Knox Makers Wiki - User contributions [en]

Organization

2013-03-27T15:56:29Z

Adan: /* Candidates for Removal */

==Candidates for Removal==
Clockwise from the front door:
*Server Rack - Shane's view is this is utterly unnecessary. Get cloud servers for projects. Physical hardware is hot, powersucker, dirty, takes footprint
**Inside is a projector, toolboxes, laptops, shit on top including multiple computers. We already have 4 space computers... we don't need more.
**Proposed Action: Remove server rack. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Follow through on removing computers. Recycling path has been identified. Owners wishing to retrieve donated boxes have been identified (Laz, BstrdSmkr) and boxes labeled. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Sort and, as appropriate, remove remaining items. Action Owner: [????]
*Piles of buckets and dirty rags in front of the sink
**Buckets and rags are both of great value. Present location is terrible, yes. -adan
**Proposed Action: create rag system: clear plastic bins, on new shelf system ( =near sink); clean, dirty. When clean's empty or dirty's full... clean 'em! Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: attempt to stack empty buckets under sink? Action Owner: [????]
*3+ broken coffee makers in a plastic tub
**Proposed Action: Publicly thank donor, declare our coffee needs taken care of for now (yes?), request removal. If removal does not occur in timeframe desired, dispose. Action Owner: [????]
*Lockers are wasteful of space and inefficient in use.
**Proposed Action: Thank K. for the donation, declare it tested and suboptimal. Request removal. Action Owner: [????]
*Plates / napkins / water / food storage is a mess and needs to be cleared out
**Proposed Action: Tidy up / clear out. Action Owner: [????]
*Computer desk with 2 space computers and 3 monitors need to go away (unused)
**Proposed Action: Convert to 3D printing center (was that not a semi-solid plan?) Action Owner: [????]
*Desks along the wall covered with build items for 3D printing construction.
**Proposed Action: fold the tables, store compactly. They'll be useful, just not now. Request removal / tidying of inactive printer builds. Action Owner: [????]
*2 more space computers and monitors generally unused
**Proposed Action: Request removal. Action Owner: [????]
*Workbench with piles of shit under it including 2+ ancient monitors, broken 3D printer never used, tubs of personal storage
**Proposed Action: Monitors, which have already been publicly discussed, are approved for removal. Remove using same resource as that identified for PC boxes? Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Request removal of other items. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Promptly replace with a structured storage plan, else that space will promptly be refilled. Action Owner: [????]
*Shitty table with holes in it
**Proposed Action: Discuss. That's a functional downdraft table, great for sanding without space-dusting. It's also a functional snack table. It's also, failing those functions, a superfancy folding mechanism. Chuck it if you wish, by all means, but know those functional options first. Action Owner: [????]
*Back table has piles of stuff under it... cardboard boxes empty and full of shit, old heaters, plywood scraps and stuff, boxes of bolts, electronics components
**Proposed Action: Request removal of other items. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Promptly replace with a structured storage plan, else that space will promptly be refilled. Action Owner: [????]
*Back wall... OMG where to start? Cant get to tools because of shit in front of them. Have these tools ever been used? (bandsaw, planer, miter saw etc). *Multiple cabinets of SHIT. THrow it out. Stacks of materials / scrap wood / flat panels
**There's a planer?
**Proposed Action: Improve access to these tools, which have all been used, yes. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Remove reflective panel. I began to do that, was shamed into trying to keep it for another purpose, failed partway through. Ditchit. Action Owner: [????]
*Table of machine tools not used or working (mini lathe, drill press?)
**Proposed Action: repair mini lathe. Action Owner: [Andy]
**Proposed Action: adopt/develop machine tools education program. Action Owner: [Facilities Director]
*Printer enclosure
**Proposed Action: Suggest proposed action. Action Owner: [Shane?]
*ClusterPuck project... timeline?
**Proposed Action: Ask ClusterPuck team for timeline update. Action Owner: [????]
**Proposed Action: Ask ClusterPuck team to reduce footprint of existing testbed. Remove legs / adopt downdraft table's folding mechanism / something? Action Owner: [????]

Organization

2013-03-27T15:37:34Z

Adan: /* Candidates for Removal */

ClusterPuck v1.0

2013-02-08T20:27:53Z

Adan: /* Proposed solutions */

After many crazy brainstorming sessions we have agreed on a basic plan involving a
[[#The Table|transparent table surface]] with modular [[#Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)|"smart" game elements]] and a [[#The Puck Return|puck return system]].

With this setup we can have several game modes
*'''Classic airhockey'''
*'''"Spell the word"'''- collect the needed letters before your opponent does (or co-op mode)
*'''"Pinball mode"''' - introduce gravity wells, deflection zones and puck mines.
*'''"Capture the flag"''' - get the puck to hit the flag that is bouncing from zone to zone
*...
*The number of things you can do with these smartcoins is near infinite- add ideas as you come up with them...

=Project management=

So as not to spam the GGroup with Pucktalk, we will be using the [[http://knoxmakers.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=94 forum]] to discuss the project.
This wiki will be used to maintain a "state of the plan" and provide overview.
Periodic updates will be posted to the [[https://knoxmakers.org/Group Google Group]] to keep people informed, gain insight and recruit more people to join the effort.

Here's how we're talking about doing it: Ye Olde Divide And Conquer.
We'll split it all up into modular efforts.
There'll be less need to gather all interested parties on the same day and the same time.
And by working on it as modules we'll be even more likely end up with a product that has modular upgradability and hackability.

Aim is to have a working version ready by: ?Makerfaire?

==The Table==
Adan has agreed to lead the charge with the table/surface/plenum structure design and fabrication.
The plan is to have a holes at half inch pitch (hcp).
There are some ideas to support the surface on the plenum with a pillar array that sits between the half inch pitch of the surface.

==Air Suppy/Control==
Laz and Dr. Strangegun are looking for the right fan for the job.

==Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)==
Issac has proposed a fastastically cool module that is extremely versatile and can lead to many different types of gameplay.
It consists of LED matrix display surrounded by an electromagnet to be added in modular fashion through the bottom of the plenum chamber.
These can show which "powerup" is currently active: display letters, points, gravity wells, deflection zone or puck mines; as well as interact with the pucks via the electromagnet (sensing and deflectign).

==Pucks and Mallets==

====The Problem====
To have the table be able to make the best possible use of the game elements one problem exists.
For the powerups to be collected, pucks need to be related to which mallet struck it last.
Currently the thought on how best to do this is have the puck know which mallet struck it last and communicate this to the powerup it hits via IR.
The communication aspect can probably be taken care of with IR communication, telling the puck who hit it seems to be the major challenge

The puck will need to contain:
#An embedded magnet
#The ability to know which mallet struck it last
#The ability to communicate to the ClusterPuck brains which mallet struck it last
#The ability to communicate to the ClusterPuck players which mallet struck it last
#The ability to charge while the puck is in the return chute

====Proposed solutions====
[[File:knoxpuck_magnet_pic.jpg|thumb|alt=puck with magnet|3D printed puck with KnoxMakers logo and embedded magnet]]
#Pucks will be 3D printed and Adan has already demonstrated that embedding a magnet can be easily achieved.
#IR LED in the puck, sensors in the [[#Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)|SSIDE]]
#'''No freakin' Idea'''
#Assign players a colour and use LEDs
#Several solution possible, design will have to wait till puck design is further along but likely to be with contact rings so pucks can be stacked.
[[File:Farfetched_puck_commo.jpg|thumb|alt=example farfetched idea for puck-mallet communication]]

==The Puck Return==
The planned puck return consists of a way for the pucks to be collected to a central location under the table,
a chute to bring them to the surface, charge the electronics and then fire back onto the table in a random direction.

==Da Brains==
What the brain requirements are will become clearer as the project develops.

File:Farfetched puck commo.jpg

2013-02-08T20:26:35Z

Adan:

ClusterPuck v1.0

2013-02-08T20:25:59Z

Adan: /* Proposed solutions */

After many crazy brainstorming sessions we have agreed on a basic plan involving a
[[#The Table|transparent table surface]] with modular [[#Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)|"smart" game elements]] and a [[#The Puck Return|puck return system]].

With this setup we can have several game modes
*'''Classic airhockey'''
*'''"Spell the word"'''- collect the needed letters before your opponent does (or co-op mode)
*'''"Pinball mode"''' - introduce gravity wells, deflection zones and puck mines.
*'''"Capture the flag"''' - get the puck to hit the flag that is bouncing from zone to zone
*...
*The number of things you can do with these smartcoins is near infinite- add ideas as you come up with them...

=Project management=

So as not to spam the GGroup with Pucktalk, we will be using the [[http://knoxmakers.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=94 forum]] to discuss the project.
This wiki will be used to maintain a "state of the plan" and provide overview.
Periodic updates will be posted to the [[https://knoxmakers.org/Group Google Group]] to keep people informed, gain insight and recruit more people to join the effort.

