Member Meeting Minutes for November 17, 2015
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- Attendees
- Simon
- Chad
- John Lewis
- Josh
- Alex Rojas
- Gene
- Eli
- Geno
- Andrew
- Joachim
- Alex Reasinger
- Called to order at: 7:46pm
New Members
- Andrew wants to join tonight
Recent Events
- NOVEMBER:
- Sat 7th @ 1p - Mechanical Club
- Got the mill running, works well
- Finished portable table for mill
- Mon 9th @ 7p - UV Club
- Wed 11th @ 7:30p - Tesla Club
- Watched movie about Wardenclyffe, 5 people showed up, some new people from meetup.com
- Fri 13th @ 6p - Digital Games Night
- Played Artemis
- Sat 14th @ 2p - WPLUG
- Good talk, fixed the wiki, thank you!
- Mon 16th @ 7:30p Software Club
- Couple of members worked on projects
- Sat 7th @ 1p - Mechanical Club
Upcoming Events
- NOVEMBER:
- Thur 19th @ 7p - Model Railroading Club
- Fri 20th @ 7:30p - Learn to maker your own Video Game Talk 2 of 3
- Sat 21st @ 1p - Music & Technology Club
- Sat 21st @ 7p - Open Shop (for new members).
- Mon 23rd @ 7p - Open Shop (for new members).
- Wed 25th @ 7:30p - Tesla Club
- Thurs 26th - Thanksgiving... Eat turkey!
- Sat 28th @ 7p - Open Shop (for new members).
- Sun 29th @ 12p - SHOP CLEAN
- Mon 30th @ 7p - Open Shop (for new members).
- DECEMBER
- Wed 2nd @ 7:30p - Members Meeting
Potential Evening talks/events
- Eli, basic welding class for members only
- Sometime in January 2016
- Raspberry PI networking class: John Lewis and John Balacko
- Very popular, lets do this soon
- Update: John Lewis did research for it, got his IR remote for Pi working
- Probably January 2016
- Learn Python class, Bob Berger, Simon Heath
- Simon: Basic Python, Bob: Raspberry Pi, sometime in January 2016
- Databases, John Lewis
- John has presentation done, need to schedule later
- Eli, basic welding class for members only
Learning Tracks
- Motor Control
- Geno is taking over.
- Lets start over from "Learn to solder", "Arduino programming", Diyode Shield, and eventually motor control
- Geno is taking over.
- Electronics Class
- Change Arduino learning track to Embedded learning track
- Raspberry Pi learning track
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- IEEE Robotics society talk about it in December with Gene
- December 14
- Continuing to work on it for next year, try to make the car go racing speed autonomously
- Come to meetings to find out more information, and help out
- IEEE Robotics society talk about it in December with Gene
- Power wheels
- Next year, new car, new theme, possible team with multiple cars
- Eli went to virtual power wheels meeting
- New rules, Max voltage 48V, can use commercial LiPO batts(need safety docs), allowed racing slicks, no sharp bumpers, no avocados
- If interested in joining or running the team, send email to the list. Power wheels is looking for new manager
- Next year, new car, new theme, possible team with multiple cars
- 3-D Printer
- I think it's a record... it's still working!
- Foundry project by Alex and Wesley
- Trying to contact casting people from maker faire to help us
- Joachim has a foundry, offering to help
- Server
- New google hangouts server, being used for the meeting right now, video is good, audio has some lagging/crosstalk
- Thank you John Lewis for setting this up
- New Mill
- Working great!
- Digital Display needs ordered.
- Fabrication Station
- Hang the freakin sign already :-P
- 4 moms chairs going to be stored in Paramount Building
- Add the stickers and they are gone!
- Welder
- MIG
- TIG
- Need cart.
- Need argon gas.
Old Business
- We need to get rid of some stuff here at the shop.
- Still need to get rid of ATM.
- Hey Chad finally contacted the guy... Waiting for response.
- Vending Machine
- Being Updated again.
- Still need to get rid of ATM.
- Club brochure
- Rebrand as HackPGH, make the main domain www.hackpgh.org, and have www.hackpittsburgh.org redirect to that
New Business
- Want to move to new automatic dues payment system
- Wordpress plugin
- Sharing the code with other Hackerspaces
- John Lewis has 250GB hard drive for the new server
Project RollCall
- Alex made beautiful flower out of foam using CNC mill
- Chad, selling his pacman table, fixing it up
- Joachim brought his internal combustion engine
- Geno is redesigning the soda can theremin circuit
Move to Adjourn
- Eli motions
- John Lewis seconds
- Adjourned at:
- 8:33pm
Meeting notes by: Geno