Board meeting notes 2017-06-29
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Attendance
Danny C, Brandon B, Kara F, Joe F, Cliff G, Ed, Todd W, Count: 6
Agenda
Previous Action Item Update
- Bristle Bot Kits
- Lego Kits - REALLY expensive >.<
- Purchase Nametags
- Monday Member Meat Your Maker July 20th Pizza
- Send planning docs info
- DAN > oil/gas kiln > else sell > else throw away
- Notes from last meeting for this meeting:
Financial
- Treasurer Report
Space/Organization
- We bought and built the Welding Table
- Start building wood working table in July
- Make something like this: http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/outfeed-table-for-delta-unisaw/
- Purchase power supply for Powermatic: http://www.ebay.com/itm/UPDATED-220V-4KW-5HP-VARIABLE-FREQUENCY-DRIVE-INVERTER-VFD-NEW-/111490143307
- Dead angle grinder, broken broom handle, cutoff tool valve seized.
- Purchase table saw blade (and extra for reserve)
- Brandon: Identify needed equipment
- (From Ben E.): Donating stuff that is "too good to throw away" to the north mississippi makerspace. I.e. foundry, surplus monitors/tv, duplicate power tools. Plan on visiting them 7/4/2017
- (From Ben E.): Recycling run. Cans are excessive atm.
- (From Ben E.): Tablesaw outfeed table is slated for July build
- Other purchases
- Toilet Paper
- Bar Height stools for shop (stackable if possible)
- 3D Printer Filament?
Events
- New event workflow:
- "Pencil in date" on Board Google Calendar
- When event date is final, add "FINAL" to title
- Todd (or anyone else) then creates Meetup.com for the event.
- Class Ideas
- Welding class
- OX class/carbon fiber/class
- From Maker to Sold: A class on getting started with Etsy
- Trucker's Wallet Leatherworking class led by Brandon B.
- Groups of 3 or 4. 3-3.5 hours
- Material cost ~$31/person @ 10 people.
- Monthly Event nights
- Leather working (later)
- 901FPV tech nights (Joe/Alec)
- Cookout night >> Family night
- June went well, not huge turn out but still good event
- Board game night
Notes
- Midsouth Makers Board Meeting 6/29
- Financials look good
- Green Light for brandon to buy leather working supplies + bag
- Danny investigate elite business level /w Tandy Leather
- Claudio:
- no cheap way to do bristle bot kits yet
- potential intermediate soldering class
- [An Unfortunate SMD Project | Hackaday.io](https://hackaday.io/project/25265-an-unfortunate-smd-project)
- 50-60$ BOM for 10-12 People
- Minty Boost is another option
- Brandon
- Trucker wallet class
- Might be too big
- Will be making tri and bi fold version
- need to test
- Probably cheaper
- Rivets easier for a class to do
- Possibly do pint or can coozies
- Trucker wallet class
- Cliff
- Order Nametags off amazon
- Toilet Paper
- Meat your Maker July 20th - Ready to Push out
- Members only pizza night
- Social gathering
- 6-8pm
- Claudio and Ben building Woodworking Table in July
- Brandon / Danny will help
- Ed will do general woodworking class in the fall
- Woodworking table based around powermatic
- new motor ~160
- other materials is 400-500
- Need new angle grinder and cutoff valve
- Cutoff tool claudio will checking on warranty
- Ed will look into pricing a joiner
- Need to purchase tablesaw blades
- July 15th ~930am
- Cliff will do can recycling run
- Bar Height Stools
- Ikea metal stools?
- Buy some filament from Bluff City
- Possible event: “junkyard wars”
- couple of teams build something out of stuff from the catacombs
- Alec follow up with FPV night
To Do
- Danny
- Follow up with Tandy leather Elite membership and purchase emailed list
- Brandon
- Generating 2 BoM for things
- Will help wood working class
- Cliff
- Purchase
- Amazon: Name tags, toilet paper
- US Cutter: Black vinyl
- Can recycling July 15th 0930
- Purchase
- Justin?
- Vinyl, black.
- Todd
- Meat your maker Thursday, July 20th, 6-8/9
- Pizza Isabellas
- Meat your maker Thursday, July 20th, 6-8/9
- Ed
- Fall for classes
- Wood working
- Cnc
- Fall for classes
- Ben
- Tool purge NOT delta drill press
- Claudio
- Purchase: Cut off tool, angle grinder, 10" blade, new craftsman crank?
- Ikea purchase: metal bar stools
- Finalize 3D printer filament purchase
- Welding class lamp class
- Surface mount because you hate yourself