Here's how we're talking about doing it: Ye Olde Divide And Conquer.
We'll split it all up into modular efforts.
There'll be less need to gather all interested parties on the same day and the same time.
And by working on it as modules we'll be even more likely end up with a product that has modular upgradability and hackability.

Aim is to have a working version ready by: ?Makerfaire?

==The Table==
Adan has agreed to lead the charge with the table/surface/plenum structure design and fabrication.
The plan is to have a holes at half inch pitch (hcp).
There are some ideas to support the surface on the plenum with a pillar array that sits between the half inch pitch of the surface.

==Air Suppy/Control==
Laz and Dr. Strangegun are looking for the right fan for the job.

==Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)==
Issac has proposed a fastastically cool module that is extremely versatile and can lead to many different types of gameplay.
It consists of LED matrix display surrounded by an electromagnet to be added in modular fashion through the bottom of the plenum chamber.
These can show which "powerup" is currently active: display letters, points, gravity wells, deflection zone or puck mines; as well as interact with the pucks via the electromagnet (sensing and deflectign).

==Pucks and Mallets==

====The Problem====
To have the table be able to make the best possible use of the game elements one problem exists.
For the powerups to be collected, pucks need to be related to which mallet struck it last.
Currently the thought on how best to do this is have the puck know which mallet struck it last and communicate this to the powerup it hits via IR.
The communication aspect can probably be taken care of with IR communication, telling the puck who hit it seems to be the major challenge

The puck will need to contain:
#An embedded magnet
#The ability to know which mallet struck it last
#The ability to communicate to the ClusterPuck brains which mallet struck it last
#The ability to communicate to the ClusterPuck players which mallet struck it last
#The ability to charge while the puck is in the return chute

====Proposed solutions====
[[File:knoxpuck_magnet_pic.jpg|thumb|alt=puck with magnet|3D printed puck with KnoxMakers logo and embedded magnet]]
#Pucks will be 3D printed and Adan has already demonstrated that embedding a magnet can be easily achieved.
#IR LED in the puck, sensors in the [[#Smartcoin Subsurface Interactive Display Elements (SSIDE?)|SSIDE]]
#'''No freakin' Idea'''
#Assign players a colour and use LEDs
#Several solution possible, design will have to wait till puck design is further along but likely to be with contact rings so pucks can be stacked.
[[File:photo(45).jpg|thumb|alt=example farfetched idea for puck-mallet communication]]

==The Puck Return==
The planned puck return consists of a way for the pucks to be collected to a central location under the table,
a chute to bring them to the surface, charge the electronics and then fire back onto the table in a random direction.

==Da Brains==
What the brain requirements are will become clearer as the project develops.

Main Page

2013-02-06T18:07:30Z

Adan: /* Facilities */

__NOTOC__
'''Welcome to the Knox Makers Wiki!'''
''Write Access to this wiki is to only members who have an ldap login''

=About Knox Makers=
We have a good overview on our [https://knoxmakers.org/about website].

The quick way to get involved in discussions with us is to join our Google Group at [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/knoxmakers Knox Makers].

For an overview of everything on the wiki, an index page is [http://knoxmakers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:AllPages here].

==Members==
This section has some information that is useful to members and/or potential members.

[[Membership Rules]] - Here is a place to find the rules that our members are expected to follow.

[[How to Become a Member]] - An overview of the process.

[[Group Buy]] - When we have an active group buy going, this is the page we use to keep it all organized.

==Projects==
This area is for keeping track of what our members have done/are doing/are planning to do.

[[Past Projects]] - Where old projects never die, they just go to instruct others who try in the future.

[[Current Projects]] - This is what we are working on right now.

[[Future Projects]] - Ideas for things we want to do...one day.

[[List of Events]] - This is a list of the classes/presentations and other events we've had at Knox Makers.

[[Event Ideas]] - Here is a place to put ideas for classes/presentations you'd be interested in seeing in the future.

==Facilities==
This is a place to keep track of what tools/items/abilities we have in/because of our space.

[[Equipment Donations and Loans]]

[[Office of SpaceMaster pages]]

[[Space Improvements]]

==Corporate==
[[Mission Statement]] - What our purpose is.

[[Board of Directors]] - A list of our current directors and their working items.

[[Bylaws]] - The corporate organization and other major items details are covered here.

[[Officer Duties]] - A description of duties performed by the board of directors.

[[Policies and Procedures]] - A place to keep the procedures for members that we've generated to Knox Makers run smoothly.

[[Meeting Minutes|Meeting Minutes]] - A place to keep meeting minutes.

[[Files]] - Where we keep our media, publicity and other items.

Build Notes

2013-02-04T03:43:32Z

Adan:

[[File:canoeframe.jpg|200px|thumb|left|CanoeFrame]]We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to future builders of this kind of boat

- Tools that work
- Shopsmith disk sander (?" diameter)
- drum sander... need to improve it: currently just aluminum stock, abrasive-wrapped, chucked into the lathe
- table saw with featherboard
- awl/pick (piercing station molds for wiring stringers on)
- thin wire
- Tools needed
- infeed and outfeed rollers for tablesaw
- zero-clearance insert for tablesaw (cardboard over the existing insert worked in a pinch)
- bandsaw (edit: now we have one!)
- double-sided tape: hold saw guide to stem, for instance
- Processes that work
- pencil line on strongback
- didn't do taut wire, seems ok
- helps that strongback is very rigid and flat
- but: maybe would have helped avoid the swayback observed in Canoe1
- wiring stringers to station molds:
- enables single-handed stringer installation
- assists even when workers are plenty
- adhering temporary clamp-holding wedges to stringer ends
- CA glue is easy to knock loose later
- strong double-sided masking tape may serve as well
- friction tape on angle blocks could eliminate need for adhesion to stringers
- rubber band clamping stringers to stems
- enables stringer-stem adhesion without the temporary clamp-holding wedges
- install rubber bands onto stringers first, then tighten them and hold tight with a wire wrap
- lashing the ribs to stringers
- use artificial sinew: beeswax impregnated nylon, available at leather stores
- use a square lashing technique, frap clockwise then spiral clockwise up the rib to the next junction. (if that detail worries you :-)
- but: epoxy may actually be best:
-after lashing, additional sanding is very tricky, both on bare wood and after sealing the wood
-the wax from the sinew bleeds through the Dacron during the heat shrinking process
- Processes that need refinement
- assembling + adhering stem assembly
- need flat surface, nonstick (maybe bluetape)
- maybe nail in place?
- 2"x4" as station mold cleat
- adequate, but...
- could be more right-angled if tablesaw ripped to square section
- remember to note beam width amidships before cutting free of strongbacks and removing molds
- sand ALL stringers and ribs before assembly, sand smooth
- far easier to do at this point
- may reduce rib breakage during bending
- consider aggressive roundover: may reduce weight, reduce skin stress
- station molds: put the print side of the cardboard to the inside of the sandwich! Aesthetics...
- stringer cutting
- don't sweat it
- cut, then sand to shape... use motor sander?
- consider compound miter gauge?
- ribs:
- mark locations on strongback before building stringers on
- clothes steamer was adequate, may need slightly bigger tube.
- try to leave other tasks (sanding, etc.) for interstitial work during rib bending waits.
- use lashing, maybe not waxy, to hold ribs instead of zipties.
- wood finishing:
- epoxy: use only if wet look is ok, plan many coats + sanding (don't use lashing)
- other?
- Dacron attachment
- spend a little more time stretching and clamping at gunwales before fastening and shrinking.
- get better controlled irons! Arduino + PID, please
- Dacron shrinking
- ditto re. irons
- Heat 'n' Bond at ~250°F, also pre-shrink fabric there.
- Next shrink fabric at ~300°F
- Final shrink fabric at ~350°F
- Redesign/Improvement Ideas
- Build Strongback with station locations planned
- Build reusable station molds with retractable stringer hookers

Future Projects

2012-11-09T21:43:21Z

Adan: /* Adan */

This page lists our ideas for ongoing or future projects and classes. If you would like to spearhead a project, please move it under your name so that those who are interested will know who to contact.

* Lock picking
* Hardware analysis and performance tuning with Linux
* Nvidia CUDA
* CoreWars
* DIY arc welder http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-Homemade-Welder/
* Super low cost subtractive CNC machine/Laser cutter http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12713
* Glass blowing\lampwork
* Lost-wax\sand casting http://www.submarineboat.com/casting_aluminum.htm
* Beer brewing - oh yeah.
* Twin Screw Linear Motionator (Dr. Strangegun?)
*[[Vacuum Forming]]

==Adan==
* Automated window garden
* Boat Building
** [[Resources]]
** [[Build Notes]]
** [[Steam Bending Box]]
* [[Chaos Race: Sierpinski Laser Game]]
* [[Sewing for Hackers]]

== Andronicus ==
* [[Reprap]]
* [[Optical Communication in Free Space]]

== Ben Mayer ==
* Temperature control for brewing and beyond (Arduino, Local display[LCD], Remote Display [XBee, 802.11, Ethernet], data logger, timer)
* Steam Punk wireless mouse
* 3D printing, modeling, OpenSCAD

== Bstrdsmkr ==
* Kiln "modernization"

== fractalexplorer ==

*'''Near-future'''
**[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/knoxmakers/xC06WuFUinw Gakken SX-150 Analog Synth Kit]
*'''Distant future'''
** Vending machine repurpose
** antique tape deck/radio/LP cabinet w/ speakers repurpose
**M.U.G.E.N.

