2023-12-19 Meeting Minutes
Call to order: 8:34 PM by Richard L.
Attendees
David H.
Kevin Y.
Brandon L.
Richard L.
Hong
Rosa
Open Project Night (6:30 PM, Fri Dec 15th)
Brandon hosted.
It was pretty dead.
Trip to UMakers (3:00 PM, Dec 16th)
Came up with a few collab ideas.
Joint membership?
E.g. $75/mo. Half to MagLab, half to UMakers.
This is less than the general.
How about $100/mo for both?
Needs to be a mutually-beneficial price.
What does UMakers have that we don’t?
We have a lot of what they have, but their stuff is more quality. E.g. much nicer CNC. Two bigger laser cutters. Large format banner/sticker printer. (broken) CNC router.
Do they have project storage? Weird. It gets assimilated by UMakers?
Driveway working area? More constrained.
They have more internal working space.
“Probably not going to be able to go with the membership split”.
Membership changes require a bylaws update.
Likely to have better cultural affinity with UMakers than a school-associated space (too much red tape).
Is a Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation
Richard suggests pursuing until we find a hard incompatibility (legal or otherwise).
May get to it next year - Hong
Share tools?
Joint event/party?
Friendly competitions?
Roomba death fight
Cook-off
Weld-off
Trebuchet-off
“Their landlord is not friendly to shenanigans”
Maybe they can come to us then.
Learned stuff about laser cutting.
UMakers has a rotary table for their laser cutter. E.g. engrave glass tumblers.
Laser marking with Moly spray.
Got soap from their soap-making neighbor.
Open Project Night (6:30 PM, Fri Dec 22th)
Brandon hosting.
Touching Grass Pt. 3. (Sometime in January)
Interest
Kevin Y.
Richard L.
Brandon L.
Welding class part 2?
David still picking out a time. Probably August October. Not until next year
After the 4th of December? - David
David is back. Class before he’s gone?
Will know more on Friday…
BYOWelder?
A “How to basically use the mill or lathe” class?
Trent is busy… after Bantam Mill is done… after Wasteland Weekend… after readjustment to non-party life.
Richard available for super duper basically how to use the mill or lathe.
Please express interest to Richard or Trent on Discord.
Richard available for impromptu classes.
Make something as simple as a coin?
Complex as a d20?
Customizable totem (like from Inception)
BYO3Dmodel beforehand.
“👍” - Trent.
HI TRENT. WHAT’S UP?
Trent pls?
Trent u there?
How to use the new CNC mill class?
We can advertise that we have a “user friendly” CNC…
Please express interest to Richard or Trent on Discord.
Bantam mill needs tooling caddy
Bantam mill has a home
Would like 2 weeks or a month of notice to advertise.
Combine with the mill or lathe class?
Ovitt Family Community Library Maker Event (June 2024)
A change to show what makerspaces/MagLab is about.
Interested
Brandon L.
Kevin Y.
Richard
What are booth size, event specifics?
When? Where? What is it about?
Target age group.
Can we get lots of table space and power?
If it’s just handing out flyers, probably not interested.
Probably some sort of activity?
3D printing
Kind of slow.
5 printers would be quite a show, staffing permitting.
Arduino robot/rover
Pre-canned commands/movements.
Bring the Bantam?
Needs more than 3 people.
Hong is in contact with someone at the library.
Still in pre-planning.
Jun 2024 on a Sat.
Targeting all ages.
Outdoor venue.
Electrical provided.
2023-12-19: No further updates.
Shared booth with UMakers?
December Event (3:00PM - ???? Sat Dec 30th)
1.5 hrs to build?
Ideas
Gingerbread Destruction
ft. lithium battery fire resistance test
Bring all your spicy pillows.
ft. a yule goat getting set on fire.
Maybe Food
Gingerbread - Rosa on Saturday
Food
Drinks, chips, pizza, Christmas tunes, etc.
Little Caesar’s pizza - Brandon
Chips - Richard
Drinks - Rosa
Desert - Jeff F.
Pumpkin and apple pie.
Karaoke?
Advertising
Rosa to send Richard a picture and event description.
Rosa to post on Meetup.
Brandon (CTO)
Laser cutter crosshairs implemented. There is an intensity knob on the side of the laser cutter.
Everything’s connected in the server rack and the rack is locked.
Power meter needs to be connected.
Either put a cover over the server rack outlet, or move the outlet into it.
Wax seal the door with an CNC’ed aluminum seal?
David (Quartermaster)
Need to talk to Jeff about the drill bit holders.
Curator hours resumed.
Michaell (Quartermaster)
The sockets became unorganized again. Tis’ a constant battle.
Richard recommends a punishment from David’s dungeon for those who don’t put back the sockets.
The gray floor maps in the hand tools area are very dirty and hard to clean?
Can we remove them for now?
Yes, remove and set aside as an experiment with an explanatory sign.
They are comfortable to stand on.
They are hard to sweep and the edges of the mat are hard to sweep.
The floor mats were removed.
Brandon’s quality of being has improved and thinks it is easier to clean.
Kevin likes the mat-less floor.
The robot vacuum and mop that appeared.
David to reach out to the person who maybe dropped it off.
Lincoln 140 machine
Still tabled.
“Gimme til Friday” - David.
Out of medium-sized every-other-size gloves.
Kevin has ordered XL.
Bylaw amendment for Code of Conduct.
Special meeting ended with quorum 12 met.
Passes 11 to 1.
Special Meeting has its own minutes.
Sponsorship packet. (On hold because Richard is busy)
Expect a final draft to send out by the meeting of 11/21.
Richard has a final draft.
Now to find where to send these too.
Richard to CC Rosa on company list and outgoing emails.
Companies in consideration:
Monoprice
Hackaday / Supplyframe
Olympus Controls
Digikey?
Mcmaster Carr?
Send more suggestions…
Feedback is generally bad.
Cold calling is difficult.
Organizations with prior relationships are better.
Doesn’t have to be a big business.
Such a scrap materials from the woodworking neighbor?
Making event or class.
Combined fundraising/advertising.
Solicit sponsorships for an event/hackathon.
Donate materials or money.
Possibly a very big organized event.
Keep an eye out for events we can participate in.
Fundraising profit-sharing programs. (E.g. Krispy Kreme donuts or Pieology)
These tend to become us indirectly donating to ourselves.
Paid ads? - Michael
Talk to Rosa.
VoyageLA interview request.
Invite to a class? (mill/lathe/welding/laser/3D printer/etc.)
Rosa to respond back on 2023-12-20.
Motion to end: DAVID, Brandon
Meeting ended: 10:06 PM.