EMF Camp 2024/2024-05-06 Meeting

Roll Call: Andrew, Aaron, Gareth, Carol, Jon, Peter, Mike and Stan, Sam (in the kitchen) and Becky, James, Mark

Workshops

• Mike giving an explanation of what the Pop-up Cafe is. (Soya) milk, coffee, tea, etc. Tea urn will be purchased. We've bought 60 mugs and can sell these. Might check if there are pastries but probably too much effort (Carol has volunteered).
• Mike on "Draw your ideas for kids" - need A1 flipchart paper, useful also for making adverts / posters for workshops. Stan to help. Gareth to bring bluetooth speaker? Carol to bring random collection of audio jacks/adapters etc)
• Soldering workshop. Jason not here :(
  • Not really related but we might take the MiniPOV3 kits and give away for free / as something to solder during the workshop (maybe more advanced)
  • How many kits do we have? A lot of robots, we'll skip the SMD stuff
• Role playing
• Solargraphy
  • We got the cans, the paper, gaffa tape in the basket and scissors
  • Gareth will take a pin to make the aperture
  • There's a tv in the workshop tent and it'll be nice to show examples of what solargraphy is
  • Set attendee limit to 100
• Robots
  • Sam has all the components
  • Price of workshop set to 40 which will cover all materials comfortably
• Arduino workshop
  • Jason is discussing it with Duncan on Discord
• Tie-dyeing
  • Only Becky down to help with that at the moment. Mark will help with this workshop

Andrew to check about commitments outside of our workshops (stewarding etc)

None Workshop Stuff

• Need to ask Ian about his tent again
• Evening meals
  • Meals
    • Sam to do Friday (curry)
    • Jason might do another night (pasta?) need to check
    • Gareth might do a veggie chilli
  • Carol to bring rice cooker
  • Buy some big bags of rice
  • Do we need any fresh stuff?
    • Maybe some onions
    • Stuff out of tin (tomatoes etc)

We can probably leave the robot arena setup so people can come and fight their robots (e.g. the ones they built during the workshop). Sam suggests bringing some of the larger robots for display / chatter.

'Snackspace'

Stuff for us, and selling it to the public.

• Items
  • Oats and cereal bars for breakfasts, would be good (for us)
  • Milks of various kinds
  • Various cans of drinks
  • Instant noodles
  • Squash / cordial / iced coffee
  • Skittles, Penny Sweets, Red vines
  • Paper bags for sweets
  • Crisps
  • Peanuts

The Village

Various discussion about power and extension leads.

Gareth's projection:

• Build a sculpture out of hexagons
• Free standing
• Just north of Workshop 1 tent towards the road
• Possibly project out of Ian's tent onto the sculpture
• Gareth to bring the work projector
• Asked to buy some wood - should be fine

Bringing stuff back to the hackspace and unpacking James' van. Will need people to help unload the van upon arrival (Aaron to go down with James to help with this).

Last Meeting

Our last meeting prior to EMF Camp will be on Friday 24th at 8pm to just make sure everything is finished off.