[SGVHAK] Upcoming meetings (cancellations, Repair Cafe, SCALE, etc)

[Lan Dang]

While we didn't have our usual HAK meeting, we did have a neat gathering at John's place, where we ate Sam's club pizza around a folding table and had some good conversation.

John wants a new design for t-shirts for SCALE.  We can also consider making up business cards to hand out at our Birds of a Feather session.

We played with James' new toy, an RC helicopter that is a lot of fun to fly in a warehouse.

I got to do some surface mount soldering using a hot plate.  It just involved depositing some solder on the PCB using a syringe, and then carefully placing LEDs, using tweezers.  Then bake on top of hot plate until the solder turns silver.  The board and the LEDs are part of John's project to build his own LED desk lamp.

We looked at John's Ki-Cad drawings, which he sends out to a company to print the circuit boards.

Dave suggested some improvements to the 3D printer John is building, and it looks like it will become a HAK project.  In fact, the next HAK meeting will be at John's workshop, so we can make progress putting together the first iteration of the 3D printer.

Here are some photos from last night:
http://bit.ly/1g6CSGZ


Lan



On Monday, December 30, 2013 1:48 PM, Tux Lab <project.tuxlab at gmail.com> wrote:
 
Feel free to come over anytime after 6:30pm on Jan 2nd.     There are
plenty of activities to welcome the New Year.   We have 3d printer
building, smt/through hole soldering, Lan's can food dispenser
design/build, t-shirt design/printing for SCALE, maybe start an oshw
flashlight build designed with ossw, ie the headlight assembly for
that eventual oshw ev.

I'll get pizza from Sam's club so a head count will be nice   Please
email me and let know how people are coming and how much pizza you'll
need, ie 1/4 or 1/2 or 3/4 or 1 pizza.     We'll try our best to keep
the lead solders away from the food.

thanks,

John


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Due to the lack of RSVPs for the January 2nd meeting, it will be cancelled.
> However, some of us are going to be visiting John's Tux-Lab workshop in
> Arcadia to see what he's working on.   I'm personally interested in helping
> to build the 3D printer.  I'll let John post the information regarding his
> workshop and when it's okay to stop by.
>
> Also, save the date:  There will be a Repair Cafe event at The Shed (Lincoln
> & Washington in Pasadena)  on Saturday, January 25th, from 12pm-3pm.  More
> information as we get closer to the date.  It overlaps with the regular HAK
> meeting, but no reason not to attend and leave early.   For more on Repair
> Cafe: http://www.meetup.com/Repair-Cafe-Pasadena/
>
> The Southern California Linux Expo will be on the weekend of February
> 21-23rd.  This conflicts with our Saturday meeting for February, so it will
> have to be cancelled.  Or perhaps rescheduled to a later time and place.  We
> will be registering for a Birds of a Feather session at SCALE; this will
> likely be on Saturday, between 7 and 10pm.
>
> Here's a list of upcoming meeting times:
>
> Jan 02 (Thu) 6:30 - 9pm -- CANCELLED.  But there may be a gathering at
> John's Tux-Lab, at whatever time he specifies.
> Jan 16 (Thu) 6:30 - 9pm -- Dave's workshop in Arcadia
> Jan 25 (Sat) 12:00 - 3pm - Repair Cafe at The Shed (1355 Lincoln Ave,
> Pasadena)
> Jan 25 (Sat) 2:00 - 6pm -- Hastings Branch library
> Feb 06 (Thu) 6:30 - 9pm -- Dave's workshop in Arcadia
> Feb 20 (Thu) 6:30 - 9pm -- Dave's workshop in Arcadia
> Feb 21 (Sat) 2:00 - 6pm -- RESCHEDULED -- we will meet at SCALE (Hilton
> Hotel @ LAX) during a BoF session, time TBD
> Mar 06 (Thu) 6:30 - 9pm -- Dave's workshop in Arcadia
>
> Lan
>
>
>
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