Whats the update on the Otto-bot?

[bill]

I want to see all these bells and whistles that mine don't got.

-b

[Jeff Crews]

I'd like to see the new stuff as well. I am wondering what would be best for my 'bot: adding the Wades first, or the Z-rider, or just Acme rods, or...? On the meeting-up front, I talked to the folks at Splatspace. If we wanted to meet there, we could, gratis. Any member can schedule group meetings there. There are options: Meet once in a while whenever something else isn't going on in the space Have regular meetings, on a schedule Either of those could also be added to the Splatspace Meetup group, which would mean that random people would know it was going on and could show up, which might be nice for getting new people involved. Or they can not be added, so it'd just be us. For my part, I'd rather make some plans for mods online among ourselves, print parts in advance, then schedule one private meeting for us and have a build/tuning party. Reach out to others, later. Those are the options for doing it at Splatspace. If there's a way that we could meet up at TSRDU instead, I'd be fine with that; it's more central, but I am still not a member. Could I get in for an event like that? I definitely want to do SOMETHING to get myself re-jazzed and energized. We're getting a critical mass of people and ought to be making awesomeness. JC --- On Wed, 2/2/11, bill <bill.cul...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Otto Hammersmith]

I opened it. :P

Apparently some of the Z stage pulleys were shipped without set screws.  Mine wasn't one of them, fortunately.  There's one more issue that I haven't looked at whether I might be affected.

I was supposed to be in Chicago this week, but the snowstorm there cancelled my meeting.  Might make time to start building as soon as I finish this other drawing project.

[Otto Hammersmith]

A MeetUp would be good, actually.  They're tremendously handy for finding all kinds of folks.

The only issue I'd have with splatspace is that, IIRC, it's a locked door with a phone # to call to get let in.  That's good for a secret society of hackers, just not particularly inviting to those not in the in crowd.

There's no reason you couldn't get into a meeting in the conf room @ TechShop.  The issue is that they end up requiring everyone to sign a waiver, which is silly for just coming to a meeting.  But any member can reserve the conference room.  I'm not sure how much longer I'll be a member, but we have a few other members, at least. 

Also, for the moment I have an office in Cary on Davis Dr. 64.  Totally not central, totally has the "locked door call someone" problem.  But I control it completely and can make use of the conference room there.

Are you saying that if it wasn't at Splatspace we couldn't use the MeetUp group?  If so, I might just pull the trigger on a meetup account of my own for Make:RDU and various other things.

I say lets go ahead and schedule a meeting for the folks we know and then figure out what we want to do ... i.e., what is the priority building stuff vs. building community.  It might be hard to do both.

I was about to suggest co-opting the Make:RDU meetings, but maybe we ought to plan on making vs. eating.  At least, until my 'bot is done.  For example, I probably could have modeled a porcupine at one of the meetings, had I not been eating a meal vs. saying I'd do it and never getting around to it. :)

[Jeff Crews]

Your "other issue" was the bad molex cables? --- On Wed, 2/2/11, Otto Hammersmith <otto.ham...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Otto Hammersmith]

Yeah I just re-read the email, I had seen the blog post, but didn't realize they emailed me about it, too.

I assume it's a workable issue.  I'm sure I have good molex splitters around and if I read it correctly, the splitter is fine just not for the power requirements of that particular board.

[Jeff Crews]

We could totally use Meetup.com for a meeting whether or not we had it at Splatspace. My comment on it re: a meeting at Splatspace was that we could use Splat's Meetup page for it, so that the followers of that page would see the meeting as well as anyone who was searching for other tags we put on it. It does seem to pull in random, non-Splatspace people when events are put up there. The last "learn to solder" meet had like 25-30 people show up, although that might not be the most conducive for us getting serious work done. I'm up for meeting "wherever." The monthly MakeRDU meetings are meet n talk fests, not work sessions, at least not so far. But we could use the MRDU framework as well. Or TSRDU. Honestly, anywhere with a roof and somewhere to plug in. Oh, and where the management won't freak out. YOU MAKE BAD SMELL! YOU GET PLASTIC IN THE SOUP! YOU SCARE CUSTOMERS! YOU LEAVE NOW! NOW!!!

--- On Wed, 2/2/11, Otto Hammersmith <otto.ham...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Drew Nelson]

As for Techshop, the conference room is currently reserved for three days in February (the 7th, 9th and the 16th), and four days in March.  Other than that it's wide open.  And we do have an inside track on reserving the room.

Cheers,
Drew

[Otto Hammersmith]

Not sure a decision has been made... what's the proposal on the table now?

Where management won't freak out eliminates TechShop. ;)

I'm up for wherever... when is a little trickier, though I didn't have to go to chicago this week, so it's easier.  I'm basically booked this weekend.  Monday and Thursday next week look best, I think.