Member Meeting Minutes for November 4, 2015
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- Attendees
- Eli
- Chad
- James
- Scott^2
- Simon
- Joachim
- Jim Freach
- Gene Kern
- Volker
- John Lewis
- Brian Coulter
- Ryan Priore
- Josh Nord
- Alex
- Alex 2.0
- Steve Owens
- Geno
- Andrew Campbell
- Called to order at: 7:50
New Members
- Ryan Priore
- CTO of tech company
- Loves making stuff with kids, arduino, robotics
- Chemist by training
- Josh Nord
- Likes tinkering, likes music
- Invented musical devices
- Been wanting to find place like HackPGH for years
- Alex
- Robotics guy since 4 yrs old
- Maker/Hacker
- Has experience in basically everything technology
- Designed his own flight simulators
- Brian Coulter
- Nuclear Engineer
- Does a lot of Computer Science
- Works at Westinghouse
- Wants to learn practical stuff
- Andrew Campbell
- Bilingual Japanese machinist watchmaker
- Works with CNC machines for living
- Pitt grad
- Been maker his whole life
- Makes Japanese swords
Recent Events
- Wed Oct 21st - BTTF Night!
- Friday Oct 23rd - Learn how to make your own video game! Talk 2 of 3
- Will probably redo the talk
- Saturday Oct 24th - Linux Meetup Group (WPLUG)
- 10 people came, raspberry pi popular topic
- Wednesday Oct 28th - Tesla High Voltage Electronics Club
- Luc showed his coil gun, played with tesla coil
- Thursday Oct 29th - Inaugural Meeting of Holistic Brain
- Went really well, lots of interest, good discussion
- Monday Nov 2nd - Software club
- Autonomous power wheels group worked on car for next year
Upcoming Events
- NOVEMBER:
- Sat 7th @ 1p - Mechanical Club
- Mon 9th @ 7p - UV Club
- Wed 11th @ 7:30p - Tesla Club
- Fri 13th @ 6p - Digital Games Night
- Sat 14th @ 2p - WPLUG
- Mon 16th @ 7:30p Software Club
Potential Evening talks/events
- Eli, basic welding class for members only
- Raspberry PI networking class: John Lewis and Balacko
- Very popular, lets do this soon
- Update: John Lewis did research for it, got his IR remote for Pi working
- Probably January 2016
- Learn Python class, Bob Berger, Simon Heath
- Databases, John Lewis
- Theremin Class 2.0, bigger and better, Geno
Learning Tracks
- Motor Control
- Geno is taking over.
- Electronics Class
- Change Arduino learning track to Embedded learning track
- Raspberry Pi learning track
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- IEEE Robotics society talk about it in December with Gene
- December 14
- Continuing to work on it for next year, try to make the car go racing speed autonomously
- IEEE Robotics society talk about it in December with Gene
- Power wheels
- Next year, new car, new theme, possible team with multiple cars
- 3-D Printer
- Still working!
- Foundry project by Alex and Wesley
- No updates
- Server
- Ordered Core 2 Duo for the server
- 30 GB SSD drive
- Bought velcro for the raspberry pi to hang it up
- Keep the printer plugged in, if you unplugged it
- New Mill
- We has parts!
- Digital Display
- Fabrication Station
- Lets hang the sign
- 4 moms chairs going to be stored in Paramount Building
- Gabe is getting awesome bright LED's for the shop
- Welder
- MIG
- Update: Need to 3d print new spool holder
- TIG
- Update: Need cart for TIG welder
- Need argon gas
- MIG
Old Business
- We need to get rid of some stuff here at the shop.
- Still need to get rid of ATM.
- Vending Machine
- Being Updated again.
- Get new/bigger space for HackPittsburgh
- Will update when more info comes along.
- Suggestion to have shop clean once a quarter or once a month
- Last Sunday of the month
- Scott^2 is trying to become board member of Start-uptown
- HackPGH and Startuptown working together
- Make Friday or another day a day for public to come check out shop?
- We will need to guarantee that someone will be in shop during that time
- Monday 7-10 Stephen Owens will be there, Saturday 7-10 Simon will be there
- We will need to guarantee that someone will be in shop during that time
- Club brochure
New Business
- Next Holistic Brain meeting Dec 22,2015
- Thursdays after that
- Rebrand as HackPGH, make the main domain www.hackpgh.org, and have www.hackpittsburgh.org redirect to that
- Stephen Owens motions
- All members present vote to rebrand as HackPGH
- Stephen Owens motions
Project RollCall
Move to Adjourn
- Gene motions
- John Lewis seconds
- Adjourned at: 8:56pm
Meeting notes by: Geno