Meeting Notes 2016-03-08
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Agenda
- Intro to PS1 and what we're about.
- Let new members and visitors intro themselves.
- Pick 2 random people to introduce themselves.
- Introduce the Board and Area Hosts
- Go over things that need doing around the space.
- Awesome call outs
- Tell me about What You Hack
- Announcements
- Questions
- Votes
- Tour
For extended discussions, we may take stack and borrow from MIBS Rules#Meeting Procedures.
Minutes
Intro to PS1
Introductions
New People
New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)
- Doug | online & ran into Ray & Andrew at CNC meeting | has a woodshop in Humboldt Park, adding 6 axis robot arm
- Maron | likes computer science
- Mark | woodshop at home, interested in Arduino & CNC, considering a home machine, background in Analog
- Nick | welcome back | works in woodshop & metalsmithing
- Adam | learned about PS1 from Google & Simon | interest in woodworking
- Erik | architect, does 3D modeling & CNC | googled CNC rental
- Patrick | software background | new to hardware hacking
- Nathan | programmer & game developer, organizes an open source conference at UIC with Chase
- Chase | works with arduinos
Board and Area Hosts
- Lyn - Director at Purple
- Simon - Secretary
- Jennie - Vice President
- Erik - General Area Host
- Anna - electronics area host
- Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
- Matt Triano - woodshop area host
- Andrew - CNC area host
- Arturo - Kitchen Host
Two Random Members
- Erik - works with wood and plastic mostly
- Will - member for six years | makes stuff for games
- Steve - looking at Avondale DNA Chicago, sat the article about the Tardis on the roof
Things that need doing around the space
- Everybody please sweep a little bit
- Take out the trash
- Put away tools
- Cleanup in the kitchen
Awesome Callouts
- Jared is helping fix planes
- Andrew for getting new sawstop brakes
- Eric & Andrew for getting the shopbot working again
- Everybody who emptied the dust collector
- Shelly & Gerald for hosting the chocolate-working workshop
- Jason for fixing the lathe chuck
- Andrew for putting a new bed in the laser cutter
- Ray for updating the meetup page this week
- Andrew for solidifying the shelves in the hot metal area
What have you been hacking
- 3D printed dumpster
- Ron put an infrared camera in the fermentation chamber to monitor
- Arturo is learning how to program, controlled (and broke) his camera
- Steve - built a solenoid-controlled blinds
- Simon - built pedestals
- Jennie - made scanner picture frames
Announcements
- Send in your proxy votes for SEM vote by Monday at 8pm or come to next week's meeting
- Pi Day is March 14, 8pm
- Bring pie & eat pie
- Fifth Tuesday Potluck after the member meeting on March 29
- Bring food to share
- PS1 Birthday Party - April 2
- It's our copper / wool anniversary
- Analog Game Night is Saturday - 5pm until late in the lounge
- Chocolate truffle demo (and participation) is Saturday in the kitchen - 4-5:30pm
- Flourish conference is April 1-2
- Open Source conference & mini-expo at UIC in Student Center East
- [flourishconf.com]
- Free conference, free t-shirts if you register before the 12th
- If you're interested in running a workshop or volunteering, contact us at the website
- Nathan is releasing a beta version of a free game engine this week at www.pawbyte.com www.pawbyte.com
- [Intro to V-Carve] class on Thursday @ 6:30 - posted on Meetup group
- 300 Seconds of Fame starts tonight after the tour
Questions
- What can we do with waste chemicals?
- There's a waste can in the flammables closet
- We have a burn bucket
- The firehouse down the road will take nasty chemicals
- What's the status of moving the space?
- We are growing into the other half of the building
- Space-planning committee is working on three options for new space layout for a member vote
- We are working on finalizing the lease signing
- May 1st at the earliest
Votes
Tour
- Thanks to Will for giving the tour
Who wants to give a tour?