February 11, 2014

Meetings
Previous Meeting: February 4, 2014	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: February 18, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Hive13

Agenda

Old Business

• CPS "Science Night"
• Boone County library science session(s)
• 2nd Tuesday Speakers
• Space improvement

New Business

• New pallet racks!
• Table saw!
• Lathe?
• 3rd Saturday cleanup this week

Attendees

• Mike--made bacterial incubator
• Chris--hosted Cinci2600
• Tye--no news
• Jim Sheely--getting CNC machine working, finishing battlebot for competition, and making robot arm.
• Franklin--got some bluetooth "arduinos"
• Hutch (m)--learning about embedded systems
• Nancy--working on quilt rug, thinking about doing a class on making stuff from t-shirts
• Jason--at least he's honest
• James--new member, teaching a raspberry pi course soon and soldering parts
• Josh--stopped in last week, visiting, making a computer desk
• Nathan--visiting, was a member years ago
• Eric--former member, has been traveling, working with sensors
• Jordan--lots of naps
• Jordan--visitor, friends with jordan 1.0
• John--working on woodshop safety course.
• Joseph--tweaking resume, picking up guitar again.
• Arliss--new visitor
• Ryan--been sick this week, got some work done on CNC router table and Gigabot stand
• Coy-house repairs
• Jon--worked on pallet racks
• Kyle--visitor
• Shadoxx

Minutes

• CPS Science sessions--Updates from Ian
  • 1st school will be on march 12. we only have 4 weeks of prep time!
  • probably will be 90 min event, on a schoolday, 6:30PM to 8PM-ish
  • volunteers will be teamed up with a parent of a child to run events in a classroom
  • K-6 grades
  • We talked about some ideas for specific science activities--discussion was opened up again.
    • Jon--silhouette paper cutters.
    • Ian--learn about how light works--concave, convex lenses, prisms, etc
    • Chris--teach how a computer works
    • Mike--make slime to take home
    • we should make a backdrop that's visually stimulating for kids.
    • Basic circuitry with interchangeable blocks
      • Shadoxx--conductive thread and EL strips?
    • Interested members will continue a planning discussion after general meeting

• Boone County library--more future educational service for hive to do
  • Shadoxx--recently visited boon county library, talked with Krista (librarian who initially contacted us)
    • The work/conference area we have for this event is huge, bigger than Hive.
    • There is a stage as well
    • Library may be able to provide some $$
    • This is a teen audience,"edgier" stuff might be more fun.
  • Some discussion of possible things to do
    • Chris: history of computer hacking
    • contact the R2D2 builders?

• Mike--2nd tuesday talks
  • we missed having one this month
  • We will probably have a robotics-related talk next month
  • Please tell Mike or Jim If you have something you can personally present, or have a suggestion for someone
  • Shadoxx--could put together a presentation on hacking windows.

• Jon: multiple updates about Hive improvement
  • pallet racks: they are here, they need to be assembled, we will probably be underbudget
  • woodworking area is currently unusable.
  • Jon will be picking up a table saw tomorrow.
    • will need people here to help unload it.
  • Courtesy of James, we have a new air compressor that does not leek.
  • lathe: Jon is looking at buying a "real" metal lathe.
    • Likely $1500-2000
    • Jon will update us after looking into it more.
  • we might have a working kiln here soon, thanks to Hutch.
    • Nancy, James: is it food safe for pottery? answer: probably not food safe.

• Ryan: this saturday is 3rd saturday Hive cleanup. Come and help!

• Shout-out to Jim for working on Gigabot

[After-meeting discussion about our CPS outreach...we will focus on preparing 3 sessions: 1. how light works 2. simple circuits compontents embedded in blocks 3. plant biology with food-colored celery and DIY planters]