Meeting Notes 2016-05-31

Meeting Minutes
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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

Bylaws#Purpose

Introductions

New People

New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)

• Laurel | Welder, likes to make things with metal, lamps, functional things, mixing metals, steel, copper, aluminum, etc. | learned about from Keon, who works at the Recyclery
• Sarah | works with metal, making art type things | Laurel's daughter
• Drew | Architecture background, knitting, woodworking, metal, newer to metal and wood, wants to make a coffee table | found out about us through Will G. at the Maker's Lab at the library
• Veronica | in Chicago for the summer, doing an internship with Radio Flyer | runs maker space at Georgia Tech | wants to be a toy designer | making a walking music box, made an R/C viking ship | googled "Chicago Maker Space"
• Tyler | found us through Meetup | with an startup working on UAV and robotics for humanitarian purposes
• Regan | interested in woodworking | found us online
• Adam | interested in woodworking, has worked with raspberry pi, 3D printers, etc. | googled maker space in Chicago
• Erin | builds things that don't exist that don't yet exist

Two Random Members

• Ava | graphics programmer, used to do 3D printer stuff | returning member
• Ken | interested in anything mechanical and/or electrical | a friend in Madison referred us

Board and Area Hosts

• Lyn - Director at Purple
• Jennie - Vice President
• Simon - Secretary
• Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
• Andrew - CNC Area Host
• Shae - Tool Cage Area Host
• Anna - Electronics Area Host
• Arturo - Kitchen Area Host

Awesome Callouts

• Jonny for cleaning up the woodshop. He even cleaned underneath
• Ken and everybody else who helped with the compressor. One hose away from compressor being installed!
• Gerald and Shelly for Buccaneer's Galley, delicious biscuits, and cleaning the kitchen
• Andrew, Matt, Matt, and Ken for realigning the shopbot
• Matt for conducting shopbot authorization and letting it be filmed
• Eric for fixing the bandsaw

Things that need doing around the space

• Make sure that the dumpster can be closed. If it's too full, it won't be taken and we get fined $200.
• Clean the kitchen! Don't leave dishes in the sink. Run the dishwasher, unload it.
  • Clean the sink too! Also the bathroom sinks.
• Check both of the dust collector bins before working
  • Bins are the white 50 gallon drums
  • More info at [Dust Collector]
• Make sure the bandsaw blade is not on upside down

What have you been hacking

• Will made a handheld coin operated pong machine
• Arturo went through ~10 kbluetooth eyboards to find one that would work with Raspberry Pi 3
  • Kensington brand was the winner
• Aushra made a bronze cast piece of bark with a lost wax process
• Greg glued fish to his laptop. They're not sea creatures, instead they're copper plate, hand cut and inlaid with black termaline and mother of pearl.
• Lyn made a purple poncho / cloak

Announcements

• Saturday is Lyn's birthday!
• Tabletop game night is Saturday too, 5 pm in the lounge. There will be cake!
• Extruder party & 3D printer extravaganza will be Saturday, 1 - 6 pm
  • Bring your printers, we'll be printing here in the space, there will be a competition
  • Free, with $10 recommended donation - fundraiser for the space.
• Tool cage improvements will happen weekly through the summer, new labels are on their way.
  • As labels appear, please use them. If you see things around the shop, put them away.
  • If you're interested in helping, contact Shae. Will need help with various projects, including deciding which tools go where in the new/old space
  • Tool cage limbo bucket tools will be removed, check it regu
• Please no tin cans in the aluminum recycling bin, and no aluminum food trays either
  • When we have a forge, we can melt our own aluminum cans
• Jewelry and small metals office hours happen this Saturday at 3
  • Come check out the tools and discuss possible programming for the future
• A member has given us some tools
• Looking for an orange plastic deadblow hammer
  • Sounds like it might be in the shop
• Lockpicking - come pick locks and learn, tomorrow, 7 - 9 pm
• Python Office Hours, 7 -9 pm, come play with any programming language, bring a laptop and questions or answers to questions that others might have
• Weekly music night is tomorrow at 7 pm - CAJOO - cable access jam office hours. Bring an instrument, talent or experience not required
• It's a potluck tonight - as it is every fifth Tuesday of the month
  • Jennie is going to make death star waffles tonight, Arturo will make hot dogs, Will will restock the soda fridge
  • Thanks to those who brought potluck items tonight!

Questions

• Recommendations for polishing acrylic?
  • Jeremy will help
• How can I get authorized on the shopbot?
  • Talk to Andrew or check the wiki
• When do we vote on space choices?
  • There will be a survey first to choose a preferred option.
  • Then a budget will be prepared for the preferred option and it will be prepared as a vote.
• Can we walk through the new space?
  • We're waiting for the landlord to make

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?

• Thanks to Ron for giving the tour!