Minutes:October 03, 2007

October 03, 2007

IMPORTANT MEETING! MSG Planning, Membership Dues, Committee Creation (T-Shirts, Blogging, and Evangelism), Space hunting, and Reprap introduction!

Attendees

George Shammas, Eric Skiff, Diana Eng, Dave Clausen, Zach Smith, and Bre Pettis

Thoughts for the Microcontroler workshop / next meeting

• Bring some soldering irons
• Nick will give presentation about illumilight and resin
• Eric doing quick presentation on wiki
• Nick: Lets get in the role of doing 15 minute tutorial things
• Raphael: Will do transistor talk on the 24th

Dues

• $42, some still need to pay

Spaces

• can get a place near Lemur, looking at around $2,250
• probably looking at next summer
• MIT just gave a group a $100,000 fab lab in a box
  • Bre will look up which group this was
• Bre did a presentation for Sanford's class at Cooper Union
  • Could use this presentation for fundraisers

Lilypads

• wearable arduinos
• Bre got and accelerometer
• can just sew conductive thread into it
• Nick wants to do heated Jacket
• Eric's idea: Foley Jacket - put accelerometer in your sleeve, it could make lightsaber or kung-fu sounds, mated with a sound module.
• Don't plug USB-> serial right into a lilypad to program it, you'll fry it!

upcoming meetings

• next meeting is the MSG on the 10th
• The 17th will be at nick's place, 33rd and 5th in brooklyn
• The 31st - Halloween, no meeting but will do Phone + IRC, 6PM till 6:15. BE THERE.
• Set up vivabot - if you say Viva! it says: La Resistor!

Committees

T-Shirts

• Use zazzle or goodstorm
  • Nick will do tshirts
• Website
  • Nick will update soon

Blogging

• • Blogging committee
    • Eric
    • Nick
      • Ibeams reblog
        • here's something that might inspire
        • Here's a project someone finished, we're inspired by them
        • Here's something dangerous we want to try, but shouldn't
• Bre is making blog authors

Evangelism Committee

• • Evangelist committee
    • Eric
    • Bre
    • Looking for help
      • really focus on getting the word out there
      • Go talk to so and sp
      • When you write something that's interesting, esp if it's new news, send it off to lifehacker, others, etc. Here's something cool we did.

Pushing projects forward

• If you have a really cool project, be willing to bring it to the group and ask for help, and let people know how they can get involved

RepRap

• • Zack Smith is working on a Rapid Prototype machine
    • Needs help with mechanical stuff
    • Changing all electronics over to arduino based stuff
    • Commandline script for eagle, generates everything you need for the web
      • http://rrrf.org/dump/ (two zip files full of awesome generated stuff)
      • Gerber files to send to manufacturer to get them made
      • PDFs of various components
      • Schematic PDFs

Amazing parts list with ordering parts links

• based off google doc
• suppliers sheet
• unique parts
• Part name and quantity
• PHP script up on sourceforge
  • part of reprap (http://reprap.sourceforge.org)
  • Generates list of parts you need, can either click to buy parts or import to http://mouser.com
• We need to generalize this for a project, and then make it something that we can use for other projects

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