Date

- 4pm

Attendees

Mark

Josh

Bitta

Kia

Gena

Keith

Kevin

Vincent

Discussed Items

  • Previous month's minutes
  • Halloween Retrospective
    • Show was 90% finished, everyone loved the show.
    • Lots of ideas for working on between now and next year
    • Having the Pi running the show was very successful, needs a user friendly interface though
  • Next year's Halloween
    • Classic Halloween! 
      • Ghosts, zombies, skeletons, and things that go bump in the night!
      • Keith suggested that Max organize an event with the gent from Haunters who used wiper motors for various motions
      • Having more interaction
  • Holiday 2024
    • Use the prisoners for carol singers in the lobby
    • Get pink foam to build a large Gingerbread house
    • Holiday Tree, singers, and the house as the display 
    • Include other religions
      • Menorah in the window
      • Dreidel
      • etc
    • Grinch/Krampus
    • Add motion to the house, such as  dancing shadows with the wiper motors
  • Projects to work on for future Shows
    • Having a punch panel for shows
    • Building a better web UI for folks to control the show
    • Separate out projects for Halloween for folks to individually take point
  • Create Animatronic's groups to handle software, building, that are able to teach to anyone, skilled or unskilled
  • Bitta would like to introduce smaller shows throughout the year, will come back to this when we have a system foundation in place so that we can build faster.
    • Saint Patricks, Easter, Cinco de Mayo etc, maybe within the Animatronics
  • Kia would like the committee to make a "Glube" for the SocietyOfPlay for Feb 12th's TinyCon


Action items

  • Mark to source new pink foam for Gingerbread
  • Keith to source a dozen classic holiday songs
  • Adam to host a learning event for setting up servo's and lip syncing the skeletons, Sunday 10th 4pm
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