2015-02-03

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Contents

February 3rd, 2015

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Consent Agenda
  3. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
    5. Public Relations
    6. At-Large
  4. New Business
  5. Old Business
  6. Member Reports
  7. Adjournment

Minutes

Initialization

Member Attendance
  • Steven H.
  • Shaw T.
  • Geoff T.
  • Scott H.
  • Sarah S.
  • Mark C.
  • Evan D.
  • Peter R.
  • Mike B.
  • Darren B.
  • Hayley D.
  • Martin B.
Guests =
  • Michael - Interests include Maker Faire NC and Arduino
  • Richard - Museum of Life and Science
  • Bennett, Ilsa, Danny, Dick - Alamance Makers' Guild
  • Dave - Business with projects for makers
  • Brent - Mechanical engineering and hardware background
  • Doug - Designer and programming
  • Matt and family - Programmer
  • Lee

~ 15 total guests.

Consent Agenda

Officer Reports

President

Working on asking for ballroom space to be added to our lease.

Creekside and Efland Cheeks are having math and science nights coming up soon. Check out the wiki page for details. Jeff Crews asks people to continue printing bamboo pieces for the portable make erector set.

Vice-President

Working in the wood shop and happy to field questions. A monthly Raspberry Pi meetup has just started. Next meeting will include a motion sensor project. Meetings are on the third thursday of the month.

Treasurer
  • Account balances:
    • BB&T balance as of 02/03/15: $8014.58 available
    • WePay balance as of 02/03/15: $0.00
    • Square Balance as of 02/03/15: $0.00
    • Total balance as of 02/03/15: $8014.58


  • January 6th-February 3rd Income:
    • WePay - $1915
    • BB&T Deposits - $255
    • Square Deposits - $48.62
    • Total: $2218.62


  • January 6th-February 3rd Expenses:
    • UDI Rent - $1560.85
    • Rackspace-$17.35
    • Linode (webhost we moved to mid-month) - $20
    • Service Charges - $7.50
    • Total: $1605.70


  • Income - expenses = $612.92 (Yes, we are actually in the black coming into February!)
  • Maintenance fund ($181.01 + $20) = $201.01
  • Tool fund ($2738.68 + $306.46) = $3045.14

We are in the black coming into this month!!!

However! This is because multiple members paid dues in advance, one member paying for the entire year! Dues payment continues to be bad-for February- 25 out of 35 active* members have paid dues.

Also, February rent has been sent but not posted to our account yet.

Secretary

(absent)

Public Relations

(absent)

At-Large
Scott H
  • Question about CarolinaCon participation
  • Announcing "Introduction to Electronics, Sensors & Actuators" Workshop

New Business

Old Business

Guest Speakers

  • Visit from Michael Wayne about Maker Faire NC 2015
    • Contact with MakerMedia
    • MFNC's Organizing Meeting of Sat. 1/31/2015
    • News & Information
    • Splat*Space participation
    • Appeal for volunteers
    • Q&A
  • Visit from Alamance Maker's Guild:
    • Bennett Harris, Lee Atkinson, Danny Oakley, Ilsa Spaan, and Angela Parrish
    • Burlington Mini Maker Faire
    • News & Information
    • Splat*Space participation
    • Appeal for volunteers
    • Q&A


Member Reports

  • Scott H.
    • New electrical power outlet cords in meeting room completed w/gaffer's tape-downs.
    • Electronics Workzone: Computer workstation getting loaded with OS & apps, parts still getting unpacked and sorted out and organized
  • Peter R.

Found cheaper valves for the biology project. Using mini Arudino controllers with Bluetooth eliminates many wires to the valves. Only 12 volt power is required to run heaters, magnetic mixers, and valves.

  • Shaw

Looking into the wireless problems. Power cycle it. Door strikes: need to measure tonight, will order tomorrow. Dismember demo.

Guest Reports

Maker Faire NC is back!

Adjournment