Meeting #297 Agenda for May 03, 2016
Intro
Put “meeting tonight” sandwich boards outside doors 1 and 3
Ask guests to sign the guestbook
Project Updates (Show & Tell!) from Members
Member Recognition for Awesomeness
Guest & New Member introductions
Reflection
Topics
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CNC Mill Update
Safety Note: …
143 Days until Maker Faire Milwaukee!
Reminder: Maker Faire Milwaukee Planning Meeting is at 7pm, Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 (Tomorrow!)
Let’s all keep our heads, and other body parts, together
Member Topics and Announcements
Please remember to turn off the gas on the welders when you are done
Next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the UWM Union there will be a film festival, which Jake has three films in
Tuesday night is trash and housekeeping night.
Meeting Adjourns
Post Meeting Reminders
Space Tour starts immediately following meeting, meet in front lobby.
Any interested new members, see a Board Member to discuss the sign-up process.
One On One Introductions of Members to Guests
What Did We Talk About
Tomorrow is grillers night out, and Wolfgang will be bringing pizza dough, bring ingredients! Lance suggests a thread on who's bringing what…
Good luck to Rick's girlfriend on her surgery
Maker Faire is looking for area champions and makers, see Carl
Adrian is coordinating Madison Mini Maker Faire
Tom Gr. let us know that Tormach has offered us a show demo machine for 1/2 price, which we have raised. Project GO! Get your pledges in to Larry, either in person or in the donation box. Additional donations accepted to buy any bits and bobs it doesn't come with. Stay tuned for the request for help picking it up at Tormach.
We saw:
Wolfgang mentioned the coffee table from last week, made by Anne
Kathy made gears on the laser cutter with matboard that was donated to the craft lab
Lexie found out a week ago that she was contributing to the raffle at the stable, and made two sandblasted jars for sweets and treats
Lance made name tags on the laser cutters for the horses
Carl has been working on a concrete and walnut lamp, and steam bent a lampshade
Marc made steel fungus for his mom
Mark has the Taz back up and running
Steve made a watch stand for his inductive charging watch on the CNC router
Tom K. made a little bar
A rear faring for a recumbent bicycle
Jake needs to make a film for class, which had no script
Kendra showed off ornaments she has been cutting on the laser cutters
Rick assembled a cart for the space
A Singer sewing machine that's been converted to a scroll saw and used to cut quarters
Awesomeness!
Shane made a logo for Lexie
Marc thanks Jon on behalf of his wife Melanie for helping with her event this coming weekend
Jake thanks John, Wolfgang, Shane and Carl for helping with his film
Kayla thanks Carl for helping her out this morning
Steve thanks Joel for helping reconfiguring the door on the CNC area
Keith thanks Brant for taking care of the life safety checklist this month
Guest introductions
A visitor who has a new startup and is interested if the space can help
Mary and Gretchen are fashion designers, and are visiting from Milwaukee Fashion Incubator
Nick got a tour a few weeks back, went to MIAD for illustration 14 years ago. He's an urban middle school arts teacher
Josh is interested in woodworking, and other things…
Jonathan is a friend of Josh and is interested in CNC laser and 3D printing
Ash owns a print media design company, builds computers, and works part-time at the Museum of Wisconsin Art
Tyler wants to keep his landlord happy by keeing sawdust out of the carpet
A working artist hoping to work on carpentry skills