January 17, 2012

Meetings
Previous Meeting: January 10, 2012	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: January 24, 2012

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Businesss

• Update about the 100 amp // 60 amp sub-panel?

Ongoing Business

• Laser Venting

New Business

• Cameras are installed, be aware of their locations -- Do we want to DVR everything?
• Lightning Talks -- Jon Neal
• Brita pitcher -- There was one in the fridge a while ago, but it gotten taken out and is now in a cabinet. Any reason why it got put away?
  • It needs new filters, did not get regularly used or cleaned. Water would sit in it for months. Paul can bring down a new filter, but will not have it tonight.
• Laser class after meeting
• Cin-D meeting after meeting
  • Related? Jon Neal has access to a wheel chair, could provide a ready-made mobile base unit. We need to retrieve, strip, and clean.
• Doorbell, contact Grant about mounting // drilling near the door. Wired doorbell will be under $40 + effort.
  • Need: Mechanical Chime, Transformer, a commercial grade button to survive weather & deliberate abuse by roaming locals, permission from Grant to install said button.
• New computers at the space
  • Ed Estes
  • Hive Studio - Dave Myers

Attendees

• Dave Myers - President
• Tiffany
• Chris Hodapp
• Brent
• Lauren - (Guest of Shadoxx) Sculpture & Drawing
• Shadoxx (Brandon) - DJ & Reverse Engineer
• Rick - Geek squad installation, making an electric bike
• Eric (Guest of Rick) - Graphic Designer & Snowboard instructor
• James - (Returning Member)
• Jim - Mechanical Engineer
• Tyler - UC Student (Here w/ Jon)
• Jon - EE Student @ UC, general dabbler and assistant
• Jeff Spenser - Software Arch.
• Kellen - (Son of Jeff)
• Tye Scott
• Ed Estes
• Bill Steele - (3d Printer Guru) Software Trainer (Retired from MS)
• Paul
• Ian Wilson -
• Dave Menninger - Makerbot
• Craig - Finances, Membership management, Reverse Engineering specialist.

Minutes

• Alex - Power Situation
  • Question: Long term planning, are we moving? Unlikely
  • 100 Amp might be overkill, 60 Amp ~$600 + $100 "Random Stuff"
  • Slots open on main panel, might be easier to just run a couple smaller lines.
• Laser Venting
  • We need to build a box for the blower
• Cameras
  • Cameras, one in the fab lab pointing at table, one pointing at laser
• Lightning talks
  • Who wants to do one? Jon Neal had stuff to say about this. He is working on his car.
• Brita Filter
• See Jim about Cin-D house bot after the meeting.
  • Jon Neal has found a motorized wheel chair, we need a truck to pick it up, then plan a day to strip it.
• Doorbell
• New Computers
  • Ed brought 3, permanent workstations to have things like inkscape, fixed to a single location and working.
  • Studio machine, Quad core w/ a decent video card.
• Training
  • We will work on the document
• CNC Machine is up and working.