Agenda for 2025-09-09

Meeting Location

Meeting was Called to Order At: 7:33pm

https://i3detroit.org/hangout and at i3Detroit

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Hybrid Meeting Etiquette

Be excellent.
Attendance and voting can be found in the #meetings slack channel.
Please show up early if you are concerned about your audio.
If there is no one waiting to speak feel free to do so at the next opportunity.
If there is someone waiting to speak, please say that you are raising your hand in the google call chat. (This will be demonstrated)
Please refrain from other side conversations, these can be distracting for the rest of the meeting and make it difficult for the chair to keep track of what's going on.
If you're in the space remember that having a single person speaking at a time is helpful for those attending online.

Introductions

What does being excellent at i3 mean

An experienced member explains what being excellent at i3 means to them

Paul A.: involves a shared communal sense of the space, everyone here is a volunteer, that means that things only get cleaned up if you volunteer as well. At the end of these meetings we like to do a little clean up, sweeping, etc., and I think that's part of being excellent as well.

Experienced Members

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New Members & Guests

Jesse Thoma, potential member: Electrical engineer by trade, but interested in woodshop and machine shop here. Maybe some welding, maybe some laser cutting. Wide-ranging interests.
Reid: second time in the space, just moved to Detroit. Was looking for somewhere with a laser cutter, but most excited about ceramics stuff.
Catherine: came into facility a few weeks ago, is actually a tool maker. Likes the idea of being able to come in and have access to the machines, submitted member paperwork and is waiting for the response.

Show and Tell

Wei - 3D printed peg box for a violin. Will be going on a new electric violin build. The thing that's special about it, is that every part is 3D printed except the metal pins holding it together (worm gears, etc.).

Old Business

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Outstanding Action Items

New Business

Upcoming Events

Volunteers to host upcoming Friday tours?
Up coming Events Calendar
Need people to teach classes.

Notes to events: 2 events are planned (Jewelry, Stop the bleed)- they are not posted yet.

Date	Event	EventBrite Link
26 Aug 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
28 Aug 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
29 Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
30 Aug 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
2 Sep 2025	Member Meeting- Political speech for Board positions	N/A
5 Sep Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
6 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
9 Sep 2025	Memberification and paperwork
9 Sep 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
11 Sep 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
12 Sep 2025	Leather Lounge Fridays	N/A
12 Sep Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
13 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
14 Sep 2025	SEMCO Board Meeting Meeting 11:30AM
14 Sep 2025	SEMCO Meeting 1 PM
13 Sep 2025	Spooky Lantern Crafting: Design, CNC, and Paint Your Own Creation!
16 Sep 2025	BOARD MEETING
19 Sep 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
20 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
20 Sep 2025	EMPUG 1 PM
23 Sep 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
24 Sep 2025	Beginner Jewelry Making
25 Sep 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
26 Sep 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
26 Sep 2025	Still Life Art 2025	N/A
27 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
27 Sep 2025	POTLOCK
3 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
4 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
7 Oct 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
9 Oct 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
10 Oct 2025	Leather Lounge Fridays	N/A
10 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
11 Oct 2025	Robot Combat
11 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
12 Oct 2025	SEMCO Board Meeting Meeting 11:30AM
12 Oct 2025	SEMCO Meeting 1 PM
14 Oct 2025	Memberification and paperwork
14 Oct 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
17 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
18 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
18 Oct 2025	EMPUG 1 PM
21 Oct 2025	BOARD MEETING
23 Oct 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
24 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
24 Oct 2025	Still Life Art 2025	N/A
25 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
31 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
11 Nov 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
25 Nov 2025	Member Meeting	N/A

Example Topic

Florian - Frank put up an intro to CNC video on the i3 youtube. Really good video, answers a lot of questions about the capabilities and set up. It doesn't cover developing gcode, but it's a pretty cool in-depth video. Wanted to tell Frank "Thanks!"
Ravi (response to Florian) - Adjunct to the training, thinks it's a great tool and would be good for the other equipment to have similar videos. Would be happy to help out if anyone wants to make something like that

Jeremy - New board members elected! Matt and Aj are our new additions to the board.

Jan - Looking at organizing a 'meet and greet'; usually when you talk to people in leadership roles, learn what they include, learn about different things you need to do to get access to stuff, etc. Haven't been able to successfully schedule one for the past couple of years, but would like to try again. It's a social thing, we could do a group food order and bring in drinks, and hang out. B. Nektar has been suggested.

Zone updates

Automotive Zone

Sid: No real updates yet for Auto Zone. We do need to do a de-cluttering of drawers, probably have an excess inventory. Not sure if other zones may want the excess items, but they'll be offered.
- In process of setting up a survey to send out to members to ask about improvements / desires for Auto Zone.

Bicycle Shop

n/a

Ceramics Zone

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Classroom

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CNC Zone

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Commons Area

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Craft Room

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Electronics Lab

Nate: wants elab to get going on construction again. Currently stuck in Pennsylvania, but elab needs help with drywall. If you'd like to help, message in the Slack (elab or expansion channels). There's a list of "To Do's" people can work on.

Fab Lab

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Glass Zone

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Infrastructure

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Injection Molding

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Jewelry Zone

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Kitchen Zone

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Laser Zone

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Leather Zone

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Machine Shop

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Media Lab

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Sewing Zone

Sewing room buildout is on SUNDAY the 14th this week, not Saturday.
Table work is the main event.

Storage Zone

Planning to have a meeting to review Storage changes / improvements / updates!
- Would anyone be interested in attending this Friday, or should I find another day?

Tool Crib

Wei: Tool Crib is starting to get going with organization and cleaning things up. Has some ideas for cleaning up tools (too many screwdrivers on display right now). Going to take some time to get going. Wants to go on record -- if you're using Tool Crib, please try to clean up and leave the space nicer than you found it. A little will go a long way.
Thomas: There were tools from welding shoved in the drawer from auto zone, making it difficult to open/close the drawer. People need to put tools back in the right place.

Vinyl Zone

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Welding Zone

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Wiki

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Wood Shop

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SIGs

MotorSports

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HAM

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Letterpress

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Robotics

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Combat Robotics

Registration for the October 11 event opens Friday September 12.

Cosplay

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i3TV

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Screen Printing

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Safety Compliance

Paul and Andrew started this up again the other week. They'll be working on things like emergency procedures (if there's a fire, if there's a medical emergency, who to call for what, etc.). They'll be having a meeting next month or potentially later this month.
This needs a wiki page created!

COWBELL

Broom Party!

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Meeting Metrics

Time completed: 8:02pm
Attendees: 15

Attendance

Chair: Jeremy
Secretary: Temporarily Aj

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