Member Meeting Minutes for August 1, 2012
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- Attendees:
- Called to order at:
New Members
Recent Events
- Fri Jul 27 - Maker faire Detroit
- PowPowPowerWheels had a great day with two first place finishes, third overall - special thanks to everyone who helped make this happen
- Micro Mini Murder Bot, Glassblock GE-35 LED Project pong, thinking cap, bottle nose, button machine represented
- Great time was had by all, everyone is strongly encouraged to come out next year
- Shop did not have public event, Scott^2 was here, no non-members showed up
- Defcon
- Raspberry piower strip got some good attention
Upcoming Events
- Fri Aug 3 - Surface mount soldering
- Fri Aug 10 - Steam Punk 101
- Fri Aug 17 - Rope Making
- Fri Aug 24 - 3D Movie Making
- Fri Aug 31 - "FLOAT", a talk by Ben Saks
- Sat Aug 25 - Val's Intro to Processing class
- Fri Sep 14th - 3pm visit to Google (Scott has details)
- show off projects, impress Google
- Sat Aug 11 - Welding class for members
- Potential Friday Night talks/events:
- Hard drive rescue
- El wire talk - September
- Costuming
- Social entrepreneurship (Scott^2, ~September)
Maker Faires!
- Maker Faire Chicago - August 3-5 power wheels focus, individual projects only
- Very likely not going to make it...
- Maker Faire Pittsburgh September 22
- Free to HackPittsburgh Members! (But really, why aren't you presenting/volunteering?!?!)
- World Maker Faire NYC - Sept 29-30
Unscheduled Classes
- Sat in August (maybe early early October): intro to electroluminescent wire
- tentatively October 6th 1-5pm
- 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 Updates
- PowPowPowerWheels
- Post race "repairs" -- also, is there interest in having a PowPowPowerWheels mechanics class?
- LEAD Balloon
- aiming for Post Detroit ~end of August Launch
Shop Updates
- We need another sort/clean-up day.
- Shop Garage Sale
- Tentatively Sat Sep 8th
- Potentially have "bone-yard build day"
- There are currently bids on an oscilloscope and signal generator, see Scott for information
New Business
- 3D Printer
- Jet will build one first, eta: Weekend of Aug 4
- Shop build some time soon after
- Scott^2 to develop list of meta-resources
- General resources and information for hacker spaces
- Bicycle rack
- Jet will make signs (fire extinguisher, first aid, etc.) and also move first aid to somewhere not stupid
Motion to adjourn:
Scott adjourns