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Revision as of 14:24, 5 September 2012
Contents
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- September 07, 2012 6:30pm - TEDx Prep Meeting at shop
Makers Local Volunteers
- Ramgarden (Electric Vehicles)
- John Kelly (Lasercut Cookies)
- Jeff Cotten
- Raspberry Pi
- Need to ask Justin about Wheatstand boards and/or Tim about Meatstand boards
- Blorgons & Pictures so people know it's bad-on-purpose prop making
- EnabrinTain
- Laser Cutter (Jeff to supply a transport vehicle, may not be big enough for the cart though)
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
