Animatronics Meeting-2024-03-22

Date

21 Mar 2024 - 7:30pm

Attendees

Mark Reynolds

Jayson Woods

Amelia Greisch

Vincent Craddock

Keith Kubal

Max Locke

Cary Fleming

Faith Varghese

Humera Khan

Shane

Planned Topics

• Chair Election
• Organization Day
• Moving Day Prep
• Future Class Ideas
• Future Projects
• Taking on Robotics

Vote Items

Item	Notes	Vote For	Vote Against	Vote Abstain
Chair Election	Vote for Mark Reynolds to be chair	Unanimous	None	Jayson

Discussion

• Chair Election - Mark voted in as chair, Jayson selected as Vice.
• Organization Day - Mark to bribe committee with pizza to help organize and clean the animatronics room. Planning within the next month.
• Moving Day Prep - In flux. We need to find out when the (currently) Digital Media hallway wall will be created to progress on this.
• Future Class Ideas\
  • How to use an Arduino/Breadboard - Mark to teach this.
  • History of animatronics class series
    • Marionette
    • Small cam driven animatronic
  • Voice acting with animatronics (possible with moving mouth animatronic) - Keith
  • Results of classes to become parts of the animatronic Holiday projects
  • Sewing clothes for Skeletons
• Future Projects
  • Halloween - Restoring and completing the Pirate theme
  • Christmas - Animated tree? animated ornaments on the tree?
• Texas Haunters Convention
  • Joining Creative Arts with creating small projects to display at the convention
• Taking on a SIG for Robotics
  • Early days, will check for interest etc.

Action items

• Check interest for a robotics SIG
• Need to get a date from the expansion committee about when the wall will be built