Member meeting 2/20/2021

Opening remarks

Meeting Opened at hh:mm by Rick Green (2/20/2021) 11am. Remote meeting via Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/LateProceduresDivideRandomly

Member Attendance: Rick, Barbara, Ethel, Brian Freis, Stewart Online: Kat, Daryl, Matthew, Ray

Visitors:

Meeting adjourned: 11:46am

What have you accomplished since the last meeting

President -
- Friday night hosting.
- Friday night numbers: between 3 and 5.

Vice President -
- Hosting Tuesday nights.
- Tuesday night numbers: between 1 and 2
- Planning a CNC and laser workshop

Treasurer -
- January 2021 Income: $2,098.85
- January 2021 Expenses: $2,597.94
- GoFundMe account: $1100.00
- Operating Balance as of 2/18/2021: $5,697.83

Membership - NA
- Numbers report
- Members (total, including spouse member): 37

Hosts
- Any issues?
  - Stewart member comes by on Wednesday night. Matthew vouched for him.
  - No issues from Ray on Thursday nights. 1 - 2 members on Thursday night.
- Rough attendance numbers

Movie night - projector and surround system is hooked up. Need some Bluray discs for movies, and a schedule.
Funding ideas - We brought in $719.46 in Christmas ornament sales in December. So far, the Mardi Gras ornaments have brought in $278.82.
Still working on equipment inventory details. Brian has what he needs from Ray's efforts on the spreadsheet.
Previous meeting minutes here Member_meeting_1/9/2021
Consideration for an advisory board for the Makerspace. Spoke to Matt Anderson about this. He is interested and is talking to others. Have not heard back from him yet.
Ray Lamb agreed to be an official host for Thursday nights 7 - 9pm
February Artwalk was rained out.

Future Events planning
- Please see and update this document here. Link (Covid ruined the schedule):
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AByNzKws4ZxcbTRZMlsr_oYx4k57OOZGY49RN8OGKVw/edit?usp=sharing
- Next Artwalk is March 12
- Planning another Open House event on Saturday March 6th. Need to clean the Makerspace in preparation.
- Pi day - March 14th is on a Sunday. Planning a Pi day event for Saturday March 13th.
- Rick is giving a microcontroller workshop/presentation for middle school teachers March 18th at Gulf Regional Early Childhood Development Center.
- Planning the first 3D Printing special interest group meeting on Saturday March 20th.
- Barbara suggested having a monthly 2nd Saturday after Artwalk to open for tours.
- Need some lighting in the front area. Kat mentioned solar ones we can look at. We will chat on Slack about the details. Also talked about a camera system.
New members to be voted in
Jim Spell - Ray vouched for him. No objections to having him join as a full member.
Stewart - Matthew vouched for him. No objections to having him join as full member, and he volunteered to host for Monday 6 - 9pm until June when he graduates.

Equipment wish list
- Welding equipment - Bruce has a Lincoln welder and will bring it in. Ray Lamb also has a welder he can bring in.
  - Rick Baskin was going to contact Lincoln Electric.
- Foundry (Casting liquid metal) (Kat/Westley)
  - Westley to bring in a Big Green Egg. Need some help getting it to the space. No gas burner - coal only.
- Forge (knife making, aluminum casting) (Kat/Westley)
- Ceramics/pottery - Westley is very interested.
  - Need tongs, hammers, safety equipment (gloves, face shields) Westley has a crucible, firebrick, blower/ductwork, fuel(charcoal), consumables
  - Kat will be in charge of safety and training of all metal working equipment
- Plumbing for air compressor (Rick Baskin)
- Sand-blasting cabinet (Rick Baskin)
- Ductwork for downdraft sanding table - May be able to repurpose the one from the recalled sliding radial arm saw?
- 3D Scanner. Possibly using the Kinect.

In need of service/repair/parts
- Old MakerBot printer. The stepper cables between the motherboard and the extruders need replacing (at minimum).
- Wacom screen has died. Appears to be the backlight. Looking into a repair.
- ShopSmith is under maintenance - Ray Lamb is working on it.

Project Ideas
- Lego table
- Small airbrush station in clean room (using existing exhaust duct and blower)
- Growroom - https://space10.com/space10-open-sources-the-growroom/
  - Potentially talk with HOA's about this in a common space in neighborhoods/apartments.
  - Community garden on Dauphin street.
- Floating table/planter (tensegrity table) can be made from scrap wood(https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/floating-table-looks-like-magic-how-possible-part1-79914)
- 3D printed lithophanes from photographs. Rick has test printed one on the Z18.
- More Izzy Swan tables - Rick and Westley to consider building a new demo model, perhaps using it as a woodworking workshop.
- Magic Mirror (https://magicmirror.builders/)
- Laser cut boxes for Valentine day, Easter (customized).
- Cardstock available for laser cards.
- Omni-directional windmills for power generations.
- Heads-up display for cars
- Door jammer - Barbara

Workshop planning and ideas
- Plan to resume Arduino workshops - March is Microcontroller month. April Arduino?
- Kat Laser and CNC workshops being planned after Covid settles down.
- Simple woodwork shops. Bruce and Westley can give these woodworking shops. David is about ready to come back.
  - Simple boxes, bee hives, bird houses, camera cammo