==Laz==
* [[Automated Smoker]]

==Shane==
* Space member presence (who's at the space, visible to members)
* Urban gardening\composting
* Projectiles
* Intro to automechanics
* Exercise for nerds

== repurposer ==

*'''Current / Ongoing'''
** [[Glasswork|Shaping Glassware]]
** [[LEI|Charlieplexing polyhedra with Arduino]]
*'''Future'''
** Cold frame automation
** 3.5" HD Ipod
** Homebrew EL wire
** Retrofitting retro stereo remote control

Files

2012-09-28T23:20:09Z

Adan:

[https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/File:Knox_Makers_business_cards.pdf Knox Makers Business Card - Matt Jordan design, September 2012]

Files

2012-09-28T23:19:33Z

Adan:

[https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/File:Knox_Makers_business_cards.pdf]

Files

2012-09-28T23:18:45Z

Adan:

[[File:knoxmakers.org/wiki/File:Knox_Makers_business_cards.pdf]]

Files

2012-09-28T23:18:19Z

Adan: Created page with "File:https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/File:Knox_Makers_business_cards.pdf"

[[File:https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/File:Knox_Makers_business_cards.pdf]]

Main Page

2012-09-28T23:18:01Z

Adan:

'''Welcome to the Knox Makers Wiki!'''
''Write Access to this wiki is to only members who have an ldap login''

Join us on Google Groups at [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/knoxmakers Knox Makers] or IRC at [irc://freenode/knoxmakers #knoxmakers] on Freenode.

An index of all wiki pages is [http://knoxmakers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:AllPages here]

[[Mission Statement]] - work in progress

[[Policies and Procedures]] - work in progress

[[:Category:Meeting Minutes|Meeting Minutes]]

[[Grand Opening Planning]]

[[Future Projects]]

[[List of Events]]

[[Event Ideas]]

[[Fundraising Ideas]]

[[Group Buy]]

[[Move-in Checklist]]

[[Equipment Donations and Loans]]

[[Files]]

File:Knox Makers business cards.pdf

2012-09-28T23:17:09Z

Adan: 2-sided business card designed by Matt Jordan in September, 2012.

2-sided business card designed by Matt Jordan in September, 2012.

Grand Opening Planning

2012-09-26T21:09:51Z

Adan: /* Flyers */

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food of any substance.
*We'll have coffee (supplied by Brad of Mojoe's)
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.
*We should have some chips and snacks of some sort.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, <s>and roughly an hour break for food</s>. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
**Presenter: Jess
**Time: 2:00 PM

*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
**Presenter: Adan
**Time: 2:30 PM

*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
**Presenter: Pete
**Time: 3:00 PM

*[[Glasswork]]
**Project/presentation involves cutting glass bottles with a torch.
**Presenter: Nathaniel
**Time: 3:30 PM

*Flint-knapping
**Presenter: James's friend (James)
**Time: 4:00 PM

*Touchtable MK-II
**Presenter: Zach
**Time: 4:30 PM

*Below items were struck from the schedule, but may still be events in the future

**<s>A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?</s>

**<s>Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat</s>
***Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

**<s>An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.</s>
***I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
***We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
***Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.

**<s>A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.</s>
***Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
***Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
***Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.

**<s>Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.</s>
***Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.

*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.
**Presenter: Everyone who is capable as needed
**Future Date: Oct 2nd

<s>*James is going to look into having some of his friends do some flint-napping demos outside.</s> (added as presentation -James)

*Synth kit build (James)

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
Our second session filled this topic out quite a bit. We still have plenty of areas that need help. Here is our brainstorming pad in very poor handwriting:

[[File:Notes 1.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 2.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 3.png|200px]]

==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
***Reddit (Jess)
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group

==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program? Need ideas/follow-up.

==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens - Laz
***EPRI - Laz
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack (West Town)
***Radioshack (Oak Ridge)
***Radioshack (Clinton Hwy)
***WoodCraft - Adan [done]
***Tandy Leather - Adan [done]
***Petsafe - Laz
***[Mike's email]
***3 Rivers Market - Adan
***Tomato Head (Mkt Sq) - Adan [done]
***MoJoe's - Adan [done]
***UT Art/Architecture bldg - Adan

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-09-20T14:17:07Z

Adan: /* Flyers */

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food of any substance.
*We'll have coffee (supplied by Brad of Mojoe's)
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.
*We should have some chips and snacks of some sort.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, <s>and roughly an hour break for food</s>. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
**Presenter: Jess
**Time: 2:00 PM

*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
**Presenter: Adan
**Time: 2:30 PM

*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
**Presenter: Pete
**Time: 3:00 PM

*[[Glasswork]]
**Project/presentation involves cutting glass bottles with a torch.
**Presenter: Nathaniel
**Time: 3:30 PM

*Flint-knapping
**Presenter: James's friend (James)
**Time: 4:00 PM

*Touchtable MK-II
**Presenter: Zach
**Time: 4:30 PM

*Below items were struck from the schedule, but may still be events in the future

**<s>A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?</s>

**<s>Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat</s>
***Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

**<s>An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.</s>
***I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
***We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
***Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.

**<s>A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.</s>
***Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
***Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
***Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.

**<s>Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.</s>
***Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.

*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.
**Presenter: Everyone who is capable as needed
**Future Date: Oct 2nd

<s>*James is going to look into having some of his friends do some flint-napping demos outside.</s> (added as presentation -James)

*Synth kit build (James)

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
Our second session filled this topic out quite a bit. We still have plenty of areas that need help. Here is our brainstorming pad in very poor handwriting:

[[File:Notes 1.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 2.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 3.png|200px]]

==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
***Reddit (Jess)
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group

==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program? Need ideas/follow-up.

==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens - Laz
***EPRI - Laz
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack (West Town)
***Radioshack (Oak Ridge)
***Radioshack (Clinton Hwy)
***WoodCraft - Adan
***Tandy Leather - Adan
***Petsafe - Laz
***[Mike's email]
***3 Rivers Market - Adan
***Tomato Head (Mkt Sq) - Adan [done]
***MoJoe's -
***UT Art/Architecture bldg - Adan

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-09-15T22:02:50Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food of any substance.
*We'll have coffee (supplied by Brad of Mojoe's)
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.
*We should have some chips and snacks of some sort.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, <s>and roughly an hour break for food</s>. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
**Presenter: Jess
**Time: 2:00 PM

*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
**Presenter: Adan
**Time: 2:30 PM

*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
**Presenter: Pete
**Time: 3:00 PM

*Glasswork
**Project/presentation involves cutting glass bottles with a torch.
**Presenter: Nathaniel
**Time: 3:30 PM

*Flint-knapping
**Presenter: James's friend (James)
**Time: 4:00 PM

*Touchtable MK-II
**Presenter: Zach
**Time: 4:30 PM

*Below items were struck from the schedule, but may still be events in the future

**<s>A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?</s>

**<s>Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat</s>
***Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

**<s>An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.</s>
***I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
***We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
***Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.

**<s>A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.</s>
***Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
***Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
***Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.

**<s>Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.</s>
***Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.

*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.
**Presenter: Everyone who is capable as needed
**Future Date: Oct 2nd

<s>*James is going to look into having some of his friends do some flint-napping demos outside.</s> (added as presentation -James)

*Synth kit build (James)

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
Our second session filled this topic out quite a bit. We still have plenty of areas that need help. Here is our brainstorming pad in very poor handwriting:

[[File:Notes 1.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 2.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 3.png|200px]]

==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
***Reddit (Jess)
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group

==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program? Need ideas/follow-up.

==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens - Laz
***EPRI - Laz
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack (West Town)
***Radioshack (Oak Ridge)
***Radioshack (Clinton Hwy)
***WoodCraft - Adan
***Tandy Leather - Adan
***Petsafe - Laz
***[Mike's email]
***3 Rivers Market - Adan
***Tomato Head (Mkt Sq) - Adan
***MoJoe's -
***UT Art/Architecture bldg - Adan

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-09-15T21:57:14Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food of any substance.
*We'll have coffee (supplied by Brad of Mojoe's)
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.
*We should have some chips and snacks of some sort.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, <s>and roughly an hour break for food</s>. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
**Presenter: Jess
**Time: 2:00 PM

*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
**Presenter: Adan
**Time: 2:30 PM

*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
**Presenter: Pete
**Time: 3:00 PM

*Glasswork
**Project/presentation involves cutting glass bottles with a torch.
**Presenter: Nathaniel
**Time: 3:30 PM

*Flint-knapping
**Presenter: James's friend (James)
**Time: 4:00 PM

*Touchtable MK-II
**Presenter: Zach
**Time: 4:30 PM

*Below items were struck from the schedule, but may still be events in the future

**<s>A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?</s>

**<s>Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat</s>
***Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

**<s>An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.</s>
***I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
***We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
***Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.

