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Time and Location
- Tuesday, December 12, 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Agenda
- Attendance: 13 members (Quorum)
- Regular items
- Quick cleanup before meeting
- Previous meeting minutes
- Accepted ad read unanimously
- New Membership
- Keeley Haftner
- Hoards broken umbrellas
- When asked if she does knife making and hydroponics she answered “probably knife making”
- Returning Members
- Exiting
- Colleen McCaw confirms end of membership but wants to come back in the future
- Colleen Miller confirms end of membership
- Finances
- James read a summary of the finances
- Profit of $2,763.83
- Expenses of $2,639.87
- Net Income of $123.39
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- We are in the black!
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- Dec 19 - James Cooper Deck Presentation
- Jan 23 - Albert La Tinkercad
- Christmas workshops
- Future Workshops
- Jan 13 or 27 Soap Making
- Feb 15 - Fusion 360
- Electronics/Arduino
- Acknowledgements
- Kurtis Claus for Color Printer and Vinyl cutter
- Chevez for cleaning Filament Bin
- Scott for editing last presentation video and expanding the store (seconded by Rylan) and taking care of the Fire Extinguishers and the contact board
- Jeff for the thickness planer, Rylan found it useful
- John for replacing the the blade on the big band saw (note it is only for wood)
- Scott for the green screen area upstairs
- Nathan for lighting for the green screen area
- Equipment maintenance
- laser cutters need flow sensors, John is working on this
- No other issues known
- New business
- Guest book
- Guests to sign on the way in as an acceptance as our waiver
- Fire Extinguishers
- Have been maintained or replaced
- One in the dirty room, one near the big laser and one upstairs on the landing
- All are powder extinguishers
- If you notice anything wrong or amiss with them please notify any board member
- New lounge area
- Both Rob (our landlord) and Michelle (our neighbor) are onboard
- Wide area of the front hallway is a open social area
- Volunteers for SPL drop-in hack night
- if anyone is interested contact Al
- Collab projects for Maker Faire
- Al is proposing two projects and is looking for helpers
- Large robot platform
- Combat robot demonstration kit
- No expectation to go to maker faire
- If interested, contact Al or thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Mentorship
- The board is organizing a program to help new members get aclimated with the space
- If interesting in helping out or have any ideas, contact thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Proposal to the board to consider the space lending of tools to the membership
- idea given is to create a “tool library” of tools willing to leave the space and a checkout system of some sort
- Rylan brought tools/did stuff
- Potters wheel and some clay. Also has a small kiln upstairs. Larger kiln on its way and will live in the back corner.
- Air nailer and nails
- Air tin snips
- Small band saw while ours is getting fixed
- Makita cordless drill
- Chop saw
- Storage bins near goliath, plans to install drop cloth to keep from filling with dust
- with Taylor, bought parts for a ball mill for the lathe
- Reorganized table with grinder wheels
- Brought to our attention that it is a safety hazard to have grinders not bolted down
- Suggested bolting them down with wing nuts so can still change/move them
- Reorganized cordless tools
- with Bob, fixed the big drill press
- 3ft power bar for dirty room and some extension cords
- with Jeff, dust collection for the thickness planer
- Al notes to be proactive in emptying the vacuum used for dust collection
- Moved his stuff to back upstairs
- Moved some peoples stuff into the community greenwall space
- drywalled Scotts room
- Rylan is missing a couple Makita batteries
- Rylan has noted that people have been breaking the rule of staying by the laser cutter when it is operating
- The laser cutter is prone to starting material on fire
- Rylan razzed Keeley for breaking the rule during the meeting
- Rylan suggested to build fire detection that could sound an alarm
- The instruction book should be updated to clarify this rule
- To reiterate, stay by the laser cutter when you are cutting
- To further the unattended operation rule, it applies to all major equipment in the space
- 3D Printers, unattended can destroy the print head and/or cause a fire
- Goliath, unexpected tool paths can do serious damage to you or the machine. ex. the spindle was recently replaced due to such an issue and cost $300
- Next Meeting - January 9, 2018
- Material policy
- Tool clean up in dirty room
- Purgatory box
- Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously