[Weekly Meeting] 2025-06-17

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Hello all,

Thank you for participating in our weekly meeting.  As always, here are both the link to the meeting minutes and the meeting minutes in full: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYnmmFV_fEzmYqImML7Xew5R65K9H35c603AvCvIdDU/

2025-06-17 Meeting Minutes

Call to order: 20:39 by Kevin


Attendees

  • Brandon

  • R Chard

  • Hong

  • Kevin Ya. (Sam)

  • Daniel

  • Kevin Ye. (Perry)

Past Events

  • Open Project Night (18:30, Fri 2025-06-13)

    • Brandon L. hosted.

    • Board Games

    • Michael Showed up

Upcoming Events

  • Open Project Night (18:30, Fri 2025-06-20)

    • We can make this event the repair cafe

      • We can make coffee at the cafe

    • Brandon is hosting

  • Annual meeting (later half of September)

    • Need at least 30 days of notice (bylaws 6.5)

      • (later half of August)

      • Poll scheduling to be sent out

    • Notice from G. Calendar + Discord + E-mail 

  • July Event: A water event would make sense this summer (2025-07-19, 18:00)

    • Water balloon drop

      • Could change to be sodium acetate bottles

    • Water balloon cannon

    • Water balloon trebuchet

    • Ice Projectile Event

      • Ice projectile APFSDS

      • Ice balls

    • Drone Ice Piñata

    • Ice Block Racing 

    • Factorio Ice Maker

    • Water Balloon Battleship

      • Aim water balloons across walls

      • Modify wall to be a building

    • Water Bottle Rockets

      • Constrained to vertical motion

    • Water Balloon Art

      • Throw water balloons with dye at the Pod Bay Door

      • Could use a canvas drop cloth to maximize fabric coverage

      • Coloring book style art as a stencil (would likely be abstract)

      • May or may not water balloon people as well.

    • Probably better for August

      • July works.

  • July Event Logistics

    • Water Balloon Filler (manual) R. Chard

      • Should include water balloons

    • Drop cloth (canvas)

      • Could purchase from Harbor Freight

    • Projectile Device

      • Cannon (optional)

      • Sling (would be useful for future events) (primitive technology)

      • Slingshot (to find surgical tubing)

      • Atlatl (primitive technology)

    • Coloring Agent

      • Brandon to check 

    • Food

      • Grill (Kevin (Perry) Ye.)

      • Meat (R Chard)

      • Drinks (Brandon) (Shasta branded soda)

    • Advertisement

      • Eventbrite (not sure who is in charge of the account)

      • Meetup (a given)

      • Facebook (Does anybody use this?)

      • Instagram (One member found us through this)

Section Lead Updates

  • Brandon L. (CTO)

    • Still working on the outdoor awning lights

      • Circuitry inside HAL needs work

    • Still working on low voltage system

      • Yes.

    • Screen in conference room crashing.  To hook up watchdog.  Woof.

      • Still needs to be debugged

    • Internet outage reported

      • Will try to see if router needs an update

    • Electronics room drawer is nearly inaccessible

      • Brandon to take measurements and post on discord

  • Hong (Treasurer)

    • Financial report already covered this month

    • Squiggly line down (~$200) (2 keyed or 4 general will bring us net-neutral)

Discussion Items

  • We can take down the projector on the ceiling to transfer it to mobile, outdoor use.

  • Outdoor lightbulb needs replacement

    • Now shopping for LED fixtures

    • Tried to find one from offerup

    • Outdoor light was found plugged in and buzzing “the other day”

  • Upholstery cleaner

    • OK to move to level D storage

    • Might disappear any time soon

  • How to make more money

    • “Literally art.”

    • “Literally welding.”

    • Can not go further in “Literally electronics”

    • Find + Court a mysterious benefactor that will give us money

    • Reach out to the universities

      • Bulletin boards at local college / university

        • Need approvals. 

      • Could consider a discount for students

        • More for marketing/showing that students are a target demographic.

      • Competing with library makerspace which is free.

        • They have 3D printers and laser cutter.

        • MagLab advantages would be big machines, maybe hand tools, loud stuff, Prusa XL.

    • Hold a collaborative event with local businesses

      • Cafe

      • Batting cages

      • SCAR robotics (already collaborative.  Just show up.)

      • Hold a local convention

    • Hold a child-friendly event

    • Create a business-friendly flyer and recruit members from the local industrial park

      • What kind of tools we have, etc.

      • President to ask Rosa, the flyermaster 

      • Daniel to make flyer as well 

    • Art classes

    • Sewing classes

      • Sewing cosplays

      • Sewing repairs

      • Sewing plushies

      • Harbor freight microfiber plushie

    • Repair cafe

      • The repair cafes from SGV Hack have rooms for fabrics / sewing

    • Emphasis on the benefits of the space

      • Larger amount of space to do projects compared to an apartment etc

    • Website pages

      • For Students

      • For Businesses

  • Develop a wholistic makerspace promotion system

    • Reinforce that we are not an “old boys” social club

    • Expand the community beyond the core members

    • Expand beyond the need for money, become a culture

    • Offer people a sense of belonging

    • We will continue the conversation on Discord.

  • Print Queueing

    • Could implement remote printer monitoring.

    • Kevin to implement camera for the XL.


Motion to end: R Chard, Brandon 

Meeting ended: 21:57 by Kevin Ya. (Sam)


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