March 3, 2015

Meetings
Previous Meeting: February 24, 2015	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: March 10, 2015

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old business

• Gigabot Update
• CNC Update
• Power Series Update
• Making space for makers

New business

• Structural engineer
• wood storage!
• CTO budget
• Second tuesday talk
• Next tuesday talk possibly Julien + Shapeoko

Attendees

• Ian W - working on the BFR-9000
• Tony - Just joining, in Lorin's UC class. Wants to make a spectrogram.
• Tess - Also new, in Lorin's UC class. Interested in pyrotechnics.
• Lorin - Teaches a UC class.
• Ross - Wants to mess with the welder.
• Lorenzo - Wants to learn about electronics
• Jason - Shoveled a lot of snow
• Hodapp - Just learned it was possible to use a shovel as a sled
• Nancy - Found out that root canals aren't that bad
• Ryan - CTO, welding a coffeee table together
• Ivan - Participated in final friday (transit based art)
• Andrew - Second time here, got a crash course in Linux, researching aluminum casting
• Bill - Brought snow back from Boston
• Jim - Back from two weeks in Germany
• Coy - working on the BFR-9000
• Julien - Has been playing with a cnc mill/Pick and place/solderpaste dispenser
• Kevin - AR-15 builds, lots of free time due to a layoff
• Ken - power tool drag racing season is coming up soon!
• Elly - Wood storage, made brownies

Minutes

• gigabot update
  • Ivan is taking a break from it
  • No daughterboard still
• CNC update
  • Went backwards a bit :)
  • Will be done in a while..
• Power series update
  • Shealy not here
• Making space for makers
  • Very businessy
  • We should do a lot more outreach so we don't get left behind
• Structural engineer
  • Probably around $500
• Wood storage
  • Elly redesigned our wood storage
  • Now vertical! Much easier to organize
  • If you want a slot please ask Elly (she is the area warden)
• CTO budget
  • Jon screwed up the blog and we need backups
  • Ryan wants $300 for a years hosting for virtual servers and backups
• Second tuesday talk is next week
  • Shadoxx will be discussing sound synthesis
• Next month maybe Julien will do a talk/class on the shapeoko