Member Meeting Minutes for January 16, 2013

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees:
  • Scott^2
  • Scott
  • Sarita
  • Matt B
  • Jay Pee
  • Gabe
  • Bob

• Called to order at:

7:31

Visitors

• Bryant
• Christopher

New Members

• None (Frowny Face)

External Collaborations

• Thu, Jan 17th - Carnegie Museum of Art Culture Club making event. 5:30 - 9pm
  • http://web.cmoa.org/ITMW/maker-registration.html

Recent Events

• Wed Jan 2: Member Meeting
• Thu Jan 3: Pittsburgh Lockpick Club plus Steel City Hackers
• Fri Jan 4: Social Entrepreneurship
• Tue Jan 8: Open Source Fabrication
• Fri Jan 11: Intro to High Performance Computing with GPUs
• Mon Jan 14: UAV Working Group

Upcoming Events

• Fri Jan 18: Magnetic Levitation
• Fri Jan 25: FiniSH IT Friday
• Fri Feb 1: DIY Snow Machines (Gabe)
• Thu Feb 7: Pittsburgh Geek Night
• Fri Feb 8: Lego and Arduino Projects (Matt B)
• Fri Feb 15: Intro to resistors, capacitors, component labeling (JayPee & Sarita)
• Sat Feb 16: Techshop Maker's Meetup
• Sat Feb 16: Wreckless Arcade Tournament
• Sun Feb 17: Q1 Shop Cleanup (Electronics Area)
• Fri Feb 22: FiniSH IT Friday
• Sat Feb 23: CLASS: Design your own circuit boards (Matt B)

• Potential Friday Night talks/events:
  • Intro to resistors, capacitors, component labeling
  • Hard drive rescue
  • Costuming
  • Flat panel speakers
  • Shop Show-and-Tell (Quarterly) (mid March)
  • Intro to Ham Radio/Test Prep (early March)

Unscheduled Classes

• Public welding class
• Ham radio test (late March/April)
• CNC milling
• Q1 Learn to Solder (March)

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

New Business

• Make Magazine subscription
• Carnegie Library "Learn to Solder" classes proposal for summertime

Meeting Adjourned 8:07