Regular Member Meeting 20140814

This meeting will be held in MIBS SRC3 format.

Time, location

20:00, Dallas Makerspace

Approval of prior minutes

Prior minutes

Officer/Committee reports

Committee chairs are requested to provide their reports in writing. Reports can be short bullet-points.

Committee Chairs

• 3d Fabrication Committee - Lisa Selk
• Amateur Radio Committee - Benjamin Groves

• Amateur Radio Committee Meeting held on July 15th

• We will begin design and building of our own HF antenna
• We intend to begin construction as the summer cools down

• Amateur Radio Technician Class underway, concluding with exam on September 8th
• Amateur Radio General Class to follow

• Aerospace Committee - Romeo Espana
• Automotive Committee - Brandon Green (pro tem)
• Bio Committee - Andrew Floyd
• Civic Hacking - Stephen Wylie

• Dallas Neighborhood Map Data coming online this weekend; work session is happening either Saturday or Sunday

• Classroom Committee - Gus Reiter
• Creative Arts Committee - Haley Moore
• Electronics Robotics Committee - Daniel Jackson
• Financial Committee - Paul Brown
• Foundry Committee - John Kuhlenschmidt
  • Having a Learning Pottery Video on Aug 30 at 11am. For more details see Events calendar or wiki Foundry Committee page
  • Created a Stained glass working on project shelves.
• Laser Committee - William Petefish
• Machine Shop Committee - Bryan Gangwere
  • Power should be connected to the HAAS, Bridgeport, and possibly the Colchester (I'm out of town and cannot verify)
  • Initial tooling package for the Bridgeport has been agreed upon. Will include:
    • Small selection of end mills
    • Face mill
    • Assorted 5C collets and a spin indexer
  • HAAS Training
    • Curriculum has been finalized and inaugural session has been scheduled.
  • Lathe
    • Needs have been assessed and tooling is being worked on.
• Operations and Facilities Committee - Andrew LeCody
  • Thermostat for RTU #6 move to the lecture room, which should resolve the A/C issue there.
  • Pillar room is serviced by RTU #1, located in the small conference room. We are investigating moving it to the pillar room.
  • Floor mats for the doors have arrived, should be installed by Thursday meeting.
  • Roomba donated, now tirelessly* patrols the hallways for dirt.
  • First-Aid Kits deployed, there are now 4 in total. We still need to put a label on them that ops should be contacted if anything is used from it (so we can restock).
  • Project Storage revamp in progress. Please abide by the project storage rules.
  • New floor mats installed to help keep carpet clean. Please wipe your feet.
• Photography Lab (Darkroom Committee) - Steve Reeves
• Public Relations Committee - Steve Blanchard
• Workshop Committee - Alex Rhodes (pro tem)

Agenda

Note: The normal cut-off time for agenda items is the Sunday prior at 11:59pm.

New business

$200 project allocation for Workshop clean cam project (Brandon Green)

Problem: Some people are not adequately motivated to clean up after themselves

Solution:

• Use crowd sourced analysis of time lapse video footage to publicly shame those who leave a mess
• Use raspberry pi's deployed in ceiling above work areas that use camera and video processing to only record key frames of something happening
• The wifi enabled pi's will have a website that users can go to when they find a mess, by looking backwards in time they can tag the offender
• After being reviewed by someone to prevent false positives the picture is emailed out to the mailing list showing the member not being excellent
• People will have more incentive to clean up, and more people will be motivated to come work on projects because they can expect a clean work area
• $200 will be enough to purchase 2 rasperry pis($35), pi cameras($30), wifi adapters($10), power adapters($6)
• Will be a group project with several scheduled build nights to involve as many interested makers as possible

Minutes

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