Member Meeting Minutes for July 25, 2012
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- Attendees: jet, Sarita, Ethan, Jeremy, Scott^2, Eli, Doug, Gabe
- Called to order at
New Members
- Daniel Orlowski (not present at previous meeting)
- Ethan/EJ/E Strauss
- FINALLY here...
Recent Events
- Fri Jul 13 - Luc's Homemade Radio talk
- Sat Jul 14th - getting started with electroluminescent wire - ticketing for both
- Fri Jul 20 - Finishit Friday * Detroit edition
Upcoming Events
- Fri Jul 27 - Gone for Maker Fair Detroit
- No official event, but shop is open as usually
- Fri Aug 3 - Surface mount soldering
- Fri Aug 10 - ???
- VoIP
- 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
- Potential Friday Night talks/events:
- Hard drive rescue
- El wire talk - September
- Costuming
- Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)
Maker Faires!
- Only 2days! until Detroit!
- need to figure out who coming and what they are bringing and figure out transport
- Maker Faire Chicago - August 3-5 power wheels focus, individual projects only
- Maker Faire Pittsburgh September 22
- World Maker Faire NYC - Sept 29-30
Unscheduled Classes
- Sat in August (maybe early early October): advanced electroluminescent wire
- tentatively October 6th
- Welding class for members prior to general public welding class
- Tentatively Aug 11th
- Solar powered mesh network (follow up to Sayan's talk)
- Motor Controller class - Anthony
- Soft Circuits II - Liz/Doug Oct/Nov
- tentatively early Oct
Project Updates
- Power Wheels
- need drivers and gadgets
- LEAD Balloon
- aiming for Post Detroit August Launch
Shop Updates
- Button Machine - We need to make buttons for Detroit!
New Business
- 3D Printer
- Jet will build one first, then shop will build in ~1 month
- Jeff to work on/maintain IRC channel for the shop
- Scott^2 to develop list of meta-resources
- Council election
- Jet will make signs (fire extinguisher, first aid, etc.) and also move first aid to somewhere not stupid
- Council election, Scott^2 running
- Scott is newest council member!
Motion to adjourn:
Doug, seconded by Sarita.