Revision as of 08:30, 17 August 2012

Makers Local Volunteers

1. Ramgarden (Electric Vehicles)
2. John Kelly (Lasercut Cookies)
3. Jeff Cotten (LEGO Pit, potentially help with TBD ideas)

Notes from first meeting (Aug 16th, 2012)

Everett is our TEDx POC: everett@tedxhuntsville.com

Lab Ideas

The ones they liked

• LEGO pit by Tennessee Valley Lego (Jeff has contacted, waiting on reply)
• Electric Vehicle parkinglot demo by Tennessee Valley Electric Vehicle group (coordinated by Ramgarden)
• Party Squid (TBD, heavily dependant on availability of Ratmandu)
• Photobooth (TBD, need to talk to photobooth peeps)
• Lasercut cookies (Some of this we can do in shop, portability of cutter to event is TBD, need to talk to Enabrintain)

Proposed, but not as interested

• Hands on servo control
• Battlebot (they'd like us to save this for the TEDx youth robotics event in Novemeber)
• Geek Auction

Speakers

Spelling is not gauranteed

• Daniel Crowsby
• Paul DeJoe (CEO of startup)
• Tassea (CEO that started a cheese making goat farm. samples will be at event)
• One of the founders from Straight to Ale Brewing
• Rob Adams of Mind Gear Labs, who will be starting a for-profit Fab Lab in Madison
• John Gazier
• Jeff -Someone- (Speaker on creating figurative walled gardens for creativity)
• Lisa Williams (Entrepreneur, started company Soldier One)
• Jason Casanbry (Stable Nuclear Reactors in Space)
• Samier (Creating a glucose powered battery. also the guy that can remote control beetles)
• Ashley Caps (co-founder of Bonnaroo)

Other Interesting Tidbits

• You can rent those digital billboards for $150 a week if you're a non-profit
• Cost of event is free for volunteers, $40 for regular attendees, and $20 for UAH Students (code is "STUDENT")
• Their next meeting is Thursday