Member Meeting Minutes for June 4, 2014
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- Attendees:
- Ethan
- Dan
- Doug
- Jim
- Adam
- Gene
- Eli
- Chad
- Anthony
- Greg
- Bob
- Called to order at:
- 7:35pm
New Members
Recent Events
- Thursday May 22: Talk on Window Lights Project
- Postponed
- Thursday May 29: Talk on Power Wheels
- Chad/Eli - No one really showed up
- Saturday May 31: Shop cleanup
- Went well. Thanks for helping out!
Upcoming Events
- Friday June 13th: Artemis Night
- 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 by next meeting...
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)
- Possibly at the White House
- Talked to PPPRS Jim today, No word Yet.
- 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
- Progress
- Gabe started... has some things done. Still have to mount the inclosure and such.
- Gabe 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.
- We have the parts!
- Gabe and Chad to work on RFID control for tool area.
- Progress
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
- Now running Minecraft server, in test mode for now
- Need to work out how to remote into server for admin
- Mugs - Gabe is the point of contact
- $15 each, $20 for mug personalized with text at bottom
- 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!)
- Talking to other People/Hackerspaces to go in on a group buy. Turns out other spaces aren't interested in a group buy.
- Chad expects buy to be ~May
- Good news everyone! I have talked to Weike Get a laser for $5000 plus shipping.
- OK We need to re-vote on this... it's gonna be a little more.
- Gene motioned for vote to approve $5800.
- It was a verbal vote. In the opinion of the president, the vote was in favor to approve spending for the laser cutter.
- Chad created opt-in contact list on Google docs
- contact info for members to contact each other
- Contact a board member for access!
- Meeting time to 7:30pm
- Greg
- Gene seconds...
- A committee has been formed to review the bylaws
- Changes have been made and will be presented at the next meeting.
- Greg is the point of contact
- Thanks to all members that have been reviewing the constitution and providing input
- 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
- Will sell
- Proposed constitution amendments . This will be sent out in email (We promise after the meeting). This will be voted upon at the next scheduled meeting. Contact Greg if you have any interest.
- 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!
New Business
- Pittsburgh Mini-MakerFaire will not be held by the Children's Museum
- Maker Faire went to a for profit organization and the Children's Museum does not want to be involved
- The question is if there is interest in holding the event
- The consensus will be to contact the Science Center and determine level of interest
- Greg proposed add electronically controlled lock.
Move to Adjourn
- Eli motioned to adjourn
- Gene seconded
- Adjourned at 8:39pm