**<s>A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.</s>
***Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
***Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
***Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.

**<s>Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.</s>
***Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.

*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.
**Presenter: Everyone who is capable as needed
**Future Date: Oct 2nd

<s>*James is going to look into having some of his friends do some flint-napping demos outside.</s> (added as presentation -James)

*Synth kit build (James)

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
Our second session filled this topic out quite a bit. We still have plenty of areas that need help. Here is our brainstorming pad in very poor handwriting:

[[File:Notes 1.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 2.png|200px]]
[[File:Notes 3.png|200px]]

==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
***Reddit (Jess)
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group

==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program? Need ideas/follow-up.

==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens - Laz
***EPRI - Laz
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack (West Town)
***Radioshack (Oak Ridge)
***Radioshack (Clinton Hwy)
***WoodCraft - Adan
***Tandy Leather - Adan
***Petsafe - Laz
***[Mike's email]
***3 Rivers Market - Adan
***Tomato Head (Mkt Sq) - Adan
***MoJoe's -

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Media Package

2012-09-07T17:17:11Z

Adan:

=Links=
This section should have links to articles from national media outlets about hacker spaces and the like. The idea is to show local media the scope and state of the movement, so they can have a perspective on what we are doing.
*[http://www.raisinggeeks.com/blog/maker-movement/ Raising Geeks'] overview of the Maker Movement
* [http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/hackerspaces.html March 2009 Wired Article on hackerspaces]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041800112.html April 2009 Washington Post article on HacDC & the hackerspace movement]
* [http://www.opennasa.com/2009/08/11/hackerspaces-and-nasa August 2009 openNASA article on Hackerspaces & NASA]
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125798004542744219.html November 2009 Wall Street Journal article on the hacker(space) movement]
* [http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/11/24/hackerspaces-as-startup-incubators/ November 2011 Forbes post on hackerspaces]
* [http://www.npr.org/2010/11/12/131268511/diy-hackers-tinker-everyday-things-into-treasure November 2011 NPR Article on hackerspaces]
* [http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143401182/libraries-make-room-for-high-tech-hackerspaces NPR Article on hackerspace and library collaboration]
* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/powerofmaking/ Power of Making, Victoria and Albert Museum]. Note "About Making" section halfway down.

=Images=
*[https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iOXS75Bf3aa61eJUdezcWm0WImqa3arDJEYitSzKPT0?feat=directlink Patch design]

=Print copy - Who/what we are=
This is the place for us to collaborate on print copy verbiage about what the hackerspace movement is about and who we are. Feel free to post more than one example for each section.
==100 word blurb==
* KnoxMakers is a diverse group of enthusiastic learners and makers. Membership is open to the general public, and anyone interested in sharing a collaborative learning process is encouraged to apply. KnoxMakers is an East Tennessee MakerSpace and Hackerspace group formed from the popular global DIY movements established by Make, the same group responsible for the world's largest DIY convention MakerFaire. While many projects are focused on technology, a range of projects, workshops, and activities run the gamut from crafting with hand tools to the arts. KnoxMakers, located in Oak Ridge, allows registered members to share tools, projects, and learning experiences. (James's initial sample draft, 100 words)

==500 word summary==
* text here
==1000 word article==
* text here

=Print copy - Grand Opening=
This is the place for us to collaborate on print copy verbiage about our grand opening. Feel free to post more than one example for each section.
==Flyer Text==
* text here
==100 word blurb==
* Text Here
==500 word summary==
<code> Hacking usually has a negative connotation, but it can be used constructively. In some circles, it's a synonym for making, creating, and innovating. A hackerspace, also known as a makerspace, hacklab, or creative space, is a location where people with varied interests such as science, technology, art, craftsmanship, and computers meet to collaborate and socialize. Members of these spaces may have an interest in one or more of these topics and bring their knowledge, experience and projects to the group. In exchange, they have the opportunity to learn from others and collaborate on projects of all sorts.

This movement has come to the Knoxville area with the formation of a local makerspace, Knox Makers (http://www.knoxmakers.org). The group has been active in the area for nearly two years. In that time, the group has had dozens of workshops on topics that are as low tech as blacksmithing and making chainmail, to topics as high tech as using microprocessors for automatic digital control, or how to turn a 16 year-old rear projection screen television into a multi-touch interactive surface. The workshops are open to the public, and are usually scheduled for the first Tuesday and third Thursday of each month.

Recently, Knox Makers has opened a 1,000 square foot makerspace at 1010 Commerce Park Drive in Oak Ridge. This space gives its members a place to share tools and other resources when working on projects. Currently, the space has some basic wood and metal working tools like saws, lathes, and a mill. There are projects in development to add 3D printers, a 40-watt laser cutter, and a server rack as available resources.

Knox Makers will be hosting a grand opening event for this space on September 29, from 2-5 PM. They will be having a number of short presentations about upcoming workshops. Topics include the new Raspberry Pi Linux-based computer, canoe building, cloth dyeing, an introduction to the Arduino microcontroller, and more. There will also be demonstrations of projects currently in development at shop. This event is open to the public, anyone interested in learning more about the group is encouraged to visit them on the web.</code>

(This is only about 350 words, so it would use some filling out. Feel free to plagerize for other write ups, or maybe make some additions to fill it out a bit--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 19:30, 28 August 2012 (EDT))

==1000 word article==
* text here

=Basic facts about us that might be important to include/mention=
==Organizational Info==
*We are a chartered with the state as a non-profit organization, specifically a mutual benefit corporation.
**This means we are non-profit, which means we don't have to pay certain franchise and use taxes. However, when people refer to tax-exempt organizations, they are thinking of charities that don't pay sales tax on purchases and other things. We are not that kind of non-profit. Donations to us are NOT tax-deductible. We need to make that clear any time we solicit or accept donations, otherwise we are in violation of TN state law.
**We incorporated Jan 1, 2012.
**We have an EIN, but it's analogous to your personal SSN. We'll keep that non-public for now.
*We have not filled out any paperwork yet for FEDERAL non-profit status. In theory we have up to 3 years to do that, but we are going to take care of that before the year is out. This is the 501(c)(<number>) that people refer to. We are currently none of these.

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-07T16:57:46Z

Adan:

This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff.

Information Resources:
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/ray-way/Trail-Life/index.htm Ray Jardine's Book]: There's a copy of this in the space next to Sam's sewing machine.
-If you have any interest in hiking/camping it's great for that alone...
-...and at the end of this book there's a whole chapter on how to start machine sewing, what simple seam types to use,
-...and a bunch of simple - and not so simple - projects you can do yourself.
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/papers/sewing-tips/index.htm Ray Jardine's sewing tips]: this page has a lot of additional good information
- adan@akerworks.com - ask me anything, I'll do my best to help or direct you to a better source

Material Resources:
- [http://www.owfinc.com/ Outdoor Wilderness Fabrics]
- [http://www.joann.com/ Joann Fabrics]

== Requests: ==
1. Please post the Backpacking book references, Adan. Done!--[[User:Adan|Adan]] 12:55, 7 September 2012 (EDT)

= Emails: =

== Review of Session: ==

Jeff Nichols, Posted to email group on Sept 5, 2012.

After last night's class, I'm interested in sewing for the first time. So interested that I'm bidding on an old, all-metal Singer Industrial Sewing Machine like the one Keith has. Keith had the machine with him last night. They were made in the 1950s. It can sew leather! Today I also bought the service manual for an old Singer that we have in order to try to repair it. (A part was broken when it was being refurbished; it's worked erratically since.)

The idea of making one's own lightweight, hiking equipment was a great motivation. Adan sewed his own lightweight backpack which he had with him last night. It is 12 years old, but still looks great. (Finding out that we have an AT Through-Hiker in our midst was also interesting. My daughter was saying afterwards that she wants to hike the AT someday.)

The class had several of us sitting around the table with experts around teaching us how to thread the machine and uncovering the mysteries surrounding bobbins. I'd always thought the machines worked a different way than they do. Afterwards we learned about tearing out stitches (by first doing it the wrong way). Some tried their hands at repairing some items. Much knowledge and sewing wisdom was exchanged. My wife, who has sewed for 30+ years, learned some things last night.

Adan started a wiki page at https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/Sewing_for_Hackers.

We had a couple visitors, Ed and Debbie, come in who were guests of Andy. Ed is a co-worker. They plan to return for the Grand Opening later this month.

