February 23, 2016

Meetings
Previous Meeting: February 16, 2016	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: March 1, 2016

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old business

• Housekeeping
  • Leave work surfaces clear!
  • New Noise Curfew - Quiet hours are 10:30pm until further notice.
    • Are we planning on doing something about the air compressor noise?
  • Liability waiver legibility.
  • Warden help/suggestions from membership
    • If you notice consumables are out, a tool has an issue, etc email wardens@hive13.org

• New Year, New Tools!
  • Have you checked the wishlist?

• Tour of Hivetooley
  • Laser update
    • WARNING - Ensure that compressed air is flowing before cutting! The failure mode for this condition is FIRE!
  • 3D Printers
    • Bill has taken delivery of the temperature amplifier.
  • CNC update
    • Vectric Makerspace Program - Behold the power of procrastination.

Minutes

Old Business

• Jim D- Opening day parade.
  • We need volunteers for this. 2 or 3 would be great.
• Jim D- San Francisco makerfaire.
  • We were accepted, and they're giving us $18,000 towards getting there.
  • We need at least 8 people to go out there and help run it.
  • Looking for other sponsors, also

New Business

• Bi-weekly make-a-thon - Microcontrollers and open hack!
• Welcome to new member Alex MacDonald
• Propose a vote for $250 for a new oscillating sander.
• Coy wants to switch over to the Makerspace edition of Vectric - this allows members to install the software at home and do *everything* but generate G-Code.
• Andrew brought in some wire. Six spools of wire. Details forthcoming.
• Stay tuned for second Tuesday speaker info from Jim.
• Dave B brought a carbon fiber tube. Look at it. Nifty.
• The mobile is leftover CNC milled aluminum aircraft parts from Jim D.

Attendees

• Ryan - Tested RFID keyfobs for Hive door access. Building an MPCNC.
• Greg - ready to pour silver bullets, started putting together Mom's BMW, loaded soda machine
• Brett - found us two years ago, back, makes doorbells that ring rotary phones
• Lee - used to work at P&G, retired, looked for 2600 which led him here
• Steve - Lee's son, tagged along, designs fire sprinklers for a living
• Ian - Shaved and polished head, working on website issues for LARP group, working on new Hive print server (named deadtrees), working on giant whiteboard for apartment
• Dave Lear - worked on truck, a plotter, a cutting board, very busy
• John - went to new Hyde Park Belgian Waffle place (Taste of Belgium), saw projection system, fascinated, wants one
• Will - got farther on a couple things he's working on this week
• Tom - job hunt and classes, working on candy-making machine
• Tim - still working on wooden sword prop project, eventually wants to learn wood lathe work
• Coy - Worked on wooden spoon carving, more CNC work
• Franklin - busy with work, not here for a while, working on PTDR codebase
• Jim - had a crew working on a separate PTDR website, wants more people to help with it, and working on cable car Arduino project for trip for SF
• Andrew - waiting on parts