Member Meeting Minutes for Oct 1, 2014

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Recent Events

• September, 20th & 21st - Maker Faire New York!!!!!!!
• Friday, September 26th - Maker Faire New York Debrief

Upcoming Events

• Friday, October 3rd - Shop Clean
• Saturday, October 4th - HackPittsburgh Birthday Celebration (We're 5 years old!)
• October 10th - Analog Game Night
  • Bring your own games or play someone else's.
• October 12th - Nerd Exchange Podcast Event, Chad takes point
  • Membership feels it's ok to have vendor (ie Comic Book sales) on site
• Friday, October 17th - Intro to OOP with Greg
• Friday, October 24th - Hacking together a costume (or Halloween Hack and Slash)

Upcoming Classes

• Build your own theremin class
  • Last week:
    • Planning in progress. Geno is almost ready to use a 9 volt battery. Almost ready for a parts list.

• Adam would like to give a talk/workshop on Wireless 101/Can-tennas
  • Possibly the beginning of November (8, or 9)

• Soldering class... November 15th. Need to get the ball rolling
  • Need to order kits
  • Advertise
  • Get the tickets up
  • Team effort on holding the class
  • Chad offered to purchase since he has Amazon Prime

Potential Thursday Night talks/events

• GIS talk (Geographic Information Systems) - James
• Luc wanted to hold a talk on magnetics. He wanted to do October, but November would be better

Learning Tracks

• GPS class
  • Progress. This will be the next class.
• Arduino Track... Next up:
  • Soldering class...

Shop Projects / Updates

• Window Lights project
  • Gene got a RaspberryPi B+ added. He needs to be shown how to program the Arduino via Pi.

• Tool Power E-Stop
  • Work is still on ongoing.

• Power wheels
  • We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!

• CNC Router
  • Need to get some wiring done

• Laser Cutter (AKA Frickin Lasers!)
  • Operational!
  • See Chad or Gene or Bob for training!
  • Ventilation issues Resolved!
• $15/hour for the the laser cutter until we determine the cost of operation.

• 3-D Printer
  • Work in progress (Parts are in) Needs assembled.
  • Alex has been working on this.

Old Business

• New RFID Reader arrived. Work has started on integrating the new reader. If you are interested in helping, contact Anthony

• Greg suggested we need to build a bunk couch

• Movie night for Members
  • Decided to hold a movie night near the week of Thanksgiving
  • James proposed War Games.
  • Chad offered to use Amazon Prime to watch the movie, since he has Amazon Prime

• Bob wants to start a music and technology club
  • There is interest in this group
  • Gene moves to approve this group
    • Greg seconds
    • In the opinion of the President, the motion is approved.
    • Need to get a regularly scheduled night

What can we do to make the shop better?

• Post Flyers!
• Reverse Graffiti (cleaning with a stencil)
• Never wet on the street
• Art student to paint garage door.
• More external Events!
• Post your projects on hackaday.io