in the shop! BUY ONE
- Misc Unused Tools In Shop
- Gabe selling Punch tool and other misc.
- Other Options
- Garage sale in... (Wait till the weather breaks).
- When we do… Choose a date. Need to get advanced word out... (Wait till the weather breaks).
- Donate it to other places (As it was bestowed to us, we bestow it onto you).
- Craigslist
- Garage sale in... (Wait till the weather breaks).
- Items:
- Metal punch (Junior)
- DVD duplicator (On Craigslist)
New Shop Projects
- DrawBot
- Window web interface
- Fix twitter sign
- Software Round table working on this! (Anthony)
Old Business
- Mini-MakerFaire Planning
- Chad to take over.
- Still working on a date.
- They are stalling…
- Laser Cutter (AKA Frickin Lasers!)
- Talking to other People/Hackerspaces to go in on a group buy.
- Chad expects buy to be ~April
- Gene suggests participating at FIRST event at CalU, need to register by ~first week of march for volunteers
- Chad will create opt-in contact list on Google docs
- contact info for members to contact each other
- Scott^2 wants to get HackPittsburgh presence in "new economy working group"
- Scheduled shop cleanup for Feb 1rst
- Starting an "advisory board" to take input from members who want to have a more active role in shop direction
- Council will review
- Need to talk about potential move to Meyers building, meeting to follow this one (Jan 15th)
- Dale says he has grant writer available that could help HackPGH for community development etc.
- Some of our education aspects could help Dale with attaining Grants
- Could consider paid position, e.g., "general manager"
- Will meet Sunday at 1:00pm to put together presentation to give to Dale
New Business
Move to Adjourn:
- Anthony, Gene seconds