== Followup Ideas Combining Sewing, Leather, and Laser Cutters ==

Thanks for the report!

Sewing leather is an interesting prospect for sure. Combined with the
laser cutter, and drawing upon the leather working skills of those in
our midst, one could conceive of some pretty cool projects.

Last weekend Syd and I went to Muddy pond which is a Mennonite
community over near Cookville. There is a leather / tac store there,
and we scooped up a huge bag of leather (some pretty large scraps) for
$12. You can get tanned hides (mostly bull and buffalo) in various
thicknesses and sizes and in an array of colors for incredibly
reasonable prices (e.g. $8 - 12 for ~10 sq. feet, etc.) The are also
things such as leather belts for $10, harness leather, etc. The place
is a gem.

Also for sewing project ideas there are some cool youtube videos for
threadbangers - some Steampunk and other ideas, etc.

Pete

== Leather and Lasers and Sewing Machine in the Space ==

Times like this (and a thousand others/day) I'm glad I'm just vegetarian, not vegan. Leather as a material remains unequaled. I love the idea of laser cutting it, especially using the laser to cut (and sear!) holes to save awl time/pain and tearing. You could also perforate for flexibility, ventilate for breathing, etc.

Definitely, thanks so much for the report, Jeff. I was delighted people had a good time and learned a little too. That's awesome that you're sourcing a 'real' sewing machine! Keith's is a way more serious beast than mine.

Oh, and let's make sure the record's clear: Keith was the AT thru-hiker, not I! Someday, I still say, someday I'll do it. Or at least the GSM portion. That's most of it, right?

Here's lookin' to the next sewing event... but don't wait until then if you're curious: Sam has very generously left his machine in the Space (marked with a big "WORKS" post-it), and it's indeed fully functional. Bring some fabric, sew it together, feel free to ask me or one of last night's new experts for a hand if you're not completely certain.

Adan

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-07T16:56:39Z

Adan:

This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff.

Information Resources:
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/ray-way/Trail-Life/index.htm Ray Jardine's Book]: There's a copy of this in the space next to Sam's sewing machine. If you have any interest in hiking/camping it's great for that alone... but at the end of this book there's a whole chapter on how to start machine sewing, what simple seam types to use, and a bunch of simple - and not so simple - projects you can do yourself.
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/papers/sewing-tips/index.htm Ray Jardine's sewing tips]: this page has a lot of additional good information
- adan@akerworks.com - ask me anything, I'll do my best to help or direct you to a better source

Material Resources:
- [http://www.owfinc.com/ Outdoor Wilderness Fabrics]
- [http://www.joann.com/ Joann Fabrics]

== Requests: ==
1. Please post the Backpacking book references, Adan. Done!--[[User:Adan|Adan]] 12:55, 7 September 2012 (EDT)

= Emails: =

== Review of Session: ==

Jeff Nichols, Posted to email group on Sept 5, 2012.

After last night's class, I'm interested in sewing for the first time. So interested that I'm bidding on an old, all-metal Singer Industrial Sewing Machine like the one Keith has. Keith had the machine with him last night. They were made in the 1950s. It can sew leather! Today I also bought the service manual for an old Singer that we have in order to try to repair it. (A part was broken when it was being refurbished; it's worked erratically since.)

The idea of making one's own lightweight, hiking equipment was a great motivation. Adan sewed his own lightweight backpack which he had with him last night. It is 12 years old, but still looks great. (Finding out that we have an AT Through-Hiker in our midst was also interesting. My daughter was saying afterwards that she wants to hike the AT someday.)

The class had several of us sitting around the table with experts around teaching us how to thread the machine and uncovering the mysteries surrounding bobbins. I'd always thought the machines worked a different way than they do. Afterwards we learned about tearing out stitches (by first doing it the wrong way). Some tried their hands at repairing some items. Much knowledge and sewing wisdom was exchanged. My wife, who has sewed for 30+ years, learned some things last night.

Adan started a wiki page at https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/Sewing_for_Hackers.

We had a couple visitors, Ed and Debbie, come in who were guests of Andy. Ed is a co-worker. They plan to return for the Grand Opening later this month.

== Followup Ideas Combining Sewing, Leather, and Laser Cutters ==

Thanks for the report!

Sewing leather is an interesting prospect for sure. Combined with the
laser cutter, and drawing upon the leather working skills of those in
our midst, one could conceive of some pretty cool projects.

Last weekend Syd and I went to Muddy pond which is a Mennonite
community over near Cookville. There is a leather / tac store there,
and we scooped up a huge bag of leather (some pretty large scraps) for
$12. You can get tanned hides (mostly bull and buffalo) in various
thicknesses and sizes and in an array of colors for incredibly
reasonable prices (e.g. $8 - 12 for ~10 sq. feet, etc.) The are also
things such as leather belts for $10, harness leather, etc. The place
is a gem.

Also for sewing project ideas there are some cool youtube videos for
threadbangers - some Steampunk and other ideas, etc.

Pete

== Leather and Lasers and Sewing Machine in the Space ==

Times like this (and a thousand others/day) I'm glad I'm just vegetarian, not vegan. Leather as a material remains unequaled. I love the idea of laser cutting it, especially using the laser to cut (and sear!) holes to save awl time/pain and tearing. You could also perforate for flexibility, ventilate for breathing, etc.

Definitely, thanks so much for the report, Jeff. I was delighted people had a good time and learned a little too. That's awesome that you're sourcing a 'real' sewing machine! Keith's is a way more serious beast than mine.

Oh, and let's make sure the record's clear: Keith was the AT thru-hiker, not I! Someday, I still say, someday I'll do it. Or at least the GSM portion. That's most of it, right?

Here's lookin' to the next sewing event... but don't wait until then if you're curious: Sam has very generously left his machine in the Space (marked with a big "WORKS" post-it), and it's indeed fully functional. Bring some fabric, sew it together, feel free to ask me or one of last night's new experts for a hand if you're not completely certain.

Adan

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-07T16:55:24Z

Adan:

This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff.

Information Resources:
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/ray-way/Trail-Life/index.htm Ray Jardine's Book]: If you have any interest in hiking/camping it's great for that alone... but at the end of this book there's a whole chapter on how to start machine sewing, what simple seam types to use, and a bunch of simple - and not so simple - projects you can do yourself.
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/papers/sewing-tips/index.htm Ray Jardine's sewing tips]: this page has a lot of additional good information
- adan@akerworks.com - ask me anything, I'll do my best to help or direct you to a better source

Material Resources:
- [http://www.owfinc.com/ Outdoor Wilderness Fabrics]
- [http://www.joann.com/ Joann Fabrics]

== Requests: ==
1. Please post the Backpacking book references, Adan. Done!--[[User:Adan|Adan]] 12:55, 7 September 2012 (EDT)

= Emails: =

== Review of Session: ==

Jeff Nichols, Posted to email group on Sept 5, 2012.

After last night's class, I'm interested in sewing for the first time. So interested that I'm bidding on an old, all-metal Singer Industrial Sewing Machine like the one Keith has. Keith had the machine with him last night. They were made in the 1950s. It can sew leather! Today I also bought the service manual for an old Singer that we have in order to try to repair it. (A part was broken when it was being refurbished; it's worked erratically since.)

The idea of making one's own lightweight, hiking equipment was a great motivation. Adan sewed his own lightweight backpack which he had with him last night. It is 12 years old, but still looks great. (Finding out that we have an AT Through-Hiker in our midst was also interesting. My daughter was saying afterwards that she wants to hike the AT someday.)

The class had several of us sitting around the table with experts around teaching us how to thread the machine and uncovering the mysteries surrounding bobbins. I'd always thought the machines worked a different way than they do. Afterwards we learned about tearing out stitches (by first doing it the wrong way). Some tried their hands at repairing some items. Much knowledge and sewing wisdom was exchanged. My wife, who has sewed for 30+ years, learned some things last night.

Adan started a wiki page at https://knoxmakers.org/wiki/Sewing_for_Hackers.

We had a couple visitors, Ed and Debbie, come in who were guests of Andy. Ed is a co-worker. They plan to return for the Grand Opening later this month.

== Followup Ideas Combining Sewing, Leather, and Laser Cutters ==

Thanks for the report!

Sewing leather is an interesting prospect for sure. Combined with the
laser cutter, and drawing upon the leather working skills of those in
our midst, one could conceive of some pretty cool projects.

Last weekend Syd and I went to Muddy pond which is a Mennonite
community over near Cookville. There is a leather / tac store there,
and we scooped up a huge bag of leather (some pretty large scraps) for
$12. You can get tanned hides (mostly bull and buffalo) in various
thicknesses and sizes and in an array of colors for incredibly
reasonable prices (e.g. $8 - 12 for ~10 sq. feet, etc.) The are also
things such as leather belts for $10, harness leather, etc. The place
is a gem.

