Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20140715

2014-07-15

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Agenda

Chair Justin Triplett

Introductions

• Jason coworker of Ted Hansen, who is a pretty swell Red
• With Max out of town, member signups are suspended this month, but prospective members are still encouraged to participate and let's do a brief orientation after the meeting anyway

Show and Tell

• Compute zone money box was made by Greg and is pretty
• Rubber band shooting gallery by Dave, now with windchimes!
• Red Bull made us a cool sign that needs some up-lighting

New Business

RBC wrapup

• We won 2 awards!
  • People's Chocie FSL3D
  • Team Chocie: a weird broken trike

• Project: RoboCrop and greenhouse made of windshields
• So much media coverage! Jamie might write a blog post (possibly only while drunk?)
  • Looking for more RBC/Hackaday pictures from this weekend
• Putting away tools and stuff returned from RBC -- Pair up with a new member and use this as training!

Website & social media

• Everyone needs to step up to help with this since Matt 0 and his metrics are in Boston

Hackaday meetup wrapup

• It was a great success!
• Nate thanks everyone for helping out
• Nate B could use some help turning gopro timelapse JPGs into a video
• Looking for more RBC/Hackaday pictures from this weekend

Windsor Hackforge carpool, anyone?

• Some windsor hackforge folks came to the hackaday meetup
• Every other Thursday, 6PM there are Tech Talks at the Windsor Public libary

The Maker Faire is coming, the Maker Faire is coming!

• Maker Faire After Party-
• U-Haul truck - Marie is in charge of ordering and coordinating the Transportation of projects.
  • If you want your project to go on the truck, Talk to Marie. You must be present to load and unload your project.
  • Also give Marie your $$$.
  • Loading starts Friday, 25th. Marie will make 2 runs, one in the morning, one in the evening
  • Konrad/Marie will start thread about truck needing
  • Coordinate with Bill Putt and his go-cart

• Maker Faire after party-- Officially Saturday 07/26 at 8PM. More details to come on the mailing list as far as flyer and Facebook event, etc.
  • Cleaning Party Next Tuesday hosted by Maddy.
  • Less of a dance party than last year, maybe not have the cops called on us as many times
  • New audio equipment because renting last year was super expensive
  • Party meeting after this meeting

• Greg brought in racks for small art projects
• Reply to the thread if you've registered your project
• All registered projects need to submit a safety plan by July 18th, assistants by the 21sr

• PPPRS still needs Track Marshall for Sunday- contact Matt Huber if interested
  • Free admission for you and we don't have to pay a fine!

• Maker Mixer Friday 07/25; If you have a project, go to this.

• Contact Maddy with any questions about maker faire at all, or if you need anything extra like tables, chairs.

Disposal of Chemicals, Cleaning Paint Brushes

• Point of contact: Konrad B
• Discuss proper disposal techniques
• People are dumping paint thinner down the sinks and they are getting clogged
• Some options
  • Making space for settling tanks to reuse solvents rather than dumping down drain, which lets the waste settle out so you can skim off the clean solvent to re-use
  • smell: you would have it covered so the smell wouldn't be the worst
  • Using an absorbent material such as kitty litter to dispose of solvents as solid waste
  • We need more space for flammables, since some paint is next to the water heater
  • Possible proposal for new flammables cabinet
• Paint Recycling
  • All paint should be dated when it is brought in, since most people are donating things from their basement
  • Can combine all the old paint into one container to bring to SOCCRA

Chemical Storage and Disposal Wiki page created for more brainstorming

Re-doing election Processes

• POC: Greg Smith
• Meeting Friday night 7/18 at 7PM

Zone updates

CNC Zone

• Point of contact: Brian W
• Open CNC July 17th
  • First and third Thursday
  • Show off projects, see what other people are doing
  • Pizza and good times
• Sherline
  • LIttle CNC similar to Paul's
  • Great for beginners to learn about CNC on
  • Working on an issue. It is either with the stepper motors or the drivers.
• CNC Plasma
  • Ventilation is taking longer than expected
  • Assembly required to set up sheeting
• Bridgeport CNC
  • Gone!
  • Tooling for it was donated by members at the time, and could not be re-used for the HAAS
  • $500 of the sale donated back to the space

E Lab

• PLEEEASE email the ZW when you use the last of something!
• Nate does not do regular checks, but is happy to re-order parts for the space

• Hackforge folks brought us some VFD tubes as a friendship gesture, gave 'em some Nixies and a pile of capacitors to take back
• Nate + hackforge, Best Friends Forever

Fab Lab

New 3D resin printer! FSL3D http://www.fsl3d.com/pegasus-touch/

• We will need to work out resin ordering
  • $100/L, which works out to $0.10/g
• It will arrive in August probably

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Attendance

Justin Triplett Steve Nowicki Brian Wennberg Evan Allen ROger S Jason Prasad Gary Morin Matt Huber Dave Scholl Greg SMith Adrienne Patterson Nathan Warnick James Odell CHris Allington Mike Fink Jamie Burdeski Konrad Brown Amelia Meyer Marie Therese Enga Nate Bezanson CHarlie Rysenga