Member Meeting Minutes for June 18, 2014

Minutes by Agenda Topic

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Recent Events

• Friday June 13th: Artemis Night

Upcoming Events

• Friday 20th: Chainmail (Andrew)
• Thursday June 26th: Sketch-Up
• Thursday July 10th: High Security Locks

Upcoming Classes

• Arduino without Arduino IDE
  • Greg
  • 28th of June 1-4pm
• Build your own theremin class
  • Geno
  • July 12th: 10a-3pm

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 (possibly do Galileo on this Thursday)
• (Recurring) Shop Show-and-Tell (Quarterly)
  • Next scheduled in sometime in May
• (Recurring) Sketchup
  • First meeting is occurring tomorrow... be there!
• Finite State Machines
  • Contact Anthony/Greg
• Build your own h-bridge
• Object Oriented Software development
  • Contact Greg/Joey
• Reverse engineering
  • The ATM
  • The G35 Light protocol
• OpenCV/Computer Vision
  • Contact Anthony
• High security locks
• 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.
  • Still pending..............

Learning Tracks

• Arduino Track:
  • Learn to Solder (done)
  • Intro Programming (done)
  • Diode Shield (Done)
  • Sensors, sensors, sensors!
    • Postponed. TBD.
    • Sonar, IR range Accelerometer
  • Analog circuits (OpAmps)
    • May TBD
    • Try to get a date soon.
  • Intro to Motor Control
  • Advanced Motor Control
• GPS
  • Intro to GPS, NMEA, Parsing, Lat/Long, Display in Processing
  • Syllabus?

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
  • The software group is working on this on the first and third Monday nights of every month... Come out
  • Now uses a hardware timer

• High altitude balloon
  • Combined meeting with UAV club
  • The second monday of every month is a ballon project!
  • We are looking for experiments!! <Send Email to list>

• Power wheels
  • Delorian!!! Going to start from a clean sheet
  • We meet on some Tuesdays, its a on a need to know basis

• • Found a controller for the Jeep (needs diode for controller protection)
  • Software group will start working on Telemetry data...
    • Contact Greg/Gary

• CNC Router
  • Eli got a computer (needs tested).
  • We need to finish assembling.
  • Need to make an enclosure.
  • It has been taken down, need to built a table and storage for components

• Setup e-stop for tools
  • Gabe and Chad to work on RFID control for tool area.
  • Progress
    • Gabe started... has some things done. Still have to mount the inclosure and such.
  • Gabe got another reader. Needed to use the one to this for the door.

Shop Updates

• 3D Printer
  • Bed has been aligned
  • Workstation Added for 3-D Printer
    • It's Re-Setup!
  • Re-occurring SketchUp/3d printer class.
    • TRAINING!!! Talk to Chad or Eli!
  • We 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
  • Adam's Server Broke
  • Need to work out how to remote into server for admin

• Mugs
  • $15 each
  • In stock in the shop! BUY ONE

Shop Project Ideas

• DrawBot
• Window web interface
• Refrigerator to TARDIS.
  • Chad to buy paint.

Old Business

• Laser Cutter (AKA Frickin Lasers!)
  • Waiting on treasurer. They want us to do a Wire Transfer.

• Chad created opt-in contact list on Google docs
  • contact info for members to contact each other
  • Contact a board member for access!

• Carnegie Library would like to know if we could give a talk about HackPGH and give a demonstration
  • We will need projects and people to present
  • Decided to request the date of 8/23
    • Create a form for people to signup for an email when interested in more information about joining

• Garage Sale June 21st!
  • Will sell
    • Metal punch (Junior)
    • DVD duplicator (On Craigslist)
    • EVERYTHING WE DON"T NEED!
    • 10a-2pm!
    • Bring your own stuff to sell, but don't leave it if it doesn't sell

• Doug asked if there was interesting in developing a ticks clock. He will develop a proposal and send it around.

• Eli mentioned that 4MOMs wants to do a hardware based hack-a-thon. Not a lot of details at this point. Eli will get more info.

• Starting next month, the Tesla club will me 2nd and 4th Wednesday. Starting at 7:30pm!

• Pittsburgh Mini-MakerFaire will not be held by the Children's Museum This Year
  • In talks with tech shop to have it hosted this year (Hopefully Science Center).

• ??? Greg proposed add electronically controlled lock. ???

New Business

• A committee has been formed to review the bylaws
  • Thanks to all members that have been reviewing the constitution and providing input
    • Time to Vote!!!