Also for sewing project ideas there are some cool youtube videos for
threadbangers - some Steampunk and other ideas, etc.

Pete

== Leather and Lasers and Sewing Machine in the Space ==

Times like this (and a thousand others/day) I'm glad I'm just vegetarian, not vegan. Leather as a material remains unequaled. I love the idea of laser cutting it, especially using the laser to cut (and sear!) holes to save awl time/pain and tearing. You could also perforate for flexibility, ventilate for breathing, etc.

Definitely, thanks so much for the report, Jeff. I was delighted people had a good time and learned a little too. That's awesome that you're sourcing a 'real' sewing machine! Keith's is a way more serious beast than mine.

Oh, and let's make sure the record's clear: Keith was the AT thru-hiker, not I! Someday, I still say, someday I'll do it. Or at least the GSM portion. That's most of it, right?

Here's lookin' to the next sewing event... but don't wait until then if you're curious: Sam has very generously left his machine in the Space (marked with a big "WORKS" post-it), and it's indeed fully functional. Bring some fabric, sew it together, feel free to ask me or one of last night's new experts for a hand if you're not completely certain.

Adan

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-04T21:07:42Z

Adan:

This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff.

Information Resources:
- [http://www.rayjardine.com/papers/sewing-tips/index.htm Ray Jardine's sewing tips]
- adan@akerworks.com - ask me anything, I'll do my best to help or direct you to a better source

Material Resources:
- [http://www.owfinc.com/ Outdoor Wilderness Fabrics]
- [http://www.joann.com/ Joann Fabrics]

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-04T21:07:16Z

Adan:

Sewing for Hackers

2012-09-04T21:02:29Z

Adan: Created page with "Sewing for Hackers: This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff. Information Resources: Material Resou..."

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This page is dedicated to a list of resources for people interested in sewing as a means of assembling awesome stuff.

Information Resources:

Material Resources:

Future Projects

2012-09-04T21:00:02Z

Adan:

This page lists our ideas for ongoing or future projects and classes. If you would like to spearhead a project, please move it under your name so that those who are interested will know who to contact.

* Lock picking
* Hardware analysis and performance tuning with Linux
* Nvidia CUDA
* CoreWars
* Urban gardening\composting
* DIY arc welder http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-Homemade-Welder/
* Super low cost subtractive CNC machine/Laser cutter http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12713
* Glass blowing\lampwork
* Lost-wax\sand casting http://www.submarineboat.com/casting_aluminum.htm
* Beer brewing - oh yeah.
* Twin Screw Linear Motionator (Dr. Strangegun?)
*[[Vacuum Forming]]

==Adan==
* Automated window garden
* Boat Building
** [[Build Notes]]
** [[Steam Bending Box]]
* [[Chaos Race: Sierpinski Laser Game]]
* [[Sewing for Hackers]]

== Andronicus ==
* [[Reprap]]
* [[Optical Communication in Free Space]]

== Ben Mayer ==
* Temperature control for brewing and beyond (Arduino, Local display[LCD], Remote Display [XBee, 802.11, Ethernet], data logger, timer)
* Steam Punk wireless mouse
* 3D printing, modeling, OpenSCAD

== Bstrdsmkr ==
* Kiln "modernization"

== fractalexplorer ==

*'''Near-future'''
**[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/knoxmakers/xC06WuFUinw Gakken SX-150 Analog Synth Kit]
*'''Distant future'''
** Vending machine repurpose
** antique tape deck/radio/LP cabinet w/ speakers repurpose
**M.U.G.E.N.

==Laz==
* [[Automated Smoker]]

Build Notes

2012-09-03T19:33:09Z

Adan:

[[File:canoeframe.jpg|200px|thumb|left|CanoeFrame]]We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to future builders of this kind of boat

- Tools that work
- Shopsmith disk sander (?" diameter)
- drum sander... need to improve it: currently just aluminum stock, abrasive-wrapped, chucked into the lathe
- table saw with featherboard
- awl/pick (piercing station molds for wiring stringers on)
- thin wire
- Tools needed
- infeed and outfeed rollers for tablesaw
- zero-clearance insert for tablesaw
- bandsaw (edit: now we have one!)
- double-sided tape: hold saw guide to stem, for instance
- Processes that work
- pencil line on strongback
- didn't do taut wire, seems ok
- helps that strongback is very rigid and flat
- but: maybe would have helped avoid the swayback observed in Canoe1
- wiring stringers to station molds:
- enables single-handed stringer installation
- assists even when workers are plenty
- adhering temporary clamp-holding wedges to stringer ends
- CA glue is easy to knock loose later
- strong double-sided masking tape may serve as well
- friction tape on angle blocks could eliminate need for adhesion to stringers
- lashing the ribs to stringers
- use artificial sinew: beeswax impregnated nylon, available at leather stores
- use a square lashing technique, frap clockwise then spiral clockwise up the rib to the next junction. (if that detail worries you :-)
- but: epoxy may actually be best:
-after lashing, additional sanding is very tricky, both on bare wood and after sealing the wood
-the wax from the sinew bleeds through the Dacron during the heat shrinking process
- Processes that need refinement
- assembling + adhering stem assembly
- need flat surface, nonstick (maybe bluetape)
- maybe nail in place?
- 2"x4" as station mold cleat
- adequate, but...
- could be more right-angled if tablesaw ripped to square section
- remember to note beam width amidships before cutting free of strongbacks and removing molds
- sand ALL stringers and ribs before assembly, sand smooth
- far easier to do at this point
- may reduce rib breakage during bending
- consider aggressive roundover: may reduce weight, reduce skin stress
- station molds: put the print side of the cardboard to the inside of the sandwich! Aesthetics...
- stringer cutting
- don't sweat it
- cut, then sand to shape... use motor sander?
- consider compound miter gauge?
- ribs:
- mark locations on strongback before building stringers on
- clothes steamer was adequate, may need slightly bigger tube.
- try to leave other tasks (sanding, etc.) for interstitial work during rib bending waits.
- use lashing, maybe not waxy, to hold ribs instead of zipties.
- wood finishing:
- epoxy: use only if wet look is ok, plan many coats + sanding (don't use lashing)
- other?
- Dacron attachment
- spend a little more time stretching and clamping at gunwales before fastening and shrinking.
- get better controlled irons! Arduino + PID, please
- Dacron shrinking
- ditto re. irons
- Heat 'n' Bond at ~250°F, also pre-shrink fabric there.
- Next shrink fabric at ~300°F
- Final shrink fabric at ~350°F
- Redesign/Improvement Ideas
- Build Strongback with station locations planned
- Build reusable station molds with retractable stringer hookers

Media Package

2012-08-28T17:39:36Z

Adan:

Media Package

2012-08-28T17:39:22Z

Adan:

Media Package

2012-08-28T17:38:09Z

Adan:

Media Package

2012-08-28T17:36:51Z

Adan:

Grand Opening Planning

2012-08-28T00:22:23Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food of any substance.
*We'll have coffee (supplied by Brad of Mojoe's)
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.
*We should have some chips and snacks of some sort.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, and roughly an hour break for food. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.
**I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
**We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
**Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
*A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.
**Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
**Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
**Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.
*Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.
**Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.
*A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?
*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
*Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat
**Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.
*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
We didn't do quite as much brainstorming here, but here is what we have:
==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group
==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program
==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens
***EPRI
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack?
***WoodCraft
***Tandy Leather
***Petsafe
***[Mike's email]
***3 Rivers Market

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-08-27T23:56:24Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food.
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, and roughly an hour break for food. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.
**I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
**We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
**Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
*A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.
**Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
**Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
**Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.
*Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.
**Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.
*A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?
*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
*Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat
**Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.
*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
We didn't do quite as much brainstorming here, but here is what we have:
==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage: shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
***keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Groups
***Knox Area Robotics
***Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Adan)
**Print
***MetroPulse (Adan)
***News Sentinel (Adan)
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group
==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program
==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens
***EPRI
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack?

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-08-27T23:49:46Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food.
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, and roughly an hour break for food. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.
**I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
**We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
**Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
*A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.
**Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
**Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
**Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.
*Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.
**Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.
*A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?
*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
*Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat
**Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.
*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
We didn't do quite as much brainstorming here, but here is what we have:
==Media==
*General:
**organize/manage
***shared Google doc (Andy to set up)
****keep media contact info out of public area.
**press release/media package
***list of articles wiki
****every major media link to hackerspaces/makerspaces
***Google Group Post
***Print copy
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Print
***MetroPulse
***News Sentinel
***Oak Ridger
***Farragut
***Nuts n Volts
**Radio (Sam)
***WUTK
***WUOT
***WDVX
***WFIV
***WUOT
**TV (Sam)
***ABC6
***CBS8
***NBC10
**Web
***Make
***HaD
***Craigslist
**Social
***FBook
***Twitter
***Google Group
==Posters==
1-2 posters, potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program
==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens
***EPRI
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack?

