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* 10/27/06: First "official" meeting. Projects were discussed and some were worked on, most notable of which is the [[Weeble Antenna]]. Two prototypes were made out of tennis ball halves with lead ballast and seem to work pretty well. | * 10/27/06: First "official" meeting. Projects were discussed and some were worked on, most notable of which is the [[Weeble Antenna]]. Two prototypes were made out of tennis ball halves with lead ballast and seem to work pretty well. | ||
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− | ***[[Gregabyte]], [[Brimstone]], [[Gomez]], [[Tanstaafl]], [[Nykodemus]], and [[Strages]]. | + | ***[[User:Gregabyte|Gregabyte]], [[User:Brimstone|Brimstone]], [[User:Gomez|Gomez]], [[User:Tanstaafl|Tanstaafl]], [[User:Nykodemus|Nykodemus]], and [[User:Strages|Strages]]. |
Revision as of 10:58, 30 October 2006
Contents
[hide]Overview
A place where people can go and work on assorted projects in an environment that stimulates creativity and motivation. Most people's problem with working on projects is there are too many distractions preventing them to from completing and often even starting on a project. The make shop will provide work area, resources, and knowledge to help people with their projects.
See TechShop[1] for more details.
Outline
- Start out small, like a hobby club, and build up a baseline of projects to work on.
- Determine the resources that are needed to complete these projects.
- Develop a means of keeping track of progress for each project.
- Work on the projects.
- ?
- Profit!
- No seriously though, just work on the projects.
- Eventually expand out into a larger area and attempt to attract more people.
Future Plans
- Become non-profit organization and find projects that are a good source of income to put back into the organization.
- Tool upkeep.
- Finding a larger place.
- Net acccess.
- Once a more permanent place has been found, provide access to all members via rfids.
- Building access could then be all hours.
- Everyone would be a keyholder and responsible for building security.
- Net accessible cameras would be setup inside and outside the shop to provide security and ability to see who's working before you head there.
- Lockers would be provided to members to have a secure place in shop to keep items.
- Open house nights would be setup to bring in possible new members.
- Volunteers would be available to ask questions and provide physical security for peoples projects etc.
History
- 10/27/06: First "official" meeting. Projects were discussed and some were worked on, most notable of which is the Weeble Antenna. Two prototypes were made out of tennis ball halves with lead ballast and seem to work pretty well.