Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20181106

Agenda for 11-06-2018

Chair: Lew

Introductions

Experienced Members

• Mel is i3's Treasurer. Ask her questions about money.

New Members & Guests

• Derrick Hurst just joined this evening. He's been hanging around a little over a month. He's interested in woodworking and electronics and fixing things.
• Greg is another new member, has been around a couple weeks. He's interested in a little bit of everything, has used the lasers over at tech shop.
• CC is working on phase 2.

New Business

Member Advocate Report

Introduction

• Arthur Mize, New and learning – ArtsNCrash
• Alec Beardsley, Third year in the position – truefreak

Status

• New Advocate met with Alec to discuss position
• Working on methods for documentation and tracking
• New Advocate getting a feel for how i3Detroit and Space runs, works with members and works with non-members

Current Issues and Discussions

• Guest Policy – A Refresher
  • I3Detroit is an Open Community and we wish to continue this policy
    • Help get new members
    • Contribute to the area communities
    • Facilitate education and awareness
  • Things to remember when signing in Guests
    • Sign in guests either that you are planning to supervise or those that are attending an activity you are hosting.
    • You are responsible for the actions of the guests you sign in and should maintain some level of supervision.
    • Do not sign in someone you are not familiar with or do not wish to supervise just because you have seen them around.
    • We encourage you to ask people you are unfamiliar with if the are guests, have they signed in, and who is supervising them.
    • As a Member, you may ask any guest to leave if you feel they are not respecting the Space
• Member Advocates are available – Contact Information
  • advocate@i3Detroit.org

Upcoming Events

Events of Special Note

Thanksgiving is in two (2) weeks (November 22)!

• Thomas and Vivian are having a butcher block workshop next Monday. Sign up on Eventbrite (link in calendar).
• There will be another session of the CNC class for those who missed it scheduled for December 2nd at 3PM. Look for it coming soon to the calendar and Eventbrite.
• 3rd Tuesday After-Meeting activity will be making fancy butter for Thanksgiving two days later. Please bring in jars or other sealable containers.
• 4th Tuesday Project Club will be focused on finishing Christmas present projects.
• Floor repairs are planned for Thanksgiving weekend so some parts of the floor may be temporarily blocked off.

Events Until Next Meeting

Wednesday, Nov 7

7-10PM (Semi)Monthly Sew Up in Classroom

Thursday, Nov 8

7:30-9:30PM Laser Training with Matt Huber (Eventbrite link in calendar)

Friday, Nov 9

6-9PM Tours

7-9 Open Craft Room

Saturday, Nov 10

12-4 PM Detroit Autonomous Vehicle Group Meetup

Tuesday, Nov 13

7:30PM Board Meeting

Thursday, Nov 15

7PM-? Game Night

Friday, Nov 16

6-9PM Tours

7-9 Open Craft Room

Saturday, Nov 17

12-4PM Eastern Michigan Python Users' Group Meetup

4-6PM Stitch 'n' Bitch

Monday, Nov 19

5:30-6:30PM Butcher Block Workshop "Pre-party"

6:30-10PM Butcher Block Workshop

Tuesday, Nov 20

7:30 PM Third Tuesday Member Meeting

After Meeting Activity: Fancy Butter Making for Thanksgiving

Zone updates

Bicycle Shop

• Broken cart has been repurposed as a shelf.
• Zone infrastructure now takes up less than 8 square feet, leaving more room to work.
• Looking to make the space supplies cabinet more accessible and find a better home for the paint/stain cabinets.

CNC Zone

• Steve and Drew have been working hard getting the CNC Router tweeked in from the nice rails upgrade Steve gave it and they have been setting it up to be more user friendly for the training.
• Thad has downloaded the Makerspace version of VCarve and is selecting the project with Steve that will be used for training.

Craft Room

Sewing

• Embroidery machine is at the repair shop. At this time he should have all parts needed. The machine was sent initially without the power cord. The repair guy does repairs on location and jobs like ours on the side, so we're at the mercy of his available time and workload. In the future, I may try a different repair tech who works on domestic machines in the repair shop location. (ie, regular day job)
• The Babylock serger will be back repaired if we decide/have funds for the $400-500 repair. It needs a major system rebuilt.

Injection Molding

• Had 3 people in the class in Oct. and they seemed to enjoy it.
• Jim Kemp's First Robotic tank tread project is moving along nicely as he has molded over 8,000 treads in the last 6 weeks. He and his students are working on a funding campaign for tooling the balance of the plastic robot parts. The prototype tank is in the CNC Zone for those who would like to look at it.
• Minecraft characters are coming along and recently the ones with glow in the dark eyes have been a big hit. The eyes are molded separately and the head is machined out to fit the eyes in. They are molded from an alloy of basically a Nylon/Strontium Aluminate mix for 10-12 hour glow times.

Kiln Zone

• Pallet rack over the kilns is moved, no longer a fire hazard

Laser Zone

• Both lasers are up and running again.
• I'm thinking about increasing the usage cost from $0.20/min to $0.25/min to account for increased maintenance costs as the machines age.
  • Thoughts? Would this increase be terrible or reasonable?
  • I'm thinking it would go into effect on the first of the year.

Media Lab

• Since last meeting, the hole in the Media lab was covered with drywall and primed. Final painting will be this weekend.
• Food for thought: There has been a little talk about the 3D scanner living in the Media Lab, rather than the Fab Lab. This makes sense since it requires the nvidia GPU on the PC in the Media Lab. But it also requires space. If we had a fold out table as a place to use the 3D scanner, which door in the Media Lab would you rather it temporarily block?
• Sorry I couldn't make it, this is the only time I could vote! -Robert

Tool Crib

• The Ryobi power tools that Nate has generously loaned to the space have gone home.
• The plan is to replace them with more Milwaukee

Welding Zone

• The zone was reorganized during Potlock. Please tell us if you have any opinion about the changes, or ideas for the future of the zone.
• No classes are currently scheduled. Poke the slack channel if you want a class to happen.

Meeting Metrics

• Time completed: 8:00?
• Attendees: 19

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Attendance

1. Mark F
2. Tony S
3. Amelia M
4. Alec B
5. Arthur M
6. Mike F
7. Melissa G
8. Jody R
9. Andy L
10. Steve N
11. Vivan S
12. Derrick H
13. Aisha B
14. Greg G
15. Matt C
16. James O
17. Brian L
18. David H
19. R T

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