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*How do we get a laser cutter / etcher **7 people raised their hands to put in $1000, 2 for $500 **We can probably make a mill on our own out of repstrap **We could use a laser for etching and make money **Could we lease one? $250 a month **We want to do cutting, we need a 40watt one **There's something to be said for having people in themselves to make their own stuff. Pushing the button is important. It's very satisfying **Lease to own options ***We should call them about sponsorship, etc **Fumes? It'll come with a book. We don't cut PVC for example. It'll make chlorine gas, and it'll kill us. **The ventilation system is important. It'll come with the laser **[[WhatLaserDoWeWant]] **They're essentially a 1000 watt lightbulb **The other thing to consider is that this is a marketing device ***If we're doing insanely cool stuff, it'll be press worthy **Laser subcommittee *Classes **Beginner classes went really well **Other classes got like 1 bite **Raphael lost his voice doing it? **NYCResistor made enough for rent. 1600 or so. **We need to start getting classes for May ready **Arduino classes will be well attended **Naming is important. If doing a class, try to make it completely self contained - 102 sounds like it needs 101. Prereqs are bad. Something like potato guns. **Dino is thinking about a security class **Do a class around building a shield for an arduino, etc. Just helping people build it... **Lets drop 101, 102, etc **Lets break it into quarters as marketing opportunities. June, july, and August should be the next block **Zach has made a board for his intro to arduino - he ordered PCBs for his class through the fund. Is that okay. Majority votes 1 ***Holy crap this board is cool! It's called the Danger Board. It's branded NYCResistor, and it's totally awesome. *Matt is bring MakeNYC here - he's going to ask for donations *HOPE is going an awesome active RFID *Hans is running iPhoneDevCamp at Poly on April 19th - 10 to 6pm ==What are you working on?== *Alicia will be doing a silk screening thing saturday night, bring your shirt if you want to use the supplies *Justin is working on his Gameboy programming class for NYCResistor *Eric Mortenson is working on self playing instruments that are good for parties *Hans is allowing the arduino to act as an extension of whatever programming environment you're using on your computer *Bre is sending up a high altitude balloon (again, they lost the first one) this year it's a glider that will glide back to the position where they started **Bre is considering doing something like that here in NY *Matt - The jacket LED array is being linked to the bluetooth, he might be able to communicate from the iPhone to his jacket **He's also doing the RFID thing at HOPE **He's doing the 5 borough bike tour, it's may 4th and 5th ***Damn, that's the same weekend as Maker Faire *Nick is working on RGB LEDs on a breadboard light array *Eric S is still working on his gameboy album. Needs mixing help and Eric B found him a vocalist! *Eric B is finishing his ITP thesis. He may disappear for a little bit when he finishes it up *Raph is the class man! Other than classes, he's be scrambling to get ready for Maker Faire. It's going to be a little mini here out there. He's working on getting his little twitchy character ready. **It's made to be wrapped in some sort of textile and pad, etc **If any one wants to write personalities for it, talk to Raphael. **It's basically an arduino board that has some servos on it *Rose is teaching herself mediawiki **She's going to put all her class research, etc in there *Where's george? He's at the the Datacenter *Kelly just learned how to solder. She's going to make turn signals for her 74 vespa. *Dino. Still the only dino. He just signed away most of his free life on a book about how to hack Macintosh. It's made to be a an easy *Diana is working on an EL wire / Accelerometer skirt. It lights up as you move different ways *Dave Clausen is working on it with her *Tikva is working on finding a job **Tikva is working on a game that helps people our age learn how to invest **On May 1st there's a meetup called ultralight something.. Alicia will post it to the list. Anyone who wants to make money at a technology startup should come. *Adam is working on BarBot2 - Zach found him some really neat solenoid valves. He's also working on a mega scroller. *Pat is workin on the buzzer at his house, he's working on a way to do sequence programming to make it do "shave and a hair cut" and let you in, etc. **He's also making a jtag programmer *Zach is working on the Danger Board, and he's got some new ideas for RepRap and wants to get going on it again. He needs help! Who's interested? Get involved! **He wants to catch people working on the RepRap machine :) *Lisa is visiting from Berlin still **She's working on the balloon / glider. She got an IMU accelerometer and gyros. It writes out directly to an SD card. If anyone knows anything about sensor correctorization. Sensors always vary to a degree - you have to determine the actual value for the sensors. ==logo / Stickers== *We need a standardized logo - the one on the big vinyl poster is super awesome. Bre will get it to Eric. Kroosh made us some incredible stickers, more of them would be amazing.