Member Meeting Minutes for May 23, 2017
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- Attendees
- Dave Coakley
- Geno
- Chad
- James Hyde
- John Lewis
- Adam (PittMesh)
- Corey
- Jesse
- Rob Martin
- Eli
- Alan Bachman
- Steve Morrison
Called to Order
- Called to Order At: 7:35pm
New/Potential Members
- Alan Bachman
- Friend of Rob Martin
- Building rocket launcher kit for cub scouts
Previous Events/Classes
- Oscilloscope Class (First run is free, no material costs)
- Will be part of Learning Tracks in the future
- Scheduled May 5 @7:30pm
- Remake Learning Days
- May 15 PNC event and May 20: Learn to Solder Class
- 3DPPGH - May 10th
- Big Event! Featuring Ultimaker, MatterHackers, and Matt Stultz from Make: Magazine (aka Our Founder).
Learning Tracks / Classes
- Motor Control
- June 17 @ 10am
- National Week of Making
- June
Potential Events/Talks/Classes
- Needs to be rescheduled
- 8 Year Party
- Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
- Fidget Spinner class for kids
- Dave Coakley and Rob Martin
- Late June
- Edge lit acrylic
- Rob Martin interested in teaching it
- 21+ BYOB event
- Welding Class
- Dave
- Learn to use Planar and Jointer
- Steve Morrison or James Hyde
- Talks
- John Lewis
- SSH VNC class
- John Lewis
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- Got parts and sensors
- Meeting this Thursday to lay out PCB
- Power Wheels
- Getting lego car in shape for Detroit race
- Laser Cutter
- 3-D Printers
- Boxzy
- Mendlemax
- Makegear
- 3d printer was donated
- Need to talk to Ryan
- Metal Shop
- Drill Press works
- Wood Shop
- James and Dave working on dust collector
- Tablesaw was wet sanded and waxed
- Don't put stuff on it, or YOU will learn about wet sanding and waxing!
- Electronics Workstation
- Pieces of wall plaster are falling off, need to fix
- Fabrication Station
- Has dedicated power, thanks Jesse
- Some concerns about overloading. Eli will take a look at it.
- Has dedicated power, thanks Jesse
- Automatic dues payment system
- Adam has began making new website dev.hackpittsburgh.org
- Began messing around with rfid code
- Vending Machine
- Server
- Prespi is working again
- Slideshow Presentation on TV is going back up
- Misc
- Safety Report
- Need to test alarms!
- Done!
- We are now requiring anyone who walks into HackPGH who is not a member, sign the release form!
- Anonymous complaints form online for members to report issues.
- Need to test alarms!
- Redbull Flugtag
- Jesse needs help with project
- Need people to work on it
Old Business
- New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups - Make it easy for everyone (inclusion)
- 43 members have signed up
- We are disabling the freelists mailing list by next meeting
- Geno will send an email
- 43 members have signed up
- Checklist for various tools to keep track of their condition
- Will setup soon.
- Clipboards are here. Progress is being made.
- Update personal info.
- We are now requiring a Name, Email and a optional phone number to bin.
- Emergency Contact info
- Geno will send email on mailing list with form
- Bins will be removed if this doesn't happen by next meeting
- Shop makes a lot of revenue from classes...
- We want to highly encourage members to teach classes.
- Becky is working on making us a 501c3
- Volunteer hours being logged
New Business
- Chad Visited Noise bridge. Photos after the meeting.
- Meta Mesh is giving HackPGH super fast speed internet (500Mb of BW)
- This BW will be shared with low income housing in hill district
- Adam asks to ban any non project specific servers
- No torrents
- There will be an Artemis server on there
- Do we need the couch in fabrication station?
- Takes up space, does not get used as a couch much
- Jesse is offering to take it until we get a larger shop
- Bring up to vote: Temp take couch to Jesse's house
- 8 vote in favor
- 2 abstained
- Bring up to vote: Take apart bookshelf and use it to build 3d printer table
- 7 vote in favor
- 1 abstained
- 7 vote in favor
- Open Streets
- 5/28/2017 8am-1pm
- Drawbot, Tardis, Gokarts
Project RollCall
- Joachim is casting a custom heatsink for his engine
New Member Induction
- Gary Prischak
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Full membership approved
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Cressida Magaro
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Full membership approved
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
Move to Adjourn
- John motions
- Jesse seconds
- Adjourned at: 8:32pm
Meeting notes by Geno