Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20180417

Agenda for 04-17-2018

Chair: Vivian

7:34 pm

Introductions

Experienced Members

• Jody - Still the welding zone coordinator. Talk to him if interested in a class
  • Also working on classes for the glass kiln and machine shop lathe
• Tony - Board and machine shop coordinator - ask if you have questions.
• Thomas - does a bunch of woodworking.
• Vivian - President, working on creating more exiting things

New Members & Guests

• Jose Varela - Phase 2 membership ME, likes art and cosplay.
• Yasmine Abu-Soud - glassblowing sewing, drawing, some mechanics. Travel, just returned from Columbia
• Mike - Phase 2 looking to do wood shop, machine shop, welding and lasers.
• Laura - Graphic designer, working with Tanya in Jewelry
• Frank - just graduated from phase 2 today.
• Ayesha - web developer in phase 2. Laser cutting and wire jewelry.
• Marc - Software engineer, has experience with a mill and looking to get back in. Experience in robotics.
• Novella - guest of Ayesha.
• Shanlee ME working with Illustrator and graphic design, want's to do laser cuter and LED things.

Show and Tell

• Yasmine Abu-Soud - glass vase and bowl.
• Martee - Ceramic goblet, solid bronze cat, made a wax mold, sent out to foundry and then much work in finishing.
• Thomas - working on the back splash for the desk. Scaled paper screen from the laser cut lamps. Also made arches that will be filled with resin for a stained glass window look.
• Tom King - Laser engraved powder coated steel.

Old Business

• n/a

New Business

New SIG

• Proposed SIG: NOMcon 2018 (by Jody)
• Nation of Makers - slack channel, nomcom.org

Upcoming Events

• Makers Meetup
  • Last event was in Flint a couple months ago.
  • Concept from Maker Faire after party, more time to discuss things.
  • Rotating hosting of events
  • Thinking of doing the next one on May 19th in the morning.
  • Invite those from Michigan maker spaces. Any other groups we should invite?
• Tusano Open House - May 19th 3pm - 7pm
  • Bring any member projects even if not complete, show what makes i3 awesome.
  • LTU Staff and other out of state guests.
• Penguicon
  • DIY con, with a bit of everything, SciFi, DIY makers, art.
• Stitch 'N' Bitch Saturday 4-6 pm in the classroom
  • Crochet and Knitting
• Sewing workshop: make a globe pillow Sunday April 22 5-9pm (earth day)
• Embroidery overview and Q&A with Liz, Monday April 30 7-8pm
  • Overview and background
  • She'll be in town soon and can do 1:1 training.
• Bangle Class
  • Silver and Copper Bangle
  • Use rolling mill, hammer, or files to texture.

Zone updates

Bicycle Shop

• n/a

Classroom

• n/a

CNC Zone

• n/a

Commons Area

• n/a

Compute Zone

• n/a

Craft Room

• It's back!
  • Thanks to Emily for doing the walls.
  • The floor is still curing until mid May so avoid riding big wheels on it, and dragging things.
  • Embroidery machine is in for service.

Electronics Lab

• New frequency counter
  • Goes up to 18 GHz!

Fab Lab

• n/a

Graveyard

• n/a

Infrastructure

• n/a

Injection Molding

• n/a

Jewelry Zone

• n/a

Kiln Zone

• n/a

Laser Zone

• n/a

Leather Loft

• n/a

Machine Shop

• n/a

Media Lab

• n/a

Sky Zone

• n/a

Tool Crib

• n/a

Tree House

• n/a

Vinyl Zone

• n/a

Welding Zone

• New cold cut saw will be added soon.
• No more abrasive wheel of death.

Wiki

• n/a

Wood Shop

• n/a

Space Project Updates

• n/a

SIGs

i3 DetroitSat

• n/a

i3 MotorSports

• Slowly working on a refurbishment of the #3 car.
• Have a base chassis for a new car. Working on setting up suspension geometry.
• Discussions and when is good for meeting times are in slack in the motorsports channel.

HAM

• n/a

Letterpress

• n/a

Sewing

• Sewing classes as listed in upcoming events.
• Open sew on Wednesday April 25 7-10pm, combined with pattern workshop.

Meeting Metrics

• Time completed: 8:02
• Attendees: 22

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Attendance

1. Nathaniel Bezanson
2. Shanley Carlton
3. Matthew Carpenter
4. Lewis Dennison
5. Hans Erickson
6. David Henry
7. Jan Henry
8. Matt Huber
9. Paul Lee
10. Andrew Lenhart
11. James O'Dell
12. David Scholl
13. Tony Slover
14. Thomas Tufts
15. Martee Held
16. Frank La Marca
17. Tom Kim
18. Mike Scheyen
19. Laura Aronson
20. Yasmine Abu-Soud
21. Vivian Sanders
22. Jose Varela

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