Weekly Staff Meetings/2011-09-20

• Location: Michael's apartment
• Time: 7pm
• Attendants: David, Lionello, Paul, Felix, Min Lin, Ricky and Michael

Props

• Paul for emergency response workshop
• Ricky for Android workshop
• David, He Qi-Chen, Ricky and Rocky for Shanghai Science Fair in Fuxing Park
• Min Lin for arranging FPGA workshop and getting free FPGA board
• David for foggy hydroponic veggies

Quick Recap of last week

• Hacking Wednesday

Agenda

• Our Events
  • Wednesday meetup: Ricky & Min Lin Hackerspaces visits debriefing
  • Saturday 24th: Oil recycling workshop << all day, full in the morning
  • Sunday 25th morning: Ardublok workshop
  • Sunday 25th: Roboracing

• Events we're participating in
  • Barcamp: September 24th
  • Ben Heck Challenge, need to submit a list of ideas << lio wants to do a bamboo gokart

• Workshops
  • Android workshop is too complicated, should do more Arduino workshop (beginners and advanced)
  • Ardublock workhsop
  • Hydroponic workshop?
  • Processing classes
  • Lio's Introduction to electronics

• Hackerspace Curriculum
  • http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/XinCheJian_Curriculum

• Kits
  • 7400 series IC kits
  • Arduino Starter kits, include Nanode board instead of Arduino UNO?

• October holiday
  • are we running any programs for then?
  • who will be around?

• Projects
  • Xinchejian Forum, Lio?
  • Interactive door
  • Table making (Michael, Paul)
  • Interactive plant
  • Beconing cat
  • Solar charger
  • Lock picking research group

• Hardware
  • Nanode board
  • Element14 is offering a Texas Instrument's MSP430 LAUNCHPAD for exchange of Chinese blogging, need to find Chinese guy to do it
  • FPGA - Can we build an arcade machine around the board? might need the wood lily has :)

• Space
  • Paying rent for next 3 months??
  • Safety signs/locks
  • Safety waiver form

• Absence
  • Ricky absent from Sept. 28th to Oct. 20th
  • Min Lin absent from October 3rd th 20th
  • Ricky and Min Lin US/CAN east coast hackerspaces tour from Oct. 3rd to 10th
  • http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215213789072478647888.0004ace8c18cc12460a12&msa=0&ll=43.691708,-73.597412&spn=5.147464,11.612549

• Closing
  • wednesday meetup topics
  • TODO items