Member Meeting Minutes for Sept 15, 2015
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- Attendees
- Chad
- Alex
- Jim Freach
- Simon
- Johnathan Lewis
- John Balacko
- Geno
- Called to order at: 7:43pm
New Members
- N/A
Recent Events
- Friday Sept 4th - Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
- Froze stuff, had fun, still have liquid nitrogen left, lets use it
- Saturday Sept 5th - Mechanical Club
- Went to Niagara Falls for Tesla Club
- Monday Aug 7th - UV Club (Software)
- Worked on Power Wheels
- Wednesday Aug 9th - Tesla Club
- We worked on the Power Wheels car
- Tesla trip to Niagara Falls 9/5
- Had fun, got wet, looked at historic Tesla stuff, ate wings, checked out BuffaloLabs Makerspace
- Friday Aug 11th - Digital Games Night (Artemis)
- Fun game, new guy showed up, killed many space monsters
- Saturday Aug 12th - LUG and Android Databases talk
- Successful talk
- Monday Aug 14th - UV Club (Hardware)
Upcoming Events
- Thursday Sept 17th - Model Railroading Club
- Saturday Sept 19th - Music & Technology Club
- Saturday Sept 19th - IC Chips and Basic Project Control
- Monday Sept 21st - Maker Faire Media Shoot
- Monday Sept 21st - Software Club (Software Edition)
- Wednesday Sept 23rd - Tesla Club
- Thursday Sept 24th... - SHIT WE NEED TO GET THIS DONE FOR MAKER FAIRE NYC!
- Friday Sept 25th - Movie Night
- Saturday Sept 26 - 27th - Maker Faire New York
- Saturday Sept 3rd - Mechanical Club
- Saturday Oct 3rd - Pittsburgh Maker Faire orientation
- Monday Oct 5th - Software Club (UV)
- Wednesday Oct 7th - Members Meeting
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
- Scott Holistic Brain talk
Learning Tracks
- Motor Control
- Geno will take it over
- Found slides for it, need to get info from Anthony
- Geno will take it over
- 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
- We now have the world's biggest RC car.
- Next step, make it autonomous
- Software team frantically working on Lidar and ROS
- Working on wireless killswitch
- Crunch time!
- Power wheels
- Regular power wheels car needs to be polished, cleaned, and made more presentable for race in less than 2 weeks!
- Possibly put new motor in it.
- Geno is working on getting power wheels train ready and working on BTTF-3 theme moxie skit
- Getting car and train to NYC: Gabe might have a truck, if not, Geno is renting a pickup truck.
- 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
- New Mill
- It's here!
- Next Mechanical club we will take it apart, oil it, get it ready for operation
- Alex ordered additional parts for it
- Need to find space for it
- Fabric Arts Area
- It is now called "Fabrication Station"
- Lets hang the sign
- Welder
- We got more wire.
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
Project RollCall
- Geno: Modify Moxie trophy for Maker Faire, need 3d printer, must fix
- Chad bought eyefi card. We can upload photos directly to Flickr, awesome!
- Use awesome Kodak printer to print any photo on Flickr automatically, 25 cents a photo
- Have HackPGH funds similar to Panther Funds
Move to Adjourn
- John Lewis motions
- John Balacko seconds
- Adjourned at: 8:53pm
Meeting notes by: Geno