[MakeLV] Tools and such

[Josiah Ritchie]

There has certainly been talk of making circuit boards and some folks
who have done it have been around. We don't have tools specifically
for that purpose. We do have a soldering iron though. As far as micro
controller tools I don't believe we have anything of that type yet
either. At the next meeting we'll be getting together some much needed
governance stuff so we can start identifying goals for the group such
as what type of tools are most in demand and how to fund them. There
are lots of ideas flying around on both, but we need some organization
to figure out how to funnel funds. Donations of equipment at this
point are wide open. There are a couple computers kicking around.
Others may just need an old hard drive tossed in them to support
various software tasks. Some opportunities to build stuff are
certainly available for storage type solutions or finishing up the
projector build, etc.

In other words, we (the club) are just starting to get a grasp on a
lot of these questions. We don't have a proper inventory system or
anything like that.

JSR/

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, William Christensen
<staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:
> What kind of equipment would you have for supporting micro-controllers
> (non-arduino that is)? Is there any interest in anything in particular
> (Microchip ICD3 or Atmel MKII)? Also is there enough tools for making
> circuit boards in the space?
> -Will
>
> On Aug 3, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Matthew Tuerk wrote:
>
> So far we have nothing and the floor plan is fluid. We can take more
> hardware in the space if you want to bring it along.
> Matthew Tuerk
> matuerk at gmail.com
> On Aug 3, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Chris Callie wrote:
>
> OK great.
>
> Also,  I see the floor plan calls out for several workstation pc's. Do we
> have any of those yet?  If not, what kind of hardware specs are we looking
> for?  I've got lots of pc hardware laying around
>
> --
> Chris Callie
> reddog176 at gmail.com
>
> Sent from my mobile phone.
>
> On Aug 2, 2011 10:03 AM, "Matthew Tuerk" <matuerk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We can for sure prepare letters for donations. Just let us know what you
>> plan to contribute.
>>
>> Matthew Tuerk
>> matuerk at gmail.com
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Tyler Worman wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding was we could possibly pass the donations through AEDCs
>>> tax-exempt number. I don't know of any plans to get our own at this point.
>>>
>>> We don't have a list anywhere that I'm aware of.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Chris Callie <reddog176 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Granted I have not yet been at the space, but hope to rectify that on
>>> 8/9. I was looking through the wiki at the floorplan and limited pictures of
>>> the space. Do we have a somewhat inventoried list of what tools we already
>>> have, aside from what appears to be largely woodworking tools?
>>> If not, can we add something of the like to the wiki?
>>>
>>> Also, are we going to get set up with a tax exempt number at some point
>>> in time? If so, I may be able to get some electronics tools donated.
>>>
>>> Chris Callie
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