2024-08-07 Transcript

Roll Call: Aaron, Eddie, Jason, Edgar, Shane, Betty, Chris, Bob, Luke, Steve, Malcomb, Ali Maq, Gareth, Foster, Martin, Andrew

Announcements and Events

• Hack the Space day is coming up. This won't include Team Storage, as Steve and Matt have expressed interest in being there.
  • Could we look at the lights? Steve is looking at the workshop lights already. Matt is already looking at some of broken units and/or tubes.
  • Cleaning the spray booth. Filters are in Team Storage. These have been replaced recently though. We need to order some more, as there may be only one left in storage. We need to date these as they're changed.
  • Painting the airlock.
• Laser does fit in the lift! It has to be taken a part, but we may be able to start movement on that. Someone needs to check in with the buyers to ensure they're still interested. We can try to organise moving it on the same day as pick up.
• Radio meetup - there's 2m radio chat that Aaron and Jason can supervise. The team will consider putting these more public, to make them more accessible; maybe running them on an open Discord audio channel.
• Film Night. Jason suggests an outside showing for a Hackspace outting. This Friday!
• Combat Robots. A couple of events have taken place. Hoping to do more soon. There are a few streams of external events happening - maybe a Hackspace watch day?

We may want to start pulling together some accessibility tools, to make starting less intimidating.

Greenfest. Coming up soon. We'll have a stall there to promote the Space. Members can bring along projects they want to show off. We will have Hook A Duck!

There's a Light Bright project that Gareth mentioned Aaron mentioned.

Gazebo needed! We can buy one, but if any member is up for letting us use it, that'd be very useful! Nothing huge: just something that can fit a table and let volunteers hide from the weather under. Bob might have something, but nothing too sure yet.

Health and safety. Some reports of non-inducted members using tools which require an induction. Please don't do this! They require an induction for a reason: they're quite dangerous!

Open day! A family friendly day that's open for non-members. Mad scramble whilst trustees try to remember which date we suggested: 26th October! Members can even have stalls to show off their projects and sell them! Exciting!

If you have any ideas for events, reach out to the Trustees if you'd like help organising it. The wiki has details on how to do this.

Actions not too much!

Happenings The stud wall is built! Thank you Matt and Aaron.

Aaron is good with a screwdriver.

Air Quality Monitors Pledge Drive

These units will help ensuring that pollutants (like virus riddled CO2) or dust levels don't increase beyond unsafe levels.

If you're interested in your health, then you can join the pledge drive.

We're monitoring some things in Grafana. A new thing! Lots of interesting metrics. Features a hugely embarassing typo. :O The air quality monitors will add to these dashboards.

Steve and Aaron talk about something technical.

There might be a future adventure into getting these displayed in the Space.

https://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk/wiki/Air_Quality_Monitoring_Pledge_Drive

https://grafana.nottinghack.org.uk/

Metal working

Wall is a huge step forward. Next is finding an electrician.

Sam Roberts (via Discord): Just an observation here: can we check and ensure that all induciton tools without card readers are very clearly labelled as such?

Team Updates

Metalworking

Metal working course. We won't be able to run it during the summer, but Betty is still working on organising these. Likely during early October. The format of the course has changed. (I'll add more specific details shortly.)

The course will still form as an induction for the relevant machines.

Relating to other methods of induction: we don't have another method yet (as the metal working team is light on inductors). However, it is being thought about. Potentially bringing in outside people to run courses in the Space.

The forms for the college course inductions are hard to find. Can we host them on the wiki, or somewhere? Discord is difficult to search for. Yes, we're hoping to add this to the wiki and link via HMS.

Starmouse (via Discord): Just a note on Open Day, 26th October is also the Samhain Market at The Avenues.

Starmouse (via Discord): We have a gazebo that can be used, you'll need to pick it up and it may or may not have side panels.

Discord threads aren't great ways of sharing information. It's confusing who can even see them, and how long they stick around for.

Warco GH-1330 Lathe replacement parts are on their way. Quite a lag on shipping though.

Laser team

Some issues have been cleared up! We've switched to ethernet, which has cleared up some noise.

The USB connector should be removed.

The blower fan was also updated, so that could have been the issue too. Additionally, we cleared out all the files on the machine. (I don't know what this means but it sounds good.)

Something about file names. Don't rename the files? I'm unable to follow the advice. I'll seek out clarification before adding to the wiki. Ultimately: clear the files as part of normal maintenance.

The laser machine has had some maintenance. The lens has been replaced! Newer members of the laser team have been trained how to do routine maintanence.

We now log what maintenance has been done for better tracking.

Woodworking

New bandsaw is great!

Andrew notes that there's a winding handle that adds tension to the blade. Someone had unwound it too much! This causes the blade to bounce around. Lets get a label on this to explain what it is.

Andrew also recently made some wonderful flower design (sometimes octogan) magnet joiners to connect the hoover-device-thing to the machines.

Networking

A switch exploded (non-dramatically) and it's been replaced with a new one, which keeps rebooting. So another is on the way.

CNC

The CNC router is out of order. Steve is working on this. Something about nut carrying. Cool 3d printed parts to help repair it! We can replace the nut - phew! The new thing has the right hole. Please ask Steve more about this. It's all very cool - people are excited!

3D printing

The Bambu Lab A1 mini has arrived! It's set up and Benchie printed in 20 minutes. We don't have any slicer software on the nearby machines yet though. On the wiki, you can just use your computer. There's also a MicroSD slot.

There's some slicers that it doesn't work with. "Cura"? I'll figure out what slicers are supported and add them to the wiki. Bamboo studio has some luke-warm reviews from Chris, but it is alright. It's all quite simple though: "plug and play!"

DOWN WITH ENDERS. (Unless you need a bigger bed and know how to use it.)

Chris is spreading rumours of a bigger 3D printer.

Betty mentions that there's a college course for CAD design. You get Fusion 360 for a year along with it!

THE ROOM ERUPTS WITH EXCITEMENT> Strong opinions on Fusion 360.

Comms

Gareth has gotten a few of us excited about the newsletter revival. Something public facing - good for letting people know we exist. Still deciding the shape of this.

There have been previous attempts to rejuvenant this team (and newsletter), but it's easy to take on too much and getting quickly burnt out.

So, with that in mind, we want to be careful how we grow this team. Starting small, like simple social media.

Workshops

Eager for more! Let trustees know and we can help you organise it.

Classroom is back and suitable for this!

Mikes PowerBI Work

Mike's work with PowerBI. Visual reports of some data we have publically (HMS, Cacti). It includes finances, which gives a breakdown of our income and outgoings.

Hack the Space Day invitation: Mike will make some dashboards in realtime, if anyone can point to some data and wants to see it visualised.

(Visualisations lead us to see that we need members to increase contributions. Maybe just a pound? Thank you!)

https://mikehaber.co/hackspace

Financials

Available on the wiki for last month.

Nothing surprising.

Trustee Misc is a bit ambiguous. Shane'll try to break this out. Slack is quite expensive. Some routine subscription renewals.

Malcolm (via Discord): Sorry to bow out will check gazebo early next week and revert

gareth (via Discord): Thanks for minuting Shane!

Malcolm (via Discord): Add my thanks too 🙂

Red (via Discord, at Sam's comment): 100% agree, and this is something we look to address very soon.