Member Meeting Minutes for Apr 1, 2015

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees:
  • Jim
  • Bob Berger
  • Gene
  • Eli
  • Scott^2
  • Jonathan
  • Wesley
  • Volker
  • Steve
  • Chad
  • Geno
  • Jet
  • Anthony
  • Alex
  • EJ (Google Hangouts)

• Called to order at: 7:41pm

New Members

• None

Recent Events

• March 21 - CNC Build
  • Excellent job, it works great. Thanks a lot Volker and Chad and Bob
• March 21 - Music & Technology Club
  • Nobody showed up
• March 27 - Build for Dirty Ball.
  • Lots of people, sat around, talked, did not build anything
• March 28th - Arduino Day
  • We missed the boat on that one

Upcoming Events

• April 6th - Software Club
• April 8th - Tesla Club
• April 9th - Steel City Infosec Meetup - Penetration Testing Drop Boxes
• April 10th - Analog Game Night
• April 11th - LUG
• April 11th - Dirty Ball
• April 13th - UAV Club

Potential Evening talks/events

• Another Build Your Own Antennas Class
  • Adam wanted to teach this. Something other than wifi antennas

• BoXZY
  • BoXZY wants to come here and do talk on it soon

• Talk about kickstarter

• Jonathan wants to do talk on databases

Learning Tracks

• Arduino Track
  • Next up... Diyode.
  • Potential date June 13
• April 11th DirtyBall
• April 22nd, Earth day

Shop Projects / Updates

• Power wheels
  • I choo choo choose you!
  • Barrel run May 1st!
  • Build contraption to take a Wiggle Whiskey barrel 2 miles from their HQ
  • We will build a power wheels sized train to push/pull the barrel
  • Chad has parts in his car. This will actually happen

• • Dirty Ball April 11th!

• CNC Router
  • It's Alive! Did its first cut.
  • about 0.4mm off. We will fix soon.
  • EJ says we should be able to do aluminum

• Laser Cutter
  • Purchasing new lens for finer etching. Chad needs to do that.
  • Slight issue. If you turn it on, and it doesn't datum. Turn it off, and move the gantry. Turn it on again or slowly move the gantry.
  • Talk to Chad, Bob, Gene, Alex for class

• 3-D Printer
  • Workstation is up!
  • If you want a private class see Eli, Alex, or Chad.

• BoXZY! 3D printer/laser cutter/CNC all in one.
  • Parts are in for a Nixie Tube clock
  • In talks to get a BoXZY.

• Dirty Ball
  • April 11th

• Foundry project by Alex and Wesley

Old Business

• Sign Ideas
  • Photo is FINALLY Finished and will be sent out for ideas soon.
  • We are taking ideas from members, send us a sketch, picture
  • Chad will send the photo to the list soon

• Board is working on determining the feasibility of discounts for 6 months payments.
  • $2 a month discount if you pay for a 6 month membership. Instead of $180 you would be paying $168
  • If you stop being a member within those 6 months,you are refunded, but you lose the discount
  • Vote
    • Jonathan motions
    • All present agree, 2 people did not vote

• April 11th DirtyBall
  • Huge party at warehouse, creative artsy people, a little risque, crazy and fun
  • If HackPgh would do a cool project for them, we would get in for free, its expensive otherwise
  • Good advertising opportunity for us
  • We need to brainstorm ideas
  • Lets meet during Finish it Friday on March 27, 7pm (We need another date to do this)

• Chad was at an event at Wiggle Whiskey. He was talking to them about an event with a barrel ride. They wanted to build something to carry a keg.
  • He wanted to use a PowerWheels to pull a train like thing and dress it up like a locomotive.
  • May 1st
  • They are also "down" with us holding an event here as a fundraiser for us.
  • Something about etching an artist's drawing on a mini barrel
  • Lets etch "HackPgh was here", they will never forget us, for good or for bad

• Doug and Val started talking about an Arduino for Artists Class
  • Don't focus on breadboarding, but work on soldering to wires and other Arduino devices.
  • They are working out the details.

• HackPGH Shop Hack-A-Thon!
  • Lets fix the shop up. Make it better!
  • What issues do we have with the shop?
  • Make something fun and random to be in the shop. (walls etc...)
  • Possibly open to public, but sign a waiver, can't use big power tools
  • May 30th, 12p - 31st 12p.

• April 22nd, Earth day
  • Chad wants to launch balloons with sensors to detect smog
  • Red/Green lights that indicate presence of smog
  • Lets meet April 19th and discuss it, setup the balloons, meet at 1pm-4pm

• Jonathan is working on a server closet for HackPgh
  • Make google hangouts easier via the server
  • Use raspberry Pi
  • Detect people automatically
  • Store HackPgh documents, github

New Business

• Eli has idea to make a 3d light cube using the same lights as our 2d light board
• Wplug wants to meet May 23 and June 22
• We have a new stick welder
• Alex wants to start a mechanical club. Machining, welding, CNC machining,lathe machining, Internal Combustion engines, gears, you get the idea.
  • Starting May 2nd, 1st Sat of Month 1-4pm
• Scott^2 has general announcement. CMU has awesome film festival. cmu.com/faces. Admission is $10 for regular people $5 for students. Short 1 hour films. Alcoholic beverages after.
• Wesley wants to help Alex build a foundry.

Move to Adjourn

• Anthony motions, Jonathan seconds.
  • Adjourned 8:19pm