Member meeting 2/20/2021
Contents
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
Officer reports
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
- Secretary - NA
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- 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
- Marketing - NA
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Host and Volunteer reports
- 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
- Any issues?
Old Business
- 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.
New Business
- 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/supplies
- New equipment this month
- Embroidery machine.
- Outside trashcan
- 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.
- Welding equipment - Bruce has a Lincoln welder and will bring it in. Ray Lamb also has a welder he can bring in.
- 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 status
- Completed
- In progress
- Downdraft sanding tables being built by Westley Green
- 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
- Next Meeting: 3/20/2021 11am