December 17, 2013

Meetings
Previous Meeting: December 10, 2013	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: January 7, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Security camera setup
• T-shirts--design was sent out to list, email Ian if you want one
• Table Saw Search

New Business

• No meeting next week (Christmas Eve!)

Attendees

• Mike (secretary)--looking more into DIYbio workshop
• Hodapp (m)--fermenting radishes
• Hutch (m)--working on making 2 stepper motors work together
• Nancy--(m)--was internet "fasting"
• Brad--new member--making magnetic pulsar
• Jason--(m)--roleplaying games
• Andy--guest, greenhouse designer, visiting the hive
• Brandon AKA Shadoxx (m)--bought a domain, and setting up website
• Jordan (m)--dealing with pre-holiday stuff
• Craig--Board member--has been developing google glass, playing with bitcoins
• Bill (m)--replaced a cadillac transmission on the side of the interstate
• Dave (m)--installed car radio system
• John--(m)--working on woodworking safety
• Joe (m)--2nd week here as a guest, been fixing javascript
• Ryan (m)--continuing sourcing parts for CNC router
• Coy (m)--creating VMs and webservers
• Jon (m, COO)--helped run camera wiring
• Ian (el presidente)--wired some security cameras and more

Minutes

Updates on table saw search?

• John--Indianapolis table saw on Craigslist seems like a good buy, some other craigslist sellers have not responded.
  • It's up on the wiki if you want to see specs.
  • Table saw was $850.
• Some discussion of table saws followed
• Clarified that Sawstop is a certain brand of saw, with nice safety features (stops itself when it encounters finger)
  • Ian talked to Sawstop--they will probably give us a discount as a nonprofit.
  • Ian will contact them to find out how much
  • Ryan--used Sawstops are hard to find
  • Sawstops come at a price premium , probably $4K plus. Significantly more than the proposed $1K table saw budget.
  • Jason showed a sawstop video.

More Discussion of Sawstop followed.

• How sensitive is it? Will it cut wet wood? etc
• Ian--there is no savings in insurance with the SawStop.
• Jon--Safety is great, but also consider that we could get a nicer saw in all other respects for a lower price.
• Dave--Shop tool committee should have more clear directions. What is the price point?
• Ian--if you want to be on the Shop Tool Committee Email List, please sign on! [1]

Discussion was ended, with more discussion by interested individuals after meeting.

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Mike: DIYBio

• Recap--Mike is interested in setting up a DIYbio workshop, using Genomikon kit to let participants engineer a colorful bacteria
• This would probably be ~$500 to set up. $30 per parcicipant. Are enough people interested to make up the cost?
  • Just a few people raised hands.
• Dave--more explanation of what this is/the purpose would be helpful
• Mike would like to do a January "2nd Tuesday" talk on this subject

Other Business:

• No meeting next week--Xmas Eve
• Ian--more camera cables were run this week, there will be more camera setup Friday evening if u want to help
• Ian--hive shaped cookie press is in progress
• T-shirts--check your mail, send a message to ian if you want one. He will send you the online order site.
• Joe--is the hive still looking for a spindle sander?
  • Yes! We may end up buying it.
• Andy--has a wood lathe but no room to set it up, may set it up at the Hive.