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08.14.2011 (week ending)

Group Projects!

Go-kart\RC kart

• Mark Turnage has graciously volunteered to be lead/point on this.
• More information can be found in this thread in our mailing list: link
• Ed Stafford linked these plans: http://www.diygokarts.com/kart-plans/kart-plans-main.html What do you think?
• Examine the engine (In the paint room on the left hand side)

MidsouthMakers' Perpetual Beer Supply

• Ben Eishen has taken the lead on this group project \o/
• The thread can be found in the Google Groups
• It looks like between Joe (turkey fryer) and Ryan T (15.5 gal electric kettle) we have a way of cooking the batch
• We will be needing dark colored (brown prefered) pry-off glass bottles. Bring a sixpack to the space and help contribute to the project if you like!
• We have a bottle capper
• We will need "Star-San" for sanitizing the used bottles, which Ryan T potentially has available.
• We need to be on the lookout for a cheap keg or two
• We could use a working chest-type freezer for beer storage

Accomplished!

• The Air conditioner is operational again!
• Danny C was kind enough to donate some air freshener for the Director's Office.
• The large fire extinguisher (Thanks Dru!) has been placed in the shop by the vice, a smaller one is available on the back wall.
• We should have enough smaller fire extinguishers now to have a couple in the house, 2 in the shop and at least one in the paint room. If you notice one missing, let us know!
• The large 4 wheeler and pallet has been moved out of the way in the shop.
• Danny and Ben E. etched Danny's 3D printer circuit board. Pic

Items Needed:

• Hand Soap
• Charcoal for the shop grill
• Toilet paper

Things to do!

House

• Pull any components/materials for salvage out of the fire room and put them in the left hand side of the paint room on the shelves.
• If everyone could grab something out of the right hand side, and take it to the paint room, we can have the fire room cleaned and ready in no time at all!

Shop

• Please clear off the tables once you are done utilizing them, sweep and remove your trash. Help keep the shop clean!
• We are still collecting used motor oil, please provide your own storage container until we come up with a better storage solution. 1 gallon milk jugs fit on/under the left hand shelf nicely. **There is a 5 gallon bucket that is less than half full if you'd like to donate some used motor oil!**
• If you use any shop materials, please write up something detailed about your project for our website and send it to Joe at: secr...@midsouthmakers.org
• The shop has 2 4-wheelers next to the band saw. Please be careful when moving around it.

Yard

• There are 4 large pallets in the yard in front of the shops entry way. Please be careful, the pallet closest to the shop entrance has several window boxes stacked on it.

Paint Room

• Keep it clean!
• The left hand side of the paint room has salvageable components and raw materials.
• The right hand side of the paint room can be used as a work area.
• We are still collecting cardboard and aluminium cans, feel free to drop them off, neatly, in the right hand side of the paint room(cans) and store the cardboard (broken down please) in the rack just beyond the gate outside.
• Please expect to see something heavy on top of the tarp!
• Please put something heavy over the tarp after you add cardboard to the rack.

As always, feel free to respond with anything else of note or concern!

06.26.2011 (week ending)

Accomplished!

• The Shop Kiosk is almost hard-wired into our main router. We tried tonight to just plug it in directly from the computers NIC to the router, but it kept timing out and causing issues on our network. We'll try going from the main router, to the wireless router then to the comp in the shop this Friday night. Feel free to use the shop kiosk in the meantime, but please make sure to turn it off when finished- It gets really hot.
• Dru trimmed the white plexi for our lit sign for the space
• Thanks to Ryan we were able to collect several assorted old desktops this week! Ryan, Dan and I picked up almost 20 old desktops, a couple of printers and some other assorted computer equipment (3 packed truckloads 0.0 ). We need to go over it and determine if anythings useful. If not we can start salvaging what we can. We should be able to cobble together a few good working computers out of the lot, so please make sure nothing useful gets wasted!
• Thanks to Dan and Ben, We have another IP webcam! It will be mounted in the shop in the upper left hand corner of the mezzanine. The camera needs to be flashed with custom firmware prior to us installing the device. You can follow our progress regarding the webcams here

Things to do!

