Regular Member Meeting 20160310

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
• Automotive Committee
  • Completed Hovercraft project with a successful hovering, anyone want to purchase a slightly used HF Predatator engine?
  • 24 Hours of Lemons race is coming up on April 8-10, Build / Work days on thursdays and saturdays are continuing, see talk thread for details
  • Anyone who would like to learn more about automotive work should attend Lemons build days as hands on projects are preferred by the auto committee instead of formal classes
  • Still to go on the Lemons car includes exhaust work, change brake pads / rotors / fluid, change spark plugs, verify timing, decoration, build ram air intake, fender work / clearancing, and more
• Blacksmith Committee
• Civic Hacking
• Classroom Committee
• Creative Arts Committee
• Digital Media Committee
• Electronics Robotics Committee
  • Electronics completed the big purge of SMD/SMT parts. Plenty went to members who donated $130 towards the parts.
  • Moved the security camera forward for a better view of shelving and Bench 1. Second camera was ordered, to be installed soon.
  • BOD approved a National Instruments Virtual Bench, to arrive soon. Once here we will be putting together several classes to cover using the system.
  • Held a committee meeting and nominations for a new chair. Congrats to Katie Luper to be the new Chair of Electronics in April and Haley Moore as a new Co-Chair.
• Financial Committee
• Foundry Committee
  • Thanks to Paul Wilson for teaching a sand casting class using aluminum on February 4th.
  • Foundry/Fired Arts had three classes since the last membership meeting: Hand building pottery taught on February 20th , making a fused glass sun-catcher on February 27th, and wheel throwing taught on March 6th. All classes were well attended or sold out. A big thanks to the three teachers, Beth, John K, and Elizabeth.
  • Plans are still in development for a stained glass class using lead came to be taught by Dan Henderson. Date and time will be posted to the calendar and to Talk when the class is finalized.
  • We will be contacting the Foundry in Grapevine to do another raku firing in the next couple of months. Projects will need to be bisque fired prior to that date.
• Infrastructure Committee
  • Garage door opener is wired in and can be closed from the outside. The opening function is delayed due to an electrical issue we are working on sorting out.
  • New fileservers have been installed, but the files have not yet been moved over.
• Jewelry and Small Metals Committee
• Laser Committee
  • Failed power supply replaced on the Full Spectrum Laser using one of the spares ordered from China a few months ago
  • Used Epilog Zing 16 with 30 watt tube purchased for $2,500 from a private party using committee funds
  • Ventilation interlock, power, and training materials need to be worked out for the Epilog Zing 16
  • Thunderlaser Nova 63 with 130 watt tube ordered directly from the manufacturer in China using a combination of committee funds and general funds
  • Found a customs agent in Houston to help import the Thunderlaser and get it from Houston to Dallas
  • New larger cash box and cash payment envelopes to help with tracking cash payments
  • For clarification laser usage fees are not a donation
  • Theft of laser usage is taken seriously and members who steal laser usage will be dealt with
  • Full Spectrum Laser machine will be up for sale or trade around the time the Thunderlaser arrives
• Logistics Committee
  • Project Storage has been squeezed with the addition of vertical storage. Logistics will install more project storage (tentative date 3/5/2016) utilizing our existing shelving. This will come at the expense of some pallet storage as well as reducing the height of other slots.
  • Personal Storage has been nearly exhausted. Logistics will be scheduling a build day at the end of the month (tentatively the weekend of 3/26 - 3/27) to build more racks to expand personal storage by at least 50%. Note that the cost for personal storage will be increasing in order to recover our costs producing the racks and providing the bins.
• Machine Shop Committee
• Metal Shop Committee
• Public Relations Committee
• Reloading and Gunsmithing Committee
• Remote Control Committee
• Science Committee
• VECTOR Committee
• Wood Shop Committee

Agenda

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

New business

Board of Directors discussion.

If you have any questions about what is involved come on out and ask questions.