Member Meeting Minutes for September 19, 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 - Maker fair season wrap-up
• Sat Oct 6th - Intro to El wire (Class)
• Fri Oct 12th - 3D printing
• Fri Oct 19th - Garment Making from Pattern to Finish
• Fri Oct 26th - Make your own vaccuform mask
• Tue Oct 9th - Open source hardware
• Sat Nov 17th - Intermediate processing

• 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?!?!)
  • Parking will be provided-no pass necessary
  • pre-load Friday 5-7
• 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
  • Take to NYC?
• Do we want to preschedule shop cleanup days every 3-4 months?
  • November 10th
• 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
  • Friday will be build day, trying to finish for Sat

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
• UAV group starts Monday Oct 8th

Motion to adjourn: Scott JP seconds