Shop

• ***We have several parts bins that need to be assembled and moved off the far right rear shelves. If everyone could assemble one bin while at the space sometime this weekend, We can have the counter space back! Please store them in the shop storage room until we get the fire room cleared out. We've had these bins cleaned and ready to be put away for the past 4 weeks!***
• Move "Puppy" from the middle of the shop into a more stable location. Please move Puppy into the left hand side of the paint room, It would be a shame for anything to happen to it!
• We are still collecting used motor oil, please provide your own storage container until we come up with a better storage solution. 1 gallon milk jugs fit on/under the left hand shelf nicely. **There is a 5 gallon bucket that is less than half full if you'd like to donate some used motor oil!**
• We would still like to get the cabinet bases out so we can utilize them in the shop storage room or in the Ms. Pacman room.
• We have the "Introduction To Vehicle Maintenance" class this Saturday June 25th at noon. Let's make sure that they have plenty of clean space in the left hand side of the shop.
• We shouldn't have to mention this, but when the trash cans are full, please wheel them up front so they can be emptied!

Paint Room

• We need to finish clearing out the old, rotted wooden shelves in the right hand side of the paint room. All someone needs to do is drag the old wood out of the room and dispose of it.
• We are still collecting cardboard and aluminium cans, feel free to drop them off, neatly, in the right hand side of the paint room just beyond the gate.
• The right hand side of the paint room (Recycling room) is starting to get trashed again >.< I hereby offer up 30 minutes of printing time on my 3D printer (once its up and stable/no added material cost) to the first 3 people that clean and organize the left and right hand side of the paint room! If it only takes one person, they'll earn all 3 30 minute spots! Check Thingiverse for some neat printable objects.

House

• Salvage components and tear down some of the spare boards and electronics in the fire room. Anything on the right hand side of fire room that can be reduced in size and bulk would be appreciated.
• ***Pull some of the larger bulky items out of the fire room and store them in the paint room on the left hand side. The large, bulky speakers and printers need to be the first victims. ****

Group Project Proposal!!! Go-kart\RC kart It's been 15 days since this has been proposed!

• There is a gas lawn mower potentially allocated for a group go-kart project.
• More information can be found in this thread in our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/midsouth-makers/browse_thread/thread/6e877126845fb2e0
• Is anyone going to volunteer to help lead/co-ordinate this project? We need a plan, some motivation and some initiative!

06.19.2011 (week ending)

Accomplished!

• The large square fan up in the middle of the loft in the shop works (thanks Ben!), It does a decent job of moving air around in the shop. There is a smaller fan on the left hand side that works as well, as long as the first roll-up door is open.
• Danny has progressed on the Google Maps marker, it's about halfway painted and is out of the way against the lockers. All that remains is the other color, touching up and mounting it!
• Dru was able to turn an old CRT TV into an interesting oscilloscope last night after the meeting. The TV should be considered fragile until it's case is re-attached.
• Ben was able to use a borrowed planer to reclaim some of the old bleacher planks stored outside. They turned out rather well!
• Dru stripped an old Jeep PowerWheels, mounted all the interesting bits on a wooden frame. Dubbed "Puppy", it may serve as a testing platform to develop a larger, more sturdy remotely controlled hand cart/pallet mover. http://www.memphisartguy.com/Blog/?p=61
• John will be working on a lit interior sign that we may be placing in the front window. We are open to ideas, it's dimensions are ~12"x36"

Things to do!

Shop

• We have several parts bins that need to be assembled and moved off the far right rear shelves. If everyone could assemble one bin while at the space sometime this weekend, We can have the counter space back! Please store them in the shop storage room until we get the fire room cleared out.
• Move "Puppy" off the work table in the middle of the shop into a more stable location. The old plastic body is up for grabs or disposal if I remember correctly, contact Dru or Judith for more information.
• We are still collecting used motor oil, please provide your own storage container until we come up with a better storage solution. 1 gallon milk jugs fit on/under the left hand shelf nicely.
• Move the desk with some personal project materials (Roy?) in front of the unused cabinets on the right hand side of the shop. We would like to get the cabinet bases out so we can utilize them in the shop storage room or in the Ms. Pacman room.