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-08-27T23:25:20Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm

=Menu=
*Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food.
*We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, and roughly an hour break for food. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.
**I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
**We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
**Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
*A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.
**Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
**Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
**Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.
*Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.
**Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.
*A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?
*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
*Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat
**Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.
*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
We didn't do quite as much brainstorming here, but here is what we have:
==Media==
*General:
**press release
**personalized artifact 3D print?
*Outlet types
**Print
**Radio
**TV
**Social
***FBook
***Twitta
***Google Group
==Posters==
1-2 posters
potentially print some with Repurposer's plotter maintenance program
==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**Plan to distibute 50-75 color flyers
**Plan to distribute ?? b/w flyers (James)
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Roadside signs (if legal: Sam inquiry)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens
***EPRI
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack?

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Grand Opening Planning

2012-08-27T23:02:46Z

Adan:

=Legal and Other=
*Will we need an event permit or other legal permission to host the event? Research needed.

=Date and Time=
*Date set as September 29
*Time proposed as 2-5pm
**Without a reliable attendee estimate, we are uncomfortable planning to serve food.
**We will have water and other drinks on hand. Request members volunteer to bring coolers & ice.

=Menu=
*Grilling burgers and dogs for quick/easy production
*Need some vegetarian/celiac friendly options

=Events=
We had tons of great brainstorming about events. We had thought of having about 6 twenty minutes talks. That would leave about 10 minutes for Q&A, presentation switch over, etc. That would be about 3 hours of presentation, and roughly an hour break for food. We really like the idea of letting people make/participate as much as possible. Best case ideas let people do things in the space. The next best thing would be to give people project instructions that they can take home. A fantastic idea was to connect our short presentations to a longer event already scheduled at one of our public meetings. We give them a tease, then encourage them to come back by showing them that the full presentation is on the calendar. This should do a great job of helping to bring people back to the space.

==Ideas for potential 20 minute presentations/teasers==
*An Arduino-based presentation that would show some of the projects our members have already completed with Arduinos as well as show some great Arduino projects we know about on the internet. We would need someone to volunteer to develop/lead this seminar.
**I could get my PID controller demo put back together as a live demo.
**We should schedule another "Getting started with Arduino" class for later in the year to refer this session to.
**Maybe include other boards like the makey-makey.
*A raspberry pi presentation. We would need someone with a raspi to take point on this one and develop this talk.
**Ideally, we could develop this into a longer presentation to put on the calendar to let us dig in deeper (and encourage attendees to return).
*A KMBI presentation. Adan has volunteered to lead/present this presentation.
**Include a recap of the boat building process.
**Perhaps have some sort of scale demo to show off part of the process.
**Hopefully have another boat in the queue and invite attendees back to one of the working sessions.
*A presentation on dyeing cloth. I would volunteer to lead this presentation.
**Show the process for making the acoustic panels.
**Explain/demo the cloth dyeing process. It's possible that if I did this early enough that by the end the cloth would be rinsed well enough to hold up and show off.
**Schedule a "Saturday Session" for a dyeing class to invite attendees back to.
*Have a session where we get people to assemble a cornhole board.
**Perhaps also have a session or workstation set up to let people sew their own cornhole bags. Bonus points if we can set up a screen-printing item so that we can let people make cornhole bags and put the knox makers logo on them.
*A demo on robots. Perhaps we can reach out to the knox area robotics guys to do a presentation?
*Library Injection
**Let's have some hacking! Demonstrate how you can intercept library calls from proprietary software and redirect them. Also show multiple examples of tools which used library interposition as their underlying method of operation. (RelativePrime)
*Cracking password hashes with oclHashcat
**Explain how hashing algorithms work and are implemented in authentication schemes, and how such can be cracked with CPU / GPU based systems.

==Ideas for potential all-day demos==
*If the 3D printer is ready, have it be printing something as a demo.
*Have the vacuum forming equipment set up and prepared for kids to make a few masks.
**Have Oct. 2 be a plaster mold making class, where we make some more molds to take to ATL MMF. Invite folks back for that.

==Awesome stretch project ideas==
*<s>M.U.G.E.N. - James is going to look into the possibility of doing some green-screen work to get be able to put pictures of attendees into a 2-d fighting game. (edit 8/24/12, James: http://www.elecbyte.com/mugen It will take me awhile to figure this one out, after taking a closer look. I doubt I'd have anything by the Grand Opening. If anyone has experience with M.U.G.E.N. or similar, though..)</s> We'll come back to this one at a later time. Still a great idea. --[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:13, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
*DIY Air-hockey table - Mike is going to look into the feasibility of a DIY air hockey table.
*Rubens Tube - Issac is going to bring a Rubens tube to see if we can get it working safely enough to set up as a possible demo. Use the function generators to show some awesome waves.

=Publicity=
We didn't do quite as much brainstorming here, but here is what we have:
==Flyers==
Issac/James were going to look at making some drafts to review at the next session. Feel free to contact them if you're interested in helping.
*A flyer to advertise the Grand Opening Event itself.
**It should give some indication of who we are, what hackerspaces are about, and indicate the sessions we have planned.
**Format: perhaps it should be bigger than 8.5x11
*Posting Locations:--[[User:Laz|Laz]] 23:46, 26 August 2012 (EDT)
**Local Technical Employers
***Siemens
***EPRI
**Schools
***UT
***PSCC
**Local Businesses
***Shield's Electronics
***Radioshack?

*Event flyers to hand out at the presentations/teasers to advertise the full meeting event tied to the presentation
**Each of these event level flyers should have a small box with our full planned calendar with other events. (This means planning out the calendar for the next few months in advance)

==Advertising==
*We need to at least be in the free events calendars in the local papers:
**Metropulse
**Sentinel
**Oak Ridger?
*We need to prepare an article for makerspace happenings and/or make blog. Example: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/22/port-city-makerspace-grand-opening/
*We should try to reach out and make contact with Metropulse to see if we can interest them in a story on the maker movement and/or our space.
*We should reach out to other groups that might have a collection of nerdy types:
**Entrepreneurs of Knoxville (Originally the guys who wanted a techshop in knoxville)
**Knox Area Robotics Club

Physical Resources

2012-08-24T01:17:32Z

Adan:

Here are some resources that people have brought to the space for sharing:

* [[fractalexplorer]]:
** Truck that can sometimes transport transportables including humans
** vending machine
** tape deck/radio/record player cabinet
** various basic tools
** a JC Penney Methuselah of a Dremmel knock-off
** old table-mount sanding/griding base and mechanism sans belt and electromechanical "what makes it go"
** batteries, cables, various etceteras
** CASIO CTK-810
** HMP-288 MIDI keyboard (for circuit-bending?)
** Fox Valley timing light
** USB and adapter trinkets of handiness +1, casts "permanent aura of fear of offbrand malfunction"
** Duracraft ceramic heater
** various clearance items at Tractor Supply
** assortment of special tools when needed (offsite)
** web hosting space for testing/tinkering projects

* Laz: Garage space for projects, an reasonably complete set of mechanics tools with pneumatic tools, saws and some other woodworking tools

Build Notes

2012-08-21T18:11:52Z

Adan:

File:Canoeframe.jpg

2012-08-21T18:11:03Z

Adan:

Build Notes

2012-08-21T18:10:34Z

Adan:

[[File:canoeframe.jpg]]We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to future builders of this kind of boat

- Tools that work
- Shopsmith disk sander (?" diameter)
- drum sander... need to improve it: currently just aluminum stock, abrasive-wrapped, chucked into the lathe
- table saw with featherboard
- awl/pick (piercing station molds for wiring stringers on)
- thin wire
- Tools needed
- infeed and outfeed rollers for tablesaw
- zero-clearance insert for tablesaw
- bandsaw
- Processes that work
- pencil line on strongback
- didn't do taut wire, seems ok so far
- helps that strongback is very rigid and flat
- wiring stringers to station molds:
- enables single-handed stringer installation
- assists even when workers are plenty
- adhering temporary clamp-holding wedges to stringer ends
- CA glue is easy to knock loose later
- strong double-sided masking tape may serve as well
- friction tape on angle blocks could eliminate need for adhesion to stringers
- lashing the ribs to stringers
- use artificial sinew: beeswax impregnated nylon, available at leather stores
- use a square lashing technique, frap clockwise then spiral clockwise up the rib to the next junction. (if that detail worries you :-)
- Processes that need refinement
- assembling + adhering stem assembly
- need flat surface, nonstick (maybe bluetape)
- maybe nail in place?
- 2"x4" as station mold cleat
- adequate, but...
- could be more right-angled if ripped to square section
- simple lever/bender to clamp stringers to stem
- Redesign/Improvement Ideas
- Build Strongback with station locations planned
- Build reusable station molds with retractable stringer hookers

Chaos Race: Sierpinski Laser Game

2012-08-18T14:54:20Z

Adan: Created page with "This is an interactive Sierpinski idea, maybe fun for the kids: The Chaos Race. Develops understanding of the Sierpinski Triangle algorithm, spatial estimation skills, hand/eye ..."

