[MakeLV] How Exciting!

Matthew Tuerk mtuerk at allentownedc.com
Fri Nov 5 10:50:27 EDT 2010


Sorry for the long delay in response. I want to use our meeting on the  
16th as an opportunity to discuss a lot of these different decisions,  
particularly how we should structure the organization and how to fund  
its activities.
Matthew Tuerk

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Allentown Economic Development Corporation
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On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Tyler Worman wrote:

> We can discuss with membership requirements with AEDC when we meet  
> on the 16th, unless Matthew is able to chime in and give his  
> thoughts. My understanding is they just want to get people using the  
> space for now. They did mention anyone using the space would  
> definitely need to sign a waiver of liabilities. I guess that is a  
> form of requirements...
>
> AEDC has purchased the CNC machines from one of the local tech  
> schools that they plan to have in the space. The Makerbot is mine,  
> but as the site said, if I know ahead of time I'd be happy to bring  
> it in and let others use it. I'm still struggling to get it printing  
> perfectly, but I'm close. It is really exciting model an item in a  
> cad program, hit build and a short time later be holding that item  
> in your hand.
>
> I document my work here: http://www.novaslp.net/cgi-bin/mainSite.pl?function=projects
>
> My recent projects have been an Ethernet to Xbee router so that  
> multiple Xbee radio devices can send and receive http requests.  
> Which was designed to give connectivity to a RGB pixel wall/panel  
> I'm working on.
>
>    - Tyler
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at ritchietribe.net 
> > wrote:
> I just saw the announcement on the Makezine blog and am excited to  
> see this opening up so near to my house. I live near the  
> intersection of Lehigh St. and 78. I wonder if sending out an  
> announcement to local Linux User Groups might be helpful.
>
> I've played around with Arduino some also. I posted my primary  
> project on my projects website: http://projects.josiahritchie.com/projects/ed
>
> I looked at the tool list and having a Makerbot and a CNC available  
> to play with seems particularly interesting.
>
> Will there be any membership requirements? What sort of stuff have  
> others been doing?
>
> JSR/
>
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