[Weekly Meeting] 2025-10-14
Secretary of MAGLab
2025-10-14 Meeting Minutes
Call to order: 20:35
Attendees
Brandon
Ben
Kevin Y (Sam)
Hong
Past Events
Open Project Night (18:30, Fri 2025-10-11)
Brandon was playing shipbreaker
Prints were being made
Projects were being worked on
Curator Hours
2 members show up regularly
JJ and company tested their submarine propulsion system
More powerful than anticipated
Flawed testing rig / possible to have another test session…
Open House Party (18:00, Sat 2025-10-11)
Brandon is hosting
Was a board game night
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Submarine team was working on propulsion system
Ben was fixing an audio-based leak detector
Upcoming Events
Quick Reminder to “seed” our meetup events: you will be there anyway.
Open Project Night + Repair Cafe + Board Game Night (18:30, Fri 2025-10-17)
Ben is hosting
Board game night planned
Lots of people are available for this night.
Repair cafe is on meetup. Please seed the meetup.
Planning to attend the Active Streets event on November 2nd. https://www.activestreets.org/
Section Lead Updates
Brandon L. (CTO)
CTO
Working on HMI
Heater pilot light lit
3d printing
Extruder on CR10S has been changed to a stronger spring
Google Accounts
Webdev email to be figured out… … …
Perry (Social Media & Webmaster)
October 10 - 20, somebody else needs to post the social media (VP is posting for now)
Hong (Treasurer)
Financial report
We are using more energy + energy rates will be going up
Previous and current members have signed up to support us
To brainstorm for grant
Ben (Vice President)
To post on insta during October 10 to 20th
We can have people designate MAG Lab as their 501(c)(3) for purchase round-up
We were part of PayPal’s donation service as well
Walmart grant submitted.
Southern California Edison grant to be seen next
Discussion Items
Solar power can be used on a heater
Discord
Do we want to enable “community” on discord?
Probably not.
Will be available through the public discord search engine
Need to do more work to set up the server
Who is everybody on discord?
To keep a spreadsheet on google drive
Shelf Clearing (for board games)
One shelf is dedicated to first-level purging for stuff on tables
We will be dedicating one shelf to board games
Marketing Kiosk
Marketing Shelf where corkboard is
“Takeable Item” for market (fidget toy, maglab logo with QR)
Tray of candy
Front Bay area on wall (the HAL wall)
Brochure, Flyers, Takeable Item, Donation Jar
BUSINESS CARDS!!!
Flyer
Pictures of past events, groups (lunar rover, repair cafe, etc), and projects
Toolbox style portable marketing kiosk
Tried to find one from offerup
Beginnings of a marketing kiosk
Maybe should be nicer than a cardboard box
Print Queueing
Could implement remote printer monitoring.
Kevin to implement camera for the XL.
Harvest leather from couches. Richard will do a leather workshop if there is supplies.
Formalize day use
Form for day use
Formalize <18
Signature form for <18
Need guardian signing on-site
Requirements for day-use, day-use handoff policy
Responsibility in terms of space belong to the keyed member
You can still submit maglab b-roll.
Meeting thumbnail
Guy at desk should be using a tool too.
Brandon is still working on it
We can seek grants again
LA County Grant takes too long to fill out before the October 1 deadline
Walmart Spark Good Local Grant (October 15)
Some grants may fit within current projects
Line following robot for both class work and event use
Welding classes / welding supplies
Solar home workshop
https://www.tricitymhs.org/our-services/community-support-programs/community-wellbeing-program
Potato sausage to be posted on social media
Motion to end: Brandon, Ben
Meeting ended: 21:16