June 24, 2014

Meetings
Previous Meeting: June 17, 2014	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: July 1, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Space stuff
  • roofing
  • fab lab rearrangement
  • laser cutter down (should we get another laser? :)

• Progoanda
  • where should we distrubute brochures?

New Business

• New 3D printer!

Attendees

• Mike
• Sean--shelves
• Nancy
• Dave M--wokred on beam robot
• Andrew--not yet a member--volunteering at CAC
• Hutch--m--taking care of parents
• Dave (m)
• Julian
• Ben--new member! rooted phone, brought shop rags.
  • also brought some wood to replace shoe rack
• Chris George--mech engineer--new hear! intersted in turnign printers int rapid prototyper
• Brent (m)--opened safe
• Jon--discovered broken laser cutter and fixed it
• Jim--upgraded Gigabot
• Savannah--not a member yet--drew for class
• Ryan--been out of time. Acting CTO right now
  • this weekend in prep for CAC--coming friday and saturday evening.
• Tiffany--working on nursery, growing baby, learnign sketchup a little

Minutes

• space stuff--Jon
  • roof stuff is moving forward...has not leaked in a few rainfalls
  • fab lab rearrangement. It looks much better.
  • Laser cutter!
    • power supply fried, Jon patched it.
    • this fix might not last forever, we will probably need a new power supply soon...
    • we have money to buy equipment, perhaps we should buy a nicer laser cutter?
    • some discussion followed...
    • bigger cutter from same company?
    • Nancy--CURVED SURFACE laser cutter?
      • there is a curvy attachment possible for our current laser cutter.
    • 2 laser cutters would be nice! Bigger one for bigger projects?
    • very rough estimate: ~$4500.

• Brochures Distribution--where do we want to take brochures to advertise?
  • some brainstorming happened.
  • microcenter?
  • workplaces?
  • hardware stores?
  • radio shack?
  • science fiction conventions?
  • steampunk salon?
  • Science teachers at high schools/colleges?
  • At this point--if you think your workplace/hangout spot/school etc is a good place for pamphlets, TAKE SOME!

• New 3D printer!
  • Bill has brought a Polar3D to the Hive
  • Beta model very similar to production model...aluminum rather than steel
  • software is setup on the laser cutter computer
  • you can either use Repetier or the Polar3D software.
  • Mike has the configuration as well, and can help you get setup.
  • Be careful when trying to use it--someone left the heater on,big glob of baked filament in extruder.
  • serial number 13 (perfect)

• Gigabot is also working--Thanks Jim Sheely and everyone who worked on it!!

• Contemporay Art center CAC--light up the night July 3rd (a thursday)
  • we need LED projects/art projects/etc.
  • ryan wants to do an event this weekend
  • CAC would also they would like some hands-on projects.
  • CAC will cover $300 for supplies
  • Discussion and brainstorming...
  • sticky LEDS..throwies?
  • Starbuck's Seed of Life is here. not sure if it will happen.
  • 50 to 60 people expected?
  • Dave--drawDO. circuit on a pencil?
• CAC discussion continued after the meeting

• Other new business

• Chris (new visitor!)
  • Ideas for a rapid prototyper based on inkjet printers
  • would like to do it for under $250 in parts and 400hrs in time.
  • rapid prototyping with baked-in wiring?
  • does anyone have experience/words of advice?

• RYan
  • Flies
    • we have them.
  • keep sink area clean
  • no food left around

Secretary's tumblr pick of the week: http://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/49787803057/every-member-upon-discovering-the-3d-printer