Member Meeting Minutes for Sept 15, 2015

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• 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

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
  • 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