Member Meeting Minutes for November 2, 2016

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees
  • Bob Berger
  • Geno
  • Chad
  • Alex Reasinger
  • John Lewis
  • Andrea
  • Josh Smith
  • Gene Kern
  • Jesse
  • Jacques
  • Andrew Campbell
  • James Hyde
  • Scott^2
  • Eli
  • John Wetzel
  • Jake (Hangouts)
  • Eris
  • Simon (Hangouts)
  • Jim Keener (Hangouts)
  • Jet (Hangouts)
  • Harshad (Hangouts)

Called to Order

• Called to order at: 7:41pm

Upcoming Events

• Please see Calendar

Previous Events/Classes

• Open Shop posted on meetup.com
  • 5-6 people came, some interested in membership

Learning Tracks / Classes

• Basic Electronics part 1
  • Nov 5 10am-2pm
• Intro to Python
  • Nov 12 1pm-3pm

Potential Talks/Classes/Events

• Events
  • Flavor Tripping
    • Miracle berries
  • Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

• Talks
  • Adam PittMesh
  • John Lewis- PittMesh DNS/Server talk
  • Grindhouse

• Classes
  • Andrew- Intro to Lathe and Mill
    • Near end of November, or beginning of December
    • Turner's cube
    • 4 people at a time. 4 separate days
    • Cost to be determined
  • Intro to Databases, Intro to Git
  • Soap Making class?
  • Intro to Welding, similar to SynHak
    • Lets drive to Synhak to learn welding
      • Akron mini maker faire

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels
  • Starting new season
  • Analyze the path for 2017
  • Nov 14 meeting

• Power Wheels
  • We won, lego car is very fast and awesome
  • Lego car needs to be rebuilt, repainted, prevent rust

• 3-D Printers
  • Boxzy works
  • Mandlemax needs Octoprint and we need training on it
  • Makegear being fixed by Chris Yohe

• Lathe
  • DROs need to be installed
  • Andrew figured out how to install them
  • Need Gabe's help to weld aluminum

• Fabrication Station
  • Temporary crowded because its being used for fabricating xmas tree ornaments
  • Lets set up Scott's sewing machine
  • We have a silkscreen press

• Automatic dues payment system
  • Jim needs to make sure the API can be accessed directly

• Vending Machine
  • Still needs a raspberry Pi Connected and payments to work.

• Server
  • Cloud with LED's which lights up when people access server
  • John is fixing the twitter sign, replacing with Pi

• Vaccum Forming Table
  • Jeremy Tiogar

Old Business

• Need outlets near mill
  • We have all materials, lets just do it

• Vinyl Cut Open Shop Hours on door.
  • Cathy will do this

• City of Pittsburgh Ornaments
  • Josh Smith and Jessie are getting close on the PGH xmas tree ornaments, got all materials

• Things that need done around the shop
  • Update Member Booklet
    • Members vote to make a PDF, email it to new members
    • Geno will do this
  • Maintain Computers
    • Update/Install Autodesk
  • Section Leaders Needed
    • Fabrication Station

• Shop lights are dead, replace ballast with LED's.
  • Update: This issue needs to be solved ASAP, members are complaining, dangerous to use machine tools in dark!!!!
  • $200 budget approved by HackPGH board
    • This will be done this weekend

• Ideas to keep shop clean,
  • More parties
  • More public events

• Dale wants to talk about larger space with us. Made right here wants to partner with us.

• Create another google hangouts email account and give John Lewis access

New Business

• Laser cutter power strip died, Eli and Andrew were here to hit Estop
  • The power strip was replaced
  • Jet says that from his experience the cooler draws 5 times the power the laser cutter does
    • We need to buy new and better power strip for this

• New Plotter
  • Need a Network card of USB to Parallel Adapter
  • Manufacturer is HP Design Jet 500
  • We need to make room for it

• Simon working on arcade machine
  • Going to put Tardis around it

• Nation of Makers
  • Maker Meal
  • Letters of Support

• We need a cordless drill that works
  • Lets just buy it on black friday

• John Wetzel is offering to help us put gravel in parking lot

• John Wetzel has idea to sell class stuff on Etsy or WooCommerce

Project RollCall

• Andrew made awesome artwork on lasercutter

New Member Induction

• John Wetzel
  • All board members and all members present vote in favor of full membership
    • Key given

Move to Adjourn

• Adjourned at: 9:20pm

Meeting notes by Geno