Meeting Topics
- Stickers
- Elections
- New Members/Visitors
- Field Trips
Stickers
- We have them!
- 5 free for each member.
- $0.25 each after that for members.
- $0.50 each for non-members.
Elections
- Raiford is still hungover from P.R. and doesn't remember much and is drinking at the meeting.
- We are going to stick with the original plan for elections aka Johnathon's Plan.
- Please See the email thread on Google Groups/Mailing List.
- Elections are December TBD, December 11th at the earliest.
Pledges / New Members- Don't judge Freeside based on DANtheMAN
- New visitors:
- Mike
- Grad student @ GA Tech studying Computer Security
- Yanek
- Works at AT&T, programs, flies real planes, sails
- Jonathan
- Networking, general hacking
- Saw Creative Loafing Article
- Watson
- IT support
- Building a Cigar Box Guitar
- Builds Hot Rods
- Saw Creative Loafing Article
- Full of crazy people; can't induct any more
Field Trips- Sandy Springs 911 Center
- Sandy springs is big brother; they're watching you (srsly)
- Can stream 1080p video from squad cars over 4G
- Now know how to watch GPS on Tripp's phone
- Yanek suggests a Air Traffic Control tour
- More ideas:
- CDC
- Local gaming company
- Sparr is looking into some places
- Car place suggested by Brandon?
- BigJust asks if there's a wiki page, Raiford points out that BigJust is holding a laptop. Answer: yes.
Classes- Circuit bending w/DANtheMAN Saturday around 1ish
- dmm to give a class on intimate massages, modeled after the one given to duckie during the meeting
- Duckie looking into welding class - usually Sundays at 2pm
- Jason:
- Security class
- Not enough time, not enough help
- Volunteers needed top help out
- Reminder: any subject matter experts are welcome to teach classes; anyone is welcome at classes
- Kiki volunteering to do flyers for classes, let her know
- Should do more group projects:
- RepRap
- CNC
- Need more!
- Even just doing something from Instructables is cool
- DO MORE DOCUMENTATION AND BLOGGING!
- Sparr ordering a contraptor
- Used for creating CNC devices
- A bit over $600
- Looks like a giant erector set (Jason says it's an "erection" set) for building rapid prototyping machines
- ~4hrs to build basic CNC machine (with a dremel)
- Put a tattoo machine on it, and it will do tattoos
- Needs donations
- Currently has ~$400, with an additional $200 it will be owned by Freeside
- Raiford: Freeside can donate some money toward this if we're short
- Email Sparr if you're willing to donate
- Bring donations to the meeting 2 weeks from tonight
- Surprise unboxing after the meeting tonight
- Anonymous: "You're awesome, Sparr! Sometimes! Like right now!"
- Buddy doing a demo of some electronic thingie that sounds cool after the meeting is done
- 8-bit microcontroller
- Has onboard TCP/IP stack
- Sparr wants his table. He cleaned it off.
- Curbob is awesome and got a giant print of the Creative Loafing cover for us
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