Member Meeting Minutes for Mar 18, 2015

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees:
  • Chad
  • Eli
  • Gene
  • Geno
  • Jonathan
  • Wesley
  • James
  • EJ(hangouts)
  • Bob

• Called to order at: 7:40pm

New Members

• None

Recent Events

• March 6th - Movie Night!
  • Only 3 people came. We should advertise the movie we will watch beforehand.
• Artemis March 13th
  • About 5 people came. Very fun, some minor tech issues, otherwise awesome. We killed many ships.
• March 14th - LUG
  • 15 people came, had fun.
  • Presentation

Upcoming Events

• March 28th - Arduino Day
  • Applications were due March 15th. We are too late. We need to contact them and see if we can still get in on it.
  • We need to create online agenda
  • Geno will head the committee to do that and contact them
  • We should do something anyway
• April 9th - Steel City Infosec Meetup - Penetration Testing Drop Boxes
  • Jonathan is in charge of that
  • Can't use shop tools other than soldering iron for safety reasons
  • Need to bring their own tools
• April 11th - LUG

Potential Evening talks/events

• Arduino Day

• • It's on March 28th.
  • Assemble Collaboration
  • They can't do anything. They will send people our way if we are going to do something.

• Another Build Your Own Antennas Class
  • Adam wanted to teach this. Something other than wifi antennas

• BoXZY
  • Would be awesome if inventors of BoXZY came here and did a talk on it

Learning Tracks

• Arduino Track
  • Next up... Diyode.

• Jonathan wants to do talk on databases

• April 22nd, Earth day
  • Chad wants to launch balloons with sensors to detect smog
  • Red/Green lights that indicate presence of smog
  • Lets meet April 19th and discuss it, setup the balloons, meet at 1pm-4pm

• April 11th DirtyBall
  • Huge party at warehouse, creative artsy people, a little risque, crazy and fun
  • If HackPgh would do a cool project for them, we would get in for free, its expensive otherwise
  • Good advertising opportunity for us
  • We need to brainstorm ideas
  • Lets meet during Finish it Friday on March 27, 7pm

Shop Projects / Updates

• Power wheels
  • I choo choo choose you!
  • Barrel run May 1st!
  • Build contraption to take a Wiggle Whiskey barrel 2 miles from their HQ
  • We will build a power wheels sized train to push/pull the barrel

• CNC Router
  • Decided to purchase Shepoko.
  • EJ brought in a controller board
  • EJ will be working on it this Saturday March 21, 9am-11am, 1pm-3pm people welcome to join and help

• Laser Cutter
  • Purchasing new lens for finer etching. Chad needs to do that.
  • Slight issue. If you turn it on, and it doesn't datum. Turn it off, and move the gantry. Turn it on again.

• 3-D Printer
  • Workstation is up!
  • Its actually printing spare printer parts during the meeting! Wow! Look at it go!
  • Makerbot needs to be given back
  • If you want a private class see Eli.
  • Bed heats up faster now, in 1 min compared to an hour
  • Need to store 3d printer code on HackPgh github

• Dues Cash Payment System
  • Part 2, we'd like to automate this process. We already have the bill reader and Pi. Needs to be programmed.
  • A lot of progress has been made on this over the past few days. Anthony and Gene are working on it

Old Business

• Sign Ideas
  • Photo is FINALLY Finished and will be sent out for ideas soon.
  • We are taking ideas from members, send us a sketch, picture
  • Chad will send the photo to the list soon

• Board is working on determining the feasibility of discounts for 6 months payments.
  • $2 a month discount if you pay for a 6 month membership. Instead of $180 you would be paying $168
  • If you stop being a member within those 6 months, you lose the discount
  • Vote
    • Jonathan motions
    • All present agree, 2 people did not vote

• BoXZY! 3D printer/laser cutter/CNC all in one.
  • They challenged us to do a project with it.

• Chad was at an event at Wiggle Whiskey. He was talking to them about an event with a barrel ride. They wanted to build something to carry a keg.
  • He wanted to use a PowerWheels to pull a train like thing and dress it up like a locomotive.
  • May 1st
  • They are also "down" with us holding an event here as a fundraiser for us.
  • Something about etching an artist's drawing on a mini barrel
  • Lets etch "HackPgh was here", they will never forget us, for good or for bad

• Doug and Val started talking about an Arduino for Artists Class
  • Don't focus on breadboarding, but work on soldering to wires and other Arduino devices.
  • They are working out the details.

• HackPGH Shop Hack-A-Thon!
  • Lets fix the shop up. Make it better!
  • What issues do we have with the shop?
  • Make something fun and random to be in the shop. (walls etc...)
  • May 30th, 12p - 31st 12p.

New Business

• Dirty Ball
  • April 11th
  • Need a fun interactive project. Brainstorm ideas.
    • Reubins Tube

• Jonathan is working on a server closet for HackPgh

Move to Adjourn

• Gene motions, Jonathan seconds
• Adjourned 8:25pm