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Revision as of 19:05, 24 February 2014
Meeting Time: 5:30pm Location: Bluebird Arthouse
All members are welcome to attend, and non-board members can join the conversation when invited.
Contents
Legal/Financial
- Treasurer Report
- Bank balance: $381.65
- Paypal: $742.22
- Total: $1123.87
- Wild Apricot trial will expire at end of month - $50 to continue
- Jens/Tom to continue evaluating, may make phone call to find answers
Policies and Procedures
- No updates to report
Check on progress of Building Topics/Projects
- Door access update
- Rye to borrow some parts from Tom (screw terminals, headers, etc)
- Can currently read a card and pull pin high
- Team to start meeting on Tuesday nights (6pm), starting this Tuesday
- EL Sign
- Everything is wired, ready to mount
- Not going to implement rotating gears ATM
- Mike D. suggests another sign in the Bluebird front window
- Bus
- Acquired controller, new brake cylinder
- Confirmed master brake cylinder is good
- Battery wells cleaned and painted
- John seems to be happy about the documentation of the controller and how to hook it up
- New windshield to be installed free-of-charge by Safelite AutoGlass
Check on progress of Member Projects
- Tom M. built a PCB board for the motor controllers on the desktop milling machine - it plugs in like a shield!
New equipment/donations
- There is a box with the parts to a laptop. It is unlabeled and has been here for over a week
- Dominic C suggests a policy where unmarked items are labeled with a date. If they remain unclaimed (via labeling and storing), it will be available for anyone to claim for a project or disposal.
Events
- RECAP: Toner Transfer Workshop (February 15, 1 pm)
- Turnout could've been better
- Example etch was really good
- Personal, anecdotal feedback was positive
- Identified potential for separate EagleCad workshop
- RECAP: SWE Expo (February 22)
- Put a 3D printer explanation video on the laptop, so people can watch the video themselves
- Suggestion to create a "booth bag"
- Next year, have an activity for the kids to make something
- Recommend more than 2 people to run the booth
- Need to have ability to sign new members
- Intro to CNC (March 15th)
- Tom M says he will be ready, only needs a projector
- Intro to Programming for Humans and other Non-robots (March 29)
- Dominic C to run
- Wichita Art and Book Fair (May 9-11)
- Plan to be present, but not to do big demo or activity
- Ideas for things to bring
- Remote control balloon
- Laser spirograph
- Mechanical spirograph
- Scott's Drawbot
- Touch table
- Infinity mirror
- The usual suspects
- Robot Arm
- 3D printer
- Small foam cutter
- PCB Mill
- Tom M to communicate plans to Chris G
- Tom M to confirm booth size
- Basic Sewing Workshop (May 17)
- Riverfest (May 30-June 6)
- STEM Activities
- "We are go"
- Meeting tomorrow to discuss and narrow projects list
- Next meeting to meet w/ other organizations involved with STEM-related activities
- Non-STEM Presence
- Need to decide if we're going to do this
- Need to decide projects/activities for this
- Tom M suggests a collaborative, additive styrofoam-project
- Mike suggests asking other orgs to collaborate with us on a public event at Riverfest
- STEM Activities
Any topics from members who are present
- Taxes
- James has offered to donate towards the cost of taxes
- Will have them completed by his H&R block
Meeting closed at 19:05