Member Meeting Minutes for October 3, 2012

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees:
  • Scott prime
  • Jeremy
  • JET
  • Anthony
  • Eli

• Called to order at:
  • 7:30pm

New Members

• Halley Martin
• Luke Kambic

--- DWP: Items below copied from Sept 19 meeting, needs updating.

Recent Events

• Fri Sep 21st - FiniSH IT MMF Edition
• Sat Sep 22nd - Mini Maker Faire PGH
• Thr Sep 27th - OHSummit
• Fri Sep 28th - Artemis!
• Sat Sep 29th - World Maker Faire NY

Upcoming Events

• Thu Oct 4th - Lockpick Club
• Fri Oct 5th - Maker fair season wrap-up
• Sat Oct 6th - Intro to El wire (Class)
• Mon Oct 8th - UAV Working Group (Members only)
• Tue Oct 9th - Open source hardware
• Thu Oct 11th - Knot Tying Club
• Fri Oct 12th - 3D printing
• Tue Oct 16th - Loop PGH
• Wed Oct 17th - Shop safety class before members meeting (Members only)
• Fri Oct 19th - Garment Making from Pattern to Finish
• Fri Oct 26th - Make your own vaccuform mask
• Sat Oct 27th - soft circuits II
• Sun Oct 28th - Balloon Launch (tentative)
• Sat Nov 4th - WACOM Hamfest
• Sat Nov 10th - Shop Cleanup Day
• Sat Nov 17th - Intermediate processing

• Potential Friday Night talks/events:
  • Hard drive rescue
  • Costuming
  • Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)

Maker Faires!

• Frowny Face

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

• Window Lights project - lights acquired, to be placed in window "soon"?
• Electronics Workstation - next steps?
• RFID project, next steps:
  • Doug needs to scan cards
  • 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

• Bicycle rack
  • hold until after MMF
• New aerial ping pong drop
  • No active plan, can be picked up if anyone interested
• VIA Festival request
  • Oct. 6th 3-9pm at Shadow Lounge in Ease Liberty
  • looking for people to do interactive demos
• New local group forming: Go Steel Programmers (www.go-steel-programmers.org)
• Shop cleanliness
• Regular soldering classes

Motion to adjourn: