14/6/2014 13:00-16:00 - Milligan House, Bunbury

Attendees:  Paul Hamilton (PH), Steven Eaton (SE), Phillip Jubb (PJ), Clare Johnston (CJ), Dylan Morris (DM)

Show and Tell:

Paul and Steven brought along their 3d Printers.  Stephen demonstrated 3D printer calibration and showed off his latest print job - a carbon fibre body for his quadcopter.

Paul showed off the Adafruit 2.8" LCD touchscreen that was running xwindows on a Raspberry Pi.

The output from today’s 3d Printing calibration tests:

The above LH thin wall test was printed in 0.2mm thick PLA, the two smaller RH cubes are printed with 0.4mm carbon fibre filament.

Dylan had a go at printing a 25mm high tree stump:

The next meeting will be on Sat. the 12th of July at the same place.

We had two new members come along and introduce themselves.

Show and Tell

PJ and CJ had a long discussion about Aquaponics

SE ran through his plans for quadcopters. Showed printed chassis and explained and demo’d auto pilot unit.  Dillon showed off some software that he was using to re-model a dinosaur.  PH showed off the Rainbow-Pi results.

General Discussion

Discussion about moving forward with the club.

Monthly Meetings - Discussion re meeting monthly. Decision to try monthly meetings as we have funding. If we meet more regularly, we might attract a more consistent membership.

Meeting Place - Discussion how having our own space would encourage a different environment and would also allow use to meet many more times per year. We could have weekly nights and training like the Artifactory. PJ will investigate with some contacts for a free or peppercorn lease on a small unit.

Next Meeting: 14th June 2014 - Milligan House

Thanks to PJ for the meeting notes.