Member Meeting Minutes for October 17, 2012
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- Attendees:
- Called to order at:
New Members
- Luke Kambic
- Steve Irish
- Forest Royse
- Friar Tuck
Recent Events
- Thu Oct 4th - Lockpick Club
- Fri Oct 5th - Maker fair season wrap-up
- Sat Oct 6th - Intro to El wire (Class)
- VIA Festival request
- Oct. 6th 3-9pm at Shadow Lounge in Ease Liberty
- looking for people to do interactive demos
- Mon Oct 8th - UAV Working Group (Members only) - cancelled
- Tue Oct 9th - Open source hardware
- Thu Oct 11th - Knot Tying Club - cancelled
- Thu Oct 11th - Children's Museum of Pittsburgh evening over 21 maker night (Anthony/Doug)
- Fri Oct 12th - 3D printing
- Mon Oct 15th - UAV Working Group (Members only)
- Tue Oct 16th - Loop PGH
- Wed Oct 17th - Shop safety class before members meeting (Members only)
Upcoming Events
- Fri Oct 19th - Garment Making from Pattern to Finish
- Sat Oct 20th - BEST Robotics Competition Volunteering
- Thu Oct 25th - Special Class from Pitt
- Fri Oct 26th - Make your own vaccuform mask
- Sat Oct 27th - Soft Circuits II - Liz/Doug tickets live
- Sun Oct 28th - Balloon Launch (tentative)
- Sat Nov 4th - WACOM Hamfest
- Sat Nov 10th - Shop Cleanup Day
- Sat Nov 17th - Intermediate Processing - val - tickets live
- Thu Dec 6th - Eat/Drink/Make - Children's Museum of Pittsburgh make night
- Sat Dec 15th - Intro to Motor Control - Anthony
- Potential collaboration with Aubrey/Romibo (Doug has details) - http://www.facebook.com/origamirobotics
- Potential Friday Night talks/events:
- Hard drive rescue
- Costuming
- Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)
Unscheduled Classes
- Solar powered mesh network (follow up to Sayan's talk)
- Motor Controller class - Anthony
- tentatively early Oct
- Public welding class
Project/Shop Updates
- Craft Area - Halley!
- Projector - various
- Window Lights project - lights acquired, to be placed in window "soon"?
- Electronics Workstation - next steps?
- RFID project, next steps:
- Council needs to write up liability waiver for cards/keys.
- 3D Printer
- Parts are in
- Friday will be build day, trying to finish for Sat
- potential monthly soldering class / hackerspace 101
New Business
- Request for sale of "assorted tubes, wires, gears, and mechanical parts" - Doug has details
- Bicycle rack
- hold until after MMF
- New aerial ping pong drop
- No active plan, can be picked up if anyone interested
- New local group forming: Go Steel Programmers (www.go-steel-programmers.org)
- Shop cleanliness
- Regular soldering classes
Motion to adjourn: