August 13, 2013

Meetings
Previous Meeting: August 6, 2013	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: August 20, 2013

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Many people learned to weld--Thanks Ryan!

New Business

• Red dot laser on laser cutter dead? (Reported by Marcus on the mailing list)
• Please take care of the hive
• RFID access for tools
• Improving electrical wiring in Hive

Attendees

• Ian "el Presidente"--RFID software
• Mike Horwath--Learned to weld, Ultrabot
• Tiffany Bell-Horwath--Brewing stand, Ultrabot
• Ryan 1.0--Been moving, took welding class, setting up LED system
• Ryan 2.0--12th week as a member, taught 16 people how to weld this weekend.
  • This will be last meeting with us-done with cinci co-op
  • Got wrist band project to stable test bed stage
• Shaddox AKA Brandon--50% done with code academy's python tutorial. Will be reverse engineering HP printers.
• Dave B--Devoured by moving and surprise plumbing adventures
• John--can't really remember the last week
• Marvin--making a lot of progress on arduino-powered multi-relay controller, would like help with shift register.
• Jim
• Bryan--happy to be here
• Koi
• Jim--started batch of pear cider, and learned to weld
• Fraklin--get his filasturder kit, and has "color corrector" color^3 board to play with.
• Jim--New full member, will be using laser cutter today
• Dave Lear--Learned to weld
• Jim Dallam--learned to weld. Met about Maker faires, working with Cindy Lou
• Emily--Busy gardening, has fire-place log-sized zuccinis, and 5gal of peaches.
  • Finished crocheted socks, working on "knit in the round" socks.
• Nancy--learned how to weld
  • Learned to make pizza in a gas grill at a campout
• Tye Scott--working on awesome audio streaming (Mopidy), latency issues currently

Minutes

• Dave and John brought up Hive responsibility
  • Drill has taken a lot of wear in one month at the Hive.
  • Please be mindful of tools, take care of them, clean up after yourself!
  • If you don't know how to use something, ask first
  • If you break something, take responsibility to fix it or replace it
  • Clean up your work area, clean up your pop cans
  • This weekend is 3rd Saturday--cleanup Day! from about 10AM to 2. All help appreciated.

• Laser cutter
  • Laser is likely out of alignment
  • Bill is the expert who has realigned laser in the past
  • Shaddox volunteering to take a look at manual and try realigning
  • Jim D will also take a look and help.

• Welding class wrap-up
  • Welder power is locked up--if you have been trained, get the code from Ian
  • Tiffany recorded the welding class, it's on the Hive computer
  • Ian--in the future, there will be a requirement to demo your proficiency in the welder if you want access without taking a class
  • Shaddox suggested using IRC for controlling access to the welder
  • Ian--RFID is the planned solution for access

• Discussion shifted to general tool access system--For Laser Cutter, 3D printer, etc
  • RFID access to use different tools is the goal
  • Talk to Ian if you want to learn some Ruby on Rails and help with this project
  • 51% of members are using RFID currently--good adoption
  • Mike--paper list of names associated with each tool could be a temporary solution
  • Marvin--would rather we go straight for a permanent system

• Ian--Concern over electrical wiring in dirty room (AKA wet room)
  • Ian and John are interested in taking initiative to look for electrician
  • We need to be crystal clear where we want the power drops--last time there were issues.
  • The 240V power line going to the welder is way too thin
  • John--we also want a new power drop in the main room for large power tools.
  • Ian--Also need to spend some time following power wires and labeling the breaker box
  • Discussion continued by interested members after the meeting