March 10 2014

Meeting Time: 5:30pm Location: Bluebird Arthouse

All members are welcome to attend, and non-board members can join the conversation when invited.

Legal/Financial

• Treasurer Report
  • Bank balance: $241.--
  • Paypal: $876.--
  • Total: $1117.--
• Taxes
  • James S has asked for income and expenditure data for 2013
• Wild Apricot
  • Page setup completed
  • Officially enrolled in the community level membership ($50/mo)
  • Still unsure if members can enroll in 3/6/etc-month installments
  • Board members need to confirm payment history is accurate

Policies and Procedures

• Unmarked/claimed items will be labeled as such with a date.
  • If they remain unclaimed (via labeling and storing) with 2 weeks, it will be available for anyone to claim for a project or disposal

Check on progress of Building Topics/Projects

• Door access update
  • Hardware design is preliminarily complete
    • PCB layout is complete
    • Rye will work with Tom to finalize
  • Web interface started
• EL Sign
  • Will probably complete tonight
  • Instructable will be assigned tonight
• Bus
  • Installed new batteries
  • Slave brake cylinder doesn't fit
    • Old one "rebuilt" - may be working fine now
  • Ray M offered to paint the bus/body work/etc
    • Took driver door home to repair
  • May hook up the controller this week
• 3D printer explanation video
  • James and Mike D to work together
• Need to cleanup Dropbox/Google Drive

Check on progress of Member Projects

• Dusin E posted a Tessaract project on the FB page
  • POTM candidate?

New equipment/donations

• Barb brought some junk

Events

• Intro to CNC (March 15th)
  • Tom working on a simplified workflow which will work with Foam Cutter or CNC
  • GRBL is magic. Tom is mastering it.
  • This event is the day after Pi Day (3.14)
    • Barb will bring a pie-ish something
    • Dom will also bring a pie
• Arduino Day (March 29th)
  • Party at Dom's
  • Bring Arduino
  • Arduino Cake
    • FROM SCRATCH
  • Larger-than-life, working Arduino
    • Need supply list
    • Need someone to coordinate
    • Need think out loud on the listserv
• (Real) Computing for Humans and other Non-robots (April 19th)
• Wichita Art and Book Fair (May 9-11)
  • We will be between steampunk stuff and a sketch artist
  • Will have at least 10'x20', potentially 10'x30' if we want it
  • Chris Gulick will plan to meet with us again in the near future
  • Potential Projects:
    • E-textiles (to promote workshop the following week)
    • Laser spirograph
    • Mechanical spirograph - barb to check on it
    • Scott's Drawbot
      • Sounds like his upgrade is going well
    • Touch table - will need to do some new coding
    • Infinity mirror
    • EL Sign
    • The usual suspects
      • 3D printer
      • Small foam cutter
      • PCB Mill
      • Robot Arm
• Basic Sewing Workshop (May 17)
• Riverfest (May 30-June 6)
  • No significant updates since the last meeting

Any topics from members who are present

• March 15 - StartupWichita.com Hackathon
  • MakeICT has been helping to promote
• March 21 - Teen soldering (with Erin at the library) - 2pm
  • If anyone is available, should
• April 17 - Mead MS doing STEM workshops
• May 1 - McLean Magnet is having a STEM day - do we want to try to participate?

Meeting closed 18:57