Member Meeting Minutes for September 4, 2013
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- Attendees:
- Called to order at:
New Members
Recent Events
- Thur Aug 22: show and tell
- Sunday Aug 25: Mini Shop Cleanup
- Sun Aug 18: PGH mini maker faire
- Thur Sept 5: Lock Pick (Canceled)
Upcoming Events
- Friday Sept 6: Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire Wrap-Up
- Tuesday Sept 10: Open Source Fab
- Needs sponsor if Jet cannot run
- Thursday Sept 19: Raspberry Pi PBX
- Saturday Sept 21: WORLD MAKER FAIRE!
- Saturday Sept 28: Class - Learn to Solder
- Friday Oct 4: game night
- Thursday Oct 10: Reverse engineer laser range finder
- Saturday Oct 12: Shop clean
- Thursday Oct 17: Costuming
- Thursday Oct 24: batteries and conductive liquids
- Thursday Oct 31: Halloween - no event
Potential Friday Night talks/events
- Hard drive rescue
- Costuming (masks, etc)
- Flat panel speakers
- Shop Show-and-Tell (Quarterly) (mid March)
- Reverse engineering
- Stepper motor hack challenge
- E-Bikes
- Residential solar
- Robot operating system
- Finite State machines
- Game nights (Artemis or otherwise?)
- Food event
- Rube Goldberg Machine
- Batteries and conductive liquids.
- Anyone?
Unscheduled Classes
- Welding class for members
- Need a good welder first
- Ham radio test (late March/April)
- Geno will find out when Pitt Radio is having test, we will schedule cram for right before
- CNC milling
- Need a CNC machine
- Intro to processing
- Arduino Track:
- Learn to Solder
- Intro Programming
- Intro to Motor Control
- Adam Wants to teach a wifi class
- Chad spoke with him, he will get back to us.
Project/Shop Updates
- Power Bill
- Current Bill? 105 (At least it's consistent)
- Window Lights project - lights in the windows!
- Gene is working on syncing the prototyping board with the outside display
- 3D Printer
- Is printing somewhat consistently, still not ready for public use, but see Eli, Chad, Jeremy or Anthony if you want to request to have something printed
- Currently qualified MMax users:
- Eli
- Chad
- Jeremy
- Anthony
- Bryant
- Add possible workstation for 3d Printer.
- Soon we will be doing training on the 3-D Printer.
- Pay System
- Gram Scale for now.
- Will work on pricing. (We need more filament)
- Server Rack / network
- Still need to figure out billing. Killawatt... Who is going to do this? (this needs to happen!)
- Security cameras
- Powerwheels
- Mugs - Gabe needs interest level/count
- Will make a two dozen mugs to start with
- Have not come in yet as of 9/4/2013
- $15 each, $20 for mug customized with text at bottom
- CNC Router
- Setup e-stop for tools
- Gabe and Chad to work on RFID control for tool area
- Misc Unused Tools In Shop
- Gabe selling mini-band saw and mini-lathe, then use funds to buy small wood lathe
- Ask gabe to sell Punch tool and other misc. Anthony motions to sell, Jeff seconds, vote passes.
- Other Options
- Garage sale in (October)?
- Donate it to other places.
- Craigslist
- Items:
- Metal punch (Junior)
- OSCAR (garbage can)
- Small lathe
- Benchtop drill press (assuming Mill is purchased)
- Is it nicks?
- DVD duplicator (sell)
- Pile o computers
- Gabe selling mini-band saw and mini-lathe, then use funds to buy small wood lathe
- Install outlets on main work table.
- Jeff?
- Geno is making signal generator for shop
- Web site hosting (seems to be working faster)
- Seems to be faster, will table unless it gets slow again
- New Hackerspace release forms!
- Everyone needs to sign this.
Old Business
- Shop cleanup
- mini clean Sunday Aug 25
- Major clean Oct
- Will implement some "random stuff" dispositioning systems
New Business
- New Internet Coming soon!
- Rename finish-it
- CNC Mill
- Purchase for $750+250 for incidentals
- Vote passes
Move to Adjourn:
Jeff, Gene seconds