Member Meeting Minutes for October 7, 2015

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees
  • Chad
  • Alex
  • Jim Freach
  • Wesley
  • Geno
  • John Lewis
  • Scott^2

• Called to order at: 8:01pm

New Members

• N/A

Recent Events

• Monday September 21: Software/CS Group Meeting
• Wednesday September 23: Tesla High Voltage Electronics Club
• Friday September 25: Movie Night
• September 26,27: NYC Maker Faire
• Friday October 2: Learn how to make your own video game! Talk 1 of 3
• Saturday October 3: Mechanical Club
• Monday October 5: Software/CS Group Meeting

Upcoming Events

• October 10 and 11: Maker Faire Pittsburgh
• October 12: Unmanned Vehicle group meeting
• October 13: PittMesh Working Group
• October 14: Tesla High Voltage Electronics Club
• October 15: Model Railroading Club
• October 17: Music & Technology Club
• October 19: Software/CS Group Meeting

Begin tabled items

Potential Evening talks/events

• • Scott Holistic Brain talk
    • October 29, 7:30pm
    • Inaugural meeting
  • Eli, basic welding class
  • Simon, make your own video game
  • Arduino/PI networking class: John Lewis and Balacko
    • Very popular, lets do this soon

Learning Tracks

• Motor Control
  • Geno will take it over
    • Found slides for it, need to get info from Anthony

• IC Class
  • Scheduled Sept 19th, 6pm.

• Electronics Class
• Change Arduino learning track to Embedded learning track
• Raspberry Pi learning track

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels
  • SLAMborghini works great. Beat MIT on first day of race, tied with MIT on 2nd day. Did many laps around NYC faire successfully.
  • Won 2 medals at NYC Maker Faire
  • Improvements of the car for next year?

• Power wheels
  • Car runs, new motor is in place. Took some damage after NYC race, fixed up with new panels/details for Pittsburgh Maker Faire.
  • Ideas for next year? Different theme? Multiple cars? Etc?

• NYC Maker Faire Sept 26,27
  • We rented a house near the fair in Queens. Contact Eli ASAP if you plan on coming

• 3-D Printer
• Needs to have Z Leveled... (Alex, Eli)
  • We did this after the meeting, printer works again!

• Foundry project by Alex and Wesley
  • No updates
  • Steven Morrisson can help Alex, working on his own foundry

• Server
  • It works

End tabled items

• New Mill Updates
  • Alex built table for it
  • The new mill is in place in the woodshop area
  • Need to get it working and start using it
  • Collet set and vice provided by gabe
  • We should buy $200.00 digital readouts.
    • Automates using the mill, easier to use for inexperienced people, faster to use for experienced people.
    • Vote to buy the digital readouts
    • John motions, Jim seconds, all members vote to buy digital readouts.

• Fabric Arts Area
  • It is now called "Fabrication Station"
  • Lets hang the sign

• Welder
  • We got more wire.
  • We got a tig welder

Begin tabled items

Old Business

• Sign Ideas
  • Due Date: September 12
  • 2 submissions in currently
  • Keep submissions open until next members meeting

• Pittsburgh Maker Faire October 10 and 11.
  • Meet the makers on October 9th

• We need to get rid of some stuff here at the shop.
  • Still need to get rid of ATM.
  • Vending Machine (Back on the chopping block). (Need to contact Anthony)
    • Functional soda machine over broken vending machine. Yes!

• Printers need ink
  • Got ink, printer is giving errors, tried to fix with rubbing alcohol, still doesn't work
  • Send it back, get replacement

• Resurrect the members forum, members only
  • Bad idea, need to keep info in centralized location
  • Document our projects better on the website, not just on wiki

New Business

• Get new/bigger space for HackPittsburgh
  • Take over space next to us, 1500 sq feet, $1450 a month
  • Paramount Building basement, 3000 sq feet, currently used for storage
    • Move storage stuff to current HackPGH building, move shop there.
    • Make as much noise as we want, within reason.
    • This space has heating and air conditioning!!!!
    • We need to take a tour of that space

• Raise dues to $50 a month in order to pay for the new building/space for the shop
  • Up to members, we will vote on this, members have final say
  • Tiered membership for $30 a month. Only RFID card, no key, other people need to be here to use shop
  • Create hours when full members are guaranteed to be in shop for tiered members

• Move WPLUG to October 24th

• Suggestion to have shop clean once a quarter or once a month
  • Especially important if we plan to move to new space

End tabled items

Project RollCall

• John Lewis: Media panel
• Alex: CNC mill conversion
• Wesley: Metal pendants
• Geno: Tesla coil theremin
• Jim: Invented kayak pedal mechanism

Move to Adjourn

• John Lewis motions
  • Jim seconds

• Adjourned at: 8:13pm
  • Fastest meeting in history because too busy preparing for Maker Faire Pittsburgh!!!

Meeting notes by: Geno