Paint Room

• We need to finish clearing out the old, rotted wooden shelves in the right hand side of the paint room. All someone needs to do is drag the old wood out of the room and dispose of it.
• The larger black plastic tubing in the paint room belongs to Ryan and is part of his air-conditioner unit he allowed us to borrow. We need to re-coil the tubing and safely store it out of the way in the left hand side of the paint room until it can be picked up this coming week.
• We are still collecting cardboard and aluminium cans, feel free to drop them off, neatly, in the right hand side of the paint room just beyond the gate.

House

• Salvage components and tear down some of the spare boards and electronics in the fire room. Anything on the right hand side of fire room that can be reduced in size and bulk would be appreciated.
• Pull some of the larger bulky items out of the fire room and temporarily store them in the paint room on the left hand side. The large, bulky speakers and printers need to be the first victims.
• We have a PTouch label printer in the fire room, please label any shelf space you are using on the left hand side of the fire room.

Group Project Proposal!!! Go-kart\RC kart

• There is a gas lawn mower potentially allocated for a group go-kart project.
• More information can be found in this thread in our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/midsouth-makers/browse_thread/thread/6e877126845fb2e0
• More feedback, ideas and commitments are needed! I wanna go fast!

06.12.2011 (week ending)

Accomplished!

The paint-room is unlocked.

• We have installed another kiosk in the shop storage room, it has internet access, and is set to join IRC by simply clicking the link on the desktop. It needs a keyboard if anyone can contribute one.

• As with the house kiosk, any PM's sent in IRC to either MM-Kiosk or MM-Shop will be read out loud, (the shop kiosk still needs speakers).

• Danny and John have cut out the large Google Maps marker, all that remains is painting, touching up and mounting it!

• Dan K is working on our RFID entry system.

• Danny is working on some modifications to our storage room in the shop, potentially looking at custom shelves, workbenches and peg boards along the wall(s).

• Ben was able to get the replacement belt ordered and shipped for the large shop fan up in the loft. Once that's installed it should be a good bit more comfortable.

• John picked up a push broom handle for the large push broom, it will be easier to keep the floor clean.

• John will be working on a lit interior sign that we may be placing in the front window. We are open to ideas, it's dimensions are ~12"x36"

• Trent and Paul worked on a weed eater, it still needs to run for more than 5 seconds, probably dirty carb and or leaky gasket.

Items needing attention:

• We need to finish clearing off the table in the shop with the parts bins. The ants seemed to have finish moving their colony outside, so we should be able to put the bins back together and away. We could use another empty parts bin in the fire room, the others can go in the shop storage room until we clear out some shelf space in the house. We need to get the tables cleared before the fiberglass class this Saturday June 11th at 11am. Done! Thanks Judith!

• We are still collecting cardboard and aluminium cans, feel free to drop them off, neatly, in the right hand side of the paint room just beyond the gate.

• Salvage components and tear down some of the spare boards and electronics in the fire room. Anything on the right hand side of fire room that can be reduced in size and bulk would be appreciated.

• We have a PTouch label printer in the fire room, please label any shelf space you are using on the left hand side of the fire room.

• We are still collecting used motor oil, please provide your own storage container until we come up with a better storage solution. 1 gallon milk jugs fit on/under the left hand shelf nicely.

• Last month's "Tool Of The Month" were fire extinguishers for the space, we will be carrying that over for this month... hopefully we can crowd fund 2 larger ABC extinguishers so we don't have to dip into the group's funds.

• We need ideas for a large group project!

Edit: Go-kart\RC kart

• Pull some of the larger bulky items out of the fire room and temporarily store them in the paint room.

06.05.2011

The parts bins on the table seem to be clear of ants. We can use 1 more empty parts bin in the fire room, we have room for the rest in the shop storage room. When people have time, we can use some help putting the part bins back together before the Fiberglass class on Saturday 6.11.2011. There are some clean and dry drawers for the part bins in front of the server room window. Danny is making up plans for organizing the shop storage room. Danny and John Have cut out the large Google Maps point for the space, It needs to be touched up and painted.

05.28.2011

Thanks to Dan K, Roy, Walter and Claudio, we have another kiosk computer in the shop storage room. It is running Debian, and has irssi set up for an IRC client. It needs a keyboard if any one has one. feel free to connect it to the computer and turn it on. To get into IRC, just click on the link on the desktop! No more having to trek into the house just to look something up. We have some spare computer speakers in the library, feel free to hook them up to the shop kiosk, it's set to read out loud any messages sent as a PM to MM-shop!

