Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

First test print with the Makerbot Cupcake - still need to rig up a heated platform for full production cycle

UPDATE #1

CUCFL
Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab
1301 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801

MINUTES
Business/Operation Committee Meeting
Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 5:30 PM

ATTENDANCE
B. Barrett, K. Heller, C Needham, D. Rose, L. Semeraro, G. Watson

I. Blue Platter Saturday Workshops (October 8) - Betty will open the doors for this event which is to be held from 9 AM to Noon

II. Fab Off (October 22)

Here is my first Ardbot robotics experiment.  Pretty rough in places, but the plan is to replace the Arduino with a Fabduino, and to replace the breadboard with a much smaller milled circuit board, both of which will be fabricated in the fab lab.  I will keep the re/purposed spray paint plastic caps as wheels, however - they work pretty well!

Join us for discussion and planning of upcoming events at the fab lab - light refreshments available

CUCFL
Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab
1301 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801

AGENDA
Business/Operation Committee Meeting
Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 5:30 PM

I. Attendance
K Heller, M Mane, G Ray, D Rose, L Scharf, G Watson

II. New Fall Hours Beginning September 6, 2011

    TUESDAY     5 - 9 PM
    THURSDAY     5 - 9 PM
    SUNDAY         12 - 6 PM
 
These hours are posted on the door of the lab, and on the website at:
http://cucfablab.org/location-hours.

Come join us for the the first meeting of the operations committee for Fall 2011 at 5:30 pm at the fab lab next Tuesday, September 6th.  Among other things, we will be discussing:

1) Our new open lab hours, and staffing schedules by student assistant lab managers

2) Fab Off pre-planning

3) Digital Media & Learning Competition 4 (online Thursday September 15)
http://dmlcompetition.net/

The fab lab will be closed Sunday, April 24th in observance of Easter.  See you on Monday!

The monthly meeting of the CUCFL Business/Operations Committee will be held at 5:30 pm on April 4th, 2011 at the fab lab.  Join us if you can!

A link to my Dokuwiki and Flickr slideshow illustrating construction of Celtic knot pattern in plywood, using laser cutter and mini mill. Pattern sand cast in aluminum in my workshop

http://www.steelhandrail.com/dokuwiki/doku.php

http://fablab.waag.org/node/3077

Early October saw a mobile fab lab on the Capitol Mall!  Hope we can get on this bus too!

http://infosyncratic.nl/weblog/2010/10/04/mobile-fablab-goes-to-congress/