December 16, 2014

Meetings
Previous Meeting: December 9, 2014	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: January 6, 2015

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old business

• Welding Table Update
• Gigabot update
  • Electrical upgrade?
• Area wardens
  • They can start organizing things for the mini open house!
• Lan party guy - Last time this will be mentioned
• Secretary election
  • Nominees: Dustin
  • Nominees: Brandon
• Kitchen lights
• RFID finally up to date

New business

• Laser cutter minute purchases fix
• Extra bigass laser! Maybe?
• Bill is Selling Laser
• This week in wiki!
• Big CNC update
• No meeting the next two weeks.
• New Event with Popup Cincy
• Jim's brother's girlfriend is able to source us poly-styrene for cheap!
• Who Stole Dustin's Knobs?
• Coy is donating/selling some kind of lathe.

Attendees

• Hayden - Jim's Roomate
• Jordan - electric die
• Franklin - busy, new smartphone
• Ryan - melted first Arduino! home automation, ducking Bill (he still sees you)
• Jon - counting votes
• Jim S - playing with topological automation
• Katie - worked!
• Ivan - Gigabot!
• Joseph - watched a lot of "How It's Made". Microcontrollers that run Javascript? Why?
• John - printing 3d ornaments
• Craig - Made 3d ornament
• Jason - too many hugs
• Kirk - moped convention. the coolest thing ever
• Bill - bought a Deathstar laser. Deathstar to come.
• Julien - found breakout board to better improve Shapeoko
• Dustin (Doug, aka Kyle) - Rasperry Pi
• Brandon - jobbed better
• Coy - figured out 3d printing stuff
• Hodapp - caught herpes. and AIDS. really every STD.
• Dave - out of town for the Holidays
• Bill (Guest) - restoring HAM radios
• Charles - got back from vacation. fixed a production outage while drunk
• Jessica (Guest) - made soup
• Elly - wrote down ideas for area warden crap
• Brad - entering volunteer information from a convention
• Ian B - working a lot. brainstorming. science!
• Tom - Made a new silverware organizer for apartment!
• also this guys' name
• Ken - checkup on powertool. bought secret parts
• Kevin - working!

Minutes

• Welding Table
  • Unsure about options. Still researching. Talking to Dave about buying the table he's selling.
• Gigabot
  • Installed new parts (thermister, heating element). Waiting on new firmware update.
  • Still need to figure out where to run new power drops.
  • At least one near the cnc area, one in the dirty room for plasma cutter, etc.
• Area Wardens
  • Refer to mailing list for assignments (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cincihackerspace/mabCax2FQiI)
• LAN Party - ???
• Kitchen Lights
  • No updates
  • Jordan will take over this if it isn't done by the first of the year
• Event with Popup
  • One day commitment, just show up. No other action required. Really great networking opportunity with designers, architects, other creative types.
  • Planned to occur Saturday January 21st, 2015 in Avondale. More information to follow. Stay tuned!
  • Allowed to display Hive projects! Woo!
• Bill is Selling His old laser cutter!
  • 2ftx3ft 65W laser
  • $3500
  • There are other options that will be more of a hassle to purchase.
• Jon also got a quote from wk laser for a 1.5mx1.2m (~4ftx5ft) laser cutter
  • 60W is $4050 not including extra stuff we would need
  • 80W is $4200
  • 100W is $4400
  • 150W is $4800
  • extras we would need:
  • auto z axis: $350
  • sighting laser: $100
  • possibly a chiller: $400
  • USB control: $100
  • shipping and customs will probably be ~$2000 (This is the biggest variable)
  • Total for 60W will probably be around $7000
  • Total for 100W will probably be around $7350
  • Total for 150W will probably be around $7750
• This Week In Wiki!
  • Updates to Welding Page and Wishlist.
  • Area Wardens would be great candidates to edit the pages! They should also be current on the wishlist to check for things in their area.
• BIG Cnc Update
  • Coy stopped by the shop that's milling us the plates for our CNC. Will be done shortly.
• Power Series
  • Wrapped up this year! Will be coming back next year bigger and stronger.
• Laser Minutes!
  • fixed, was broken. not broken now.