05.14.2011

Danny will be repainting his minifig head, so don't mess with the fresh wet paint on the zombie head! Braaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnssssssss....

05.13.2011

In the shop, on the tables and outside the roll-up doors we have several large gray part bins. Please be careful around the area, there was a large colony of ants in residence. The eviction notice has been served to the colony's queen, they are begrudgingly moving the little ones. They are rather polite, but are currently relocating to an undisclosed section of the yard. They are understandably cranky.

04.17.2011

John was able to move the large pile of lumber from in front of the main roll up doors and placed them near the walkway in front of the band-saw. There is now some brake cleaner, plenty of brake grease and brake spring removal tools (2) that are being donated to the shop. If you work on your brakes at the shop feel free to use them! Danny recently brought a small air compressor, it's on loan to us and currently in the shop storage room. We now have a set of Titanium drill bits, they are stored in the tool chest in the shop storage room in the same drawer as the jigsaw blades. We also have a small siphon set I was going to use, but is hanging on the wall in the storage room. If anyone remembers, we need to move some of the protective goggles from the house fire-room and bring them into the shop storage room/left hand wall.

The foundry looks like it was moved off to the side and should be considered fragile until Walter gets a chance to check it out and move it to it's spot.

We should start holding on to any used motor oil for the foundry/forge. If you are kind enough to save it, please put it in a marked 5 gallon paint bucket and place it in the shop, covered if possible out of the way along the left hand wall.

04.11.2011

There is a small mess in front of the other mess in the shop. The mess is the future foundry. It'll be cured and out of the way by the weekend.

04.10.2011

Shop Clean Up Day We were able to clean up a good portion of the mezzanine- the rear area in the shop above the storage rooms. We organized the top right section. Currently in the right hand corner of the mezzanine we have some large intact sheets of Plexiglas and some cabinets as well. We then moved about 10-15 full size doors and stacked them immediately to the left of the cabinets. Continuing to the left, you'll find several 1"-2" thick sheets of Styrofoam in addition to several "Fire Exit" signs with strobe lights and multiple coffee decanters. We placed the large air conditioner unit on a pallet for easier removal. We found and sorted several 100' ?sisal? ropes. We now have half of the rear shelves cleared with bench-top access and cabinets. We stored some aluminum planks and sheet metal sections in the right hand cabinets. Be careful with the accursed turkey leg!

If you find yourself on the mezzanine, you will need to watch your step, in the middle section, the first 1/3 of the flooring is solid, but the rear 2/3 of the wood floor is starting to show wear and WILL BOW under normal weight. We currently have some metal wall units over the area and will eventually cover/replace the sections with more sound material.

We were able to get most of the large wood pile moved from the rear corner, it's now relatively sorted in front of the unused roll-up door.

We were not able to fully accomplish what we intended, but we made some serious headway. moving doors Semi-cleared benches and storage

Important Items Remaining

• Move the pile of wood (planks/2x4/etc) from in front of the primary roll-up doors to a more out of the way location on the right hand side of the shop, so the floor space on the left hand side of the shop is clear again [Moved]

Items Remaining

• Finish moving the remaining doors from the right rear corner to the right hand side of the mezzanine
• Move the now empty metal shelf from the left hand corner of the shop to the right rear corner
• Move the large stack of Plexiglas from the desktop to the metal shelf
• Move the smaller stack of Plexiglas from the small shelving unit near the desk to the metal shelf
• Move the pile of wood (planks/2x4/etc) and place on the metal shelf
• Move the large wall panels to the mezzanine or store along the right hand wall.
• Check with Mr. Leath and see if we can use some of the newer cabinets/shelving units in the house
• Finish spooling the rope

04.09.2011

There is a large pile of sawdust on the floor in front of the main roll-up doors in the shop near the heater unit. It's there to absorb some spilled motor oil. We should leave it there for a couple of days to hopefully absorb the spill and make clean up easier. Kevin had the great idea of saving all our sawdust and storing it in a marked 5gal paint bucket and using it for spills. We currently have something similar, but its in a metal trashcan. We need a safe non-flammable storage location for that, in a clean and marked 5gal bucket (which can be found around the back door between the wall and the house) with lid.