May 5th, 2016 Meeting Minutes
Notes taken by mobyte in emacs
5 people in attendance: nospace, stringy, cpg, ohhimark, and mobyte
On a Thursday, 6:00PM, 2225 Kohrman Hall
Defcon
- If you’re interested in Defcon 2016, get in contact with flay on IRC.
- Estimated cost would be $1000.
Oculus Rift
- Our consumer edition Oculus Rift has arrived!
- However, none of our computers at the Computer Club can handle its awesomeness.
- We’re thinking of building a new computer with capable hardware so we can run it.
- Based on a cost estimate by mobyte, it may cost somewhere between $700 and $1000.
- I will post a parts list on IRC and people can give feedback.
- Alternatively, ohhimark is offering to sell us a computer.
- Specs are: Intel i5-4690k overlocked at atbout 4.5GHz, Z79 ASRock Motherboard, lots of fans, 8GB DDR3-2133 RAM, 120GB SSD, 850W 80+Bronze PSU, and GTX 780 GPU.
- We would probably need to swap out the GPU.
- We can compare our final parts list to what ohhimark is offering and see which machine we go with.
Kohrman Swipe Access
- We now have swipe access for the Kohrman building.
- However, only two people are given access: stringy and nospace.
- nospace will be in the computer club office a lot in the summer, so check with him on IRC if you want to get in the room.
- In the fall, kami and nospace will be the holders of swipe access.
Summer Project Ideas
- Shall we start up hackathons again? Anyone have any ideas for new projects?
- hellbacon wants to make a web version of the POS, contact him if you want to help.
- ohhaimark is working on an ergonomic mechanical keyboard (Dactyl). Check the wiki for info (https://cclub.cs.wmich.edu/wiki/Dactyl_Keyboard).
- nospace has brought up the idea fix the arcade cabinet, ohhimark knows electrical work, so he could help.
- Angular is an ongoing project, we could use ideas for what we’d like to do
- nospace suggested noise detector for room
- Do we want to work on another general purpose bot, similar to botler?
- If you weren’t at the meeting and you have ideas of your own, let us know on IRC.