This is an interactive Sierpinski idea, maybe fun for the kids: The Chaos Race.

Develops understanding of the Sierpinski Triangle algorithm, spatial estimation skills, hand/eye coordination.

Projected on the wall is a playing zone... that's where you'll build your triangle. But you'll be graded on accuracy and speed.
-'''the hardware''': a computer, a projector, and a webcam.
-'''your weapon''': a laser pointer, maybe with a wrist mount and cool trigger mechanism to make you feel like a superhero.
-'''the beginning''': you "shoot" any three points in the zone, creating the vertices of the triangle. The computer will, via webcam input, register those shots and project marks to record the locations.
-'''the build''':
-the build clock starts when you shoot a random point anywhere inside the triangle. The computer marks that spot.
-the computer will then, at random, highlight a vertex.
-you must, as quickly as possible, shoot at the point halfway between your starting point and the highlighted vertex. The computer marks that spot.
-the computer will again, at random, highlight another vertex.
-you must, as quickly as possible, shoot at the point halfway between your most recent point and the highlighted vertex. The computer marks that spot.
-repeat....
-...until you run out of time!
-'''Scoring''':
-a numerical value, based on the accuracy of your shots and the number of points you were able to mark in the time allotted.
-the points may also be colored by accuracy, so it's drab if it's inaccurate (and also looks less like the actual fractal) or very colorful if you're right on the mark.

Future Projects

2012-08-18T14:50:12Z

Adan: /* Adan */

This page lists our ideas for ongoing or future projects and classes. If you would like to spearhead a project, please move it under your name so that those who are interested will know who to contact.

* Lock picking
* Hardware analysis and performance tuning with Linux
* Nvidia CUDA
* CoreWars
* Urban gardening\composting
* DIY arc welder http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-Homemade-Welder/
* Super low cost subtractive CNC machine/Laser cutter http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12713
* Glass blowing\lampwork
* Lost-wax\sand casting http://www.submarineboat.com/casting_aluminum.htm
* Beer brewing - oh yeah.
* Twin Screw Linear Motionator (Dr. Strangegun?)
*[[Vacuum Forming]]

==Adan==
* Automated window garden
* Boat Building
** [[Build Notes]]
** [[Steam Bending Box]]
* [[Chaos Race: Sierpinski Laser Game]]

== Andronicus ==
* [[Reprap]]
* [[Optical Communication in Free Space]]

== Ben Mayer ==
* Temperature control for brewing and beyond (Arduino, Local display[LCD], Remote Display [XBee, 802.11, Ethernet], data logger, timer)
* Steam Punk wireless mouse
* 3D printing, modeling, OpenSCAD

== Bstrdsmkr ==
* Kiln "modernization"

== fractalexplorer ==
* Vending machine repurpose
* antique tape deck/radio/LP cabinet w/ speakers repurpose
* [[fractal images]]
* [[circuit-bending]]
* [[Ubuntu]] skins, modifications, plug-ins, and custom drops
* Kids' circuitry and electronics kits repurposed into an educational boardgame
* open source social network platform for smart devices to automatically emulate social interaction with other smart devices using Turing-friendly ~AI such as "jabberwacky" ([[Project FridgeTalk]])
* DIY musical instruments
* database of useful free web services and open source/Creative Commons content
* [[FruityLoops]] and [[Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS)]]
* movie editing
* video game creation using free tools such as [[Styncyl]], [[M.U.G.E.N]], [[RPG Maker]], etc.
* random art projects
* Dadaist scrolling LED jibber-jabber device

==Laz==
* [[Automated Smoker]]

Build Notes

2012-08-15T19:57:05Z

Adan:

We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to future builders of this kind of boat

- Tools that work
- Shopsmith disk sander (?" diameter)
- drum sander... need to improve it: currently just aluminum stock, abrasive-wrapped, chucked into the lathe
- table saw with featherboard
- awl/pick (piercing station molds for wiring stringers on)
- thin wire
- Tools needed
- infeed and outfeed rollers for tablesaw
- zero-clearance insert for tablesaw
- bandsaw
- Processes that work
- pencil line on strongback
- didn't do taut wire, seems ok so far
- helps that strongback is very rigid and flat
- wiring stringers to station molds:
- enables single-handed stringer installation
- assists even when workers are plenty
- adhering temporary clamp-holding wedges to stringer ends
- CA glue is easy to knock loose later
- strong double-sided masking tape may serve as well
- friction tape on angle blocks could eliminate need for adhesion to stringers
- lashing the ribs to stringers
- use artificial sinew: beeswax impregnated nylon, available at leather stores
- use a square lashing technique, frap clockwise then spiral clockwise up the rib to the next junction. (if that detail worries you :-)
- Processes that need refinement
- assembling + adhering stem assembly
- need flat surface, nonstick (maybe bluetape)
- maybe nail in place?
- 2"x4" as station mold cleat
- adequate, but...
- could be more right-angled if ripped to square section
- simple lever/bender to clamp stringers to stem
- Redesign/Improvement Ideas
- Build Strongback with station locations planned
- Build reusable station molds with retractable stringer hookers

Build Notes

2012-08-13T16:17:38Z

Adan: Created page with "We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to f..."

We'll throw up some not-quite-random notes that have occurred to us as we've built this first canoe. In time we hope this can become a knowledge base that will be of service to future builders of this kind of boat

- Tools that work
- Shopsmith disk sander (?" diameter)
- drum sander... need to improve it: currently just aluminum stock, abrasive-wrapped, chucked into the lathe
- table saw with featherboard
- awl/pick (piercing station molds for wiring stringers on)
- thin wire
- Tools needed
- infeed and outfeed rollers for tablesaw
- zero-clearance insert for tablesaw
- bandsaw
- Processes that work
- pencil line on strongback
- didn't do taut wire, seems ok so far
- helps that strongback is very rigid and flat
- wiring stringers to station molds:
- enables single-handed stringer installation
- assists even when workers are plenty
- adhering temporary clamp-holding wedges to stringer ends
- CA glue is easy to knock loose later
- strong double-sided masking tape may serve as well
- friction tape on angle blocks could eliminate need for adhesion to stringers
- Processes that need refinement
- assembling + adhering stem assembly
- need flat surface, nonstick (maybe bluetape)
- maybe nail in place?
- 2"x4" as station mold cleat
- adequate, but...
- could be more right-angled if ripped to square section
- simple lever/bender to clamp stringers to stem
- Redesign/Improvement Ideas
- Build Strongback with station locations planned
- Build reusable station molds with retractable stringer hookers

Future Projects

2012-08-13T03:07:14Z

Adan: /* Adan */

This page lists our ideas for ongoing or future projects and classes. If you would like to spearhead a project, please move it under your name so that those who are interested will know who to contact.

* Lock picking
* Hardware analysis and performance tuning with Linux
* Nvidia CUDA
* CoreWars
* Urban gardening\composting
* DIY arc welder http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-Homemade-Welder/
* Super low cost subtractive CNC machine/Laser cutter http://letsmakerobots.com/node/12713
* Glass blowing\lampwork
* Lost-wax\sand casting http://www.submarineboat.com/casting_aluminum.htm
* Beer brewing - oh yeah.
* Twin Screw Linear Motionator (Dr. Strangegun?)
*[[Vacuum Forming]]

==Adan==
* Automated window garden
* Boat Building
** [[Build Notes]]
** [[Steam Bending Box]]

== Andronicus ==
* [[Reprap]]
* [[Optical Communication in Free Space]]

== Ben Mayer ==
* Temperature control for brewing and beyond (Arduino, Local display[LCD], Remote Display [XBee, 802.11, Ethernet], data logger, timer)
* Steam Punk wireless mouse
* 3D printing, modeling, OpenSCAD

== Bstrdsmkr ==
* Kiln "modernization"

== fractalexplorer ==
* Vending machine repurpose
* antique tape deck/radio/LP cabinet w/ speakers repurpose
* [[fractal images]]
* [[circuit-bending]]
* [[Ubuntu]] skins, modifications, plug-ins, and custom drops
* Kids' circuitry and electronics kits repurposed into an educational boardgame
* open source social network platform for smart devices to automatically emulate social interaction with other smart devices using Turing-friendly ~AI such as "jabberwacky" ([[Project FridgeTalk]])
* DIY musical instruments
* database of useful free web services and open source/Creative Commons content
* [[FruityLoops]] and [[Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS)]]
* movie editing
* video game creation using free tools such as [[Styncyl]], [[M.U.G.E.N]], [[RPG Maker]], etc.
* random art projects
* Dadaist scrolling LED jibber-jabber device

==Laz==
* [[Automated Smoker]]

Future Projects

2012-07-07T01:42:48Z

Adan:

Future Projects

2012-07-01T01:45:58Z

Adan: