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** AwesomePGH - $1000 grants for cool projects | ** AwesomePGH - $1000 grants for cool projects | ||
* Fri Sep 14th - Intro to EL Wire | * Fri Sep 14th - Intro to EL Wire | ||
* | * Sat Sep 15th - Pittsburgh Aero Radio Control Society fun fly | ||
* | * Sat Sep 15th - Mini maker faire preview | ||
* Sun Sep 16th - First ever HackPittsburgh garage sale | |||
** Overall success, moved some stuff, made some money | |||
* Tues Sep 19th - Loop Pittsburgh | |||
==== Upcoming Events ==== | ==== Upcoming Events ==== |
Revision as of 16:49, 19 September 2012
Minutes by Agenda Topic
- Attendees:
- Scott
- Doug
- Eli
- Jeremy
- JP
- Gabe
- Jet
- Sarita
- Dan
- Matt B.
- Called to order at:
- 7:31pm
New Members
- None
Recent Events
- Thu Sep 6th - Lockpick Club
- Gary brought in wooden lock
- Built wooden "practice door"
- Fri Sep 7th - 3D Scanning with Kinect
- Generated good interest for MMF
- Need more/faster 3d printers
- Fri Sept 14th - Spark Truck at Schenley Plaza
- Fri Sep 14th - 3pm visit to Google
- AwesomePGH - $1000 grants for cool projects
- Fri Sep 14th - Intro to EL Wire
- Sat Sep 15th - Pittsburgh Aero Radio Control Society fun fly
- Sat Sep 15th - Mini maker faire preview
- Sun Sep 16th - First ever HackPittsburgh garage sale
- Overall success, moved some stuff, made some money
- Tues Sep 19th - Loop Pittsburgh
Upcoming Events
- Fri Sep 21st - FiniSH IT MMF Edition
- Fri Sep 28th - Artemis!
- Fri Oct 5th - OPEN
- Sat Oct 6th - Intro to El wire (Class)
- Fri Oct 12th - OPEN
- Fri Oct 19th - Garment Making from Pattern to Finish
- Fri Oct 26th - OPEN
- Potential Friday Night talks/events:
- Hard drive rescue
- Costuming
- Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)
Maker Faires!
- Maker Faire Pittsburgh September 22 - .5 weeks away!
- Free to HackPittsburgh Members! (But really, why aren't you presenting/volunteering?!?!)
- Sep 27th&28th - Open source hardware @ NYC Resistor
- World Maker Faire NYC - Sept 29-30
Unscheduled Classes
- Solar powered mesh network (follow up to Sayan's talk)
- Motor Controller class - Anthony
- Soft Circuits II - Liz/Doug Oct/Nov
- tentatively early Oct
- Public welding class
Project/Shop Updates
- T-Shirts are restocked
- Power Wheels for NYC.
- Window Lights project - lights acquired, to be placed in window "soon"?
- Balloon launch for October, TBD after MMF.
- Passport Stamp
- Lives in desk by door, central door
- Do we want to preschedule shop cleanup days every 3-4 months?
- Electronics Workstation - next steps?
- RFID project, next steps:
- Doug needs to scan cards
- Council needs to write up liability waiver for cards/keys.
- Potentially have "bone-yard build day"
- 3D Printer
- Parts are in?
New Business
- Bicycle rack
- 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
Motion to adjourn: