Meeting Notes 2017-03-21

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

For extended discussions, we may take stack and borrow from MIBS Rules#Meeting Procedures.

Brian - Treasurer - puts lights onto thing
Jennie - Vice President - woodworking, cars, admiration of Shellie's art tools
Ed - Director at Large #2 or #1 - Electronics and metals and Not Exclusively Raspberry Pi
Simon - Secretary - cameras, microcontrollers
Carl - Director at Large - cuts and pastes paypal information into database and videotapes
Jonathan - Works on computers and also makes stupid things
Ron - Hot Metals Area Host - in charge of welders, forge, fire, danger,
Aushra - Small (nonferrous) Metals Area Host - smaller dangerous, flammable, no sparks
Shellie - Arts and Crafts Area Host - a big mush of arts and crafts digital sewing paint etc etc etc etc
Anna - Electronics Area Host - electronics electronics electronics
Erik - General Area Host - everything that isn't in anybody else's area is his domain, mostly lightbulbs and toilet paper (but also doors and network cables and infrastructure and and and)

Dan - software and electronics, learning how to make wood into shapes (like a baby hand ringing a reception bell)
Alex - tig welding, raspberry pi's, fusion 360
Yuna - digital fabrication & metal
Brittany - wood metal light
Claire - make things, gardening, electronics
Ashley - graphic designer, woodworking, 3d printing
Elizabeth - arduino & battle bots (not necessarily in that order)
Alex - battle bots & arduino (not necessarily in that order)
Molly - leather jewelry & propane flame effects
Zespi - machines & prop building
Peter - fabrication, prop building, general welding
Jeremy - shopbot, vinyl cutter

Brian is working on linked public art with Montreal Maker Space. Touching hands via touch screens across time and space. Contact [email protected] if you're interested or have ideas.
Miller Plasma Cutter is up and running, anybody who was authorized on hypertherm can use the machine if you want to read the manual or Ron or Daron can give quick refresher

Arts and Crafts Office Hours are Friday this week, not Thursday
CAJOO - come play music - 7 pm Wednesday - where? you'll hear us
Python(ish) office hours - Wednesday at 7 pm - come talk code
Maker Faire Planning - mini-maker faires! Come talk noisemakers and help PS:One represent.
Analog Game Night is Saturday evening, hosted by Will "All Games All The Time" McShane
Zen Woodwork Group - hand tool woodworking - Monday at 6:30 pm
- Recently made mallets and shaker boxes
Power Racing Office Hours - Monday, March 27
NERP - Monday, 7pm Not Exclusively Raspberry Pi - microcontrollers and beyond. WAY BEYOND.
Sailing Class - Tuesday at 6:30 pm - March 28 - Wind & sails & how to go the place you want to go.

Lockers that need to move in small metals are going to move after the meeting - come help! Now-ish!
Dubi is going to talk to folks about laserable plastic stacks - turns out they're still there.

Dubi is building structures out of CD's and lasercut plywood connectors
Will made juggling clubs out of soda bottles and dowels and tennis balls and tape and furniture caps and they make a super satisfying noise
Carl - GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE - if someone is or knows a college student to hack on HDMI capture for recording conferences - contact Carl
Brian Tiny fighting robot - version one
Jennie has been giving away kittens

When will the Boss laser be up and running?
- Planning authorization process, hopefully in the next few weeks
- It has not created a fire for at least 30 hours.
Does anybody here work with Asterix or OpenWRT? Has anybody done a pip install on cloudnine? - talk to Dubi!
First authorization for the cnc plasma cutter?
- Still in process
- New controller board, Tom has been putting it back together
- This isn't the plasma cutter that Ron announced earlier in the meeting

Who wants to give a tour?