Member Meeting Minutes for October 5, 2016
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- Attendees
- Bob Berger
- Eli
- Geno
- Alex
- John Lewis
- Eris Symms
- Steve Owens
- Scott2
- Gene Cahill
- Jesse Latimer
- John
Called to Order
- Called to order at: 7:45pm
New/Potential Members
- John
- Working on Dalek robot
- Gamer
- Electric bike
- Joined HackPGH to build his Dalek
Upcoming Events
- Maker Faire Pittsburgh: October 14-15-16
Learning Tracks / Classes
- Basic Electronics part 1
- Nov 5 10am-2pm
- Intro to Python
- Nov 12 1pm-3pm
Potential Talks/Classes
- Andrew- Intro to Lathe and Mill
- After Maker Faire
- John Lewis- PittMesh DNS/Server talk
- Intro to Databases, Intro to Git
- Soap Making class?
- Intro to Welding, similar to SynHak
- Action Item for Chad: Get Andrew information about SynHak welding class
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- Went to NYC Maker Faire. The car works, fully autonomous!!! See the video.
- There was no race, it was just a demo between HackPGH and MIT
- The car will be there at Maker Faire Pittsburgh, live demo and simulator
- Power Wheels
- Did not race lego car in NYC
- Will try to take all 3 cars to Maker Faire Pittsburgh for race
- Official Power Wheels race in Pittsburgh, Jim and Pat are coming!
- Alex wants to award a special Pittsburgh power wheels trophy
- 3-D Printers
- Chris Yohe is fixing the Makegear
- Lathe
- DROs need to be installed
- Fabrication Station
- Bought some Vinyl!
- Scott is bringing brand new sewing machine
- Vending Machine
- Still needs a raspberry Pi Connected and payments to work.
- Automatic dues payment system
- Jim is close to getting it working, did some tests
- Server
- Cloud with LED's which lights up when people access server
- Vaccum Forming Table
- Jeremy
Old Business
- Need outlets near mill
- New Space
- Harlod still wants space next door for now.
- Made Right Here Partnership?
- Vinyl Cut Open Shop Hours on door.
- Lets put Open Shop recurring on Meetup. Excellent way to attract new members.
- One Saturday a month, Geno will take care of that
- This has been scheduled for October 22 at 7pm. On meetup currently.
- One Saturday a month, Geno will take care of that
- Maker Faire
- Party Here
- Cathy will head up the committee for this
- Party Here
- City of Pittsburgh Wants us to do all ornaments for their Xmas tree!
- 90 Bicentennial sign ornaments, one for each neighborhood
- Membership votes in favor of doing this
- Steve Owens and Josh Smith will work on this
- Membership votes in favor of doing this
- 90 Bicentennial sign ornaments, one for each neighborhood
- Things that need done around the shop
- Update Member Booklet
- Members vote to make a PDF, email it to new members
- Maintain Computers
- Update/Install Autodesk
- Section Leaders - Maintain, keep clean area.
- Laser Cutter
- Alex Reasinger
- Electronics Workbench
- Simon Heath
- Fabrication Station
- Kitchen
- Alex Reasinger
- Shop Area
- Andrew Campbell
- 3D Printer
- Ryan and Chris
- Pi Workstation
- John Lewis
- Misc
- Everyone
- Laser Cutter
- Update Member Booklet
- Steve Owens motions to change "Don't be a Dick" to "Don't be a Jagoff" for duration of Bicentennial celebration
- All members vote in favor
- Jim and Steve want to get back into doing train club
- Eli wants to remind that HackPGH members get student rate at TechShop
- Scott wants to schedule Holistic Brain for October 4
- Simon: Python Class, Nov 12 at 1pm
New Business
- John needs transport to get his Dalek to Maker Faire
- Need to get power wheels cars and tardis to maker faire
- Our refrigerator died, Geno has college fridge he will donate
- Power Wheels meeting 10/6, getting ready for Pittsburgh Maker Faire
- John (Dalek) wants to help organize the HackPGH wiki
Project RollCall
- Alex: Engines
- Eli: Power Wheels
- Geno: Tesla coil
- John Lewis: Server and pi stuff
- Bob: K9, clock, astronomy camera
New Member Induction
- Eris Symms
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Key given
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Gene Cahill
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Key given
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Jesse Latimer
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Key given
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
- Vivek Vidyasagaran
- At least 3 members and all board members vote yes on full membership
Move to Adjourn
- John Lewis motions
- Bob seconds
- Adjourned at: 8:25pm
- Bob seconds
Meeting notes by Geno