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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.

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Social #1: Saturday October 5th

Come for a hike via corn maze in Douglas at Northwoods Orchard.

Saturday October 5th

1 pm

$5/person for the adult corn maze. $3/kid for the kid corn maze. Other activities and items for sale, see their website if you're interested in apples, gourds, pumpkins, etc.

Unfortunately this is a weather dependent activity and even if the rain has cleared off, if there's too much mud it won't be a lot of fun.

I'll assess the rain, and if necessary call the farm after they open at 10 am to assess the mud level in the maze. If there's a cancellation, I'll send it out by email by noon (preferably by 11 am, toddler permitting) on Saturday.

Technical Meeting: Thursday October 10th

Tim Massaro will present on The Makings of a Maker Space, aka a history of The Rabbit Hole.

The Rabbit Hole is a maker space in Rochester, Mn. A random set of folks partially made of up PCIG and K-Lug members with an eclectic set of interests including Electronics, Music, Software, Microcontrollers, Hacking, Making, Gadgets, Photography, Solar, Android, Robots, Climbing, Canoeing, Biking...the list goes on and on... We're less than a year into the maker space world, but have already held many group events from Learn to Solder, to a Learn Lumi Picnic This presentation will discuss what is a Maker/Hacker space, the Maker revolution, Maker Faires, and highlight some of the Rabbit Hole creations and events including the Recyclotron, Wall-o-Tron and the arrival of our new Carve Wright CNC machine.

When: Thursday September 12th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107

Lunch: Thursday October 17th

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

Social #2: Saturday October 26th

Creative Reuse build day at the Rabbit Hole.

The Instructables general instructions are here: http://www.instructables.com/community/October-2013-Build-Night-Creative-Reuse/ .

We're meeting at the Toymakers hacker/maker space again. http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/

547 Northern Heights Dr NE

Rochester MN 55906

Time TBD

If you want to play at the Rabbit Hole on Friday night October 25th too, you can take a pumpkin (one you bought at Northwoods Orchard?) for soldering pumpkin lights and pumpkin carving night; I'm assuming this one is 6 pm.

For anyone who haven't been there before, their house is on the north side of the road up a steep and twisted driveway; park on the road with a parking brake. Walk up the driveway, up the steps, and ring the doorbell. into the open garage door, and into the house without needing to ring the doorbell.

Planned Technical Meeting: November TBD

Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Lunch: Thursday November 21st

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

Planned Social: November TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina.

Lunch: Thursday December 19th

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

Planned Social/"Technical Meeting": December TBD, probably a Friday night

What geeky hanging out activity do we want to do together this year? Last year we went to Hobby Gobblins, and I think they've managed to stay in business; want to go there again?

Planned Technical Meeting: January 2014 TBD

Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Planned Technical Meeting: March or later, 2013

Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

Peter Shabino

Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Children's Museum. Don't have a kid and feel akward about wandering around to check the place out without one? This is your chance, we'll have at least one coming with the group to salve any feelings of stalking stranger's children.

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls before they take down the sign we constructed for the Red Bull Creation contest.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.

-Parallax build contest ~Christmas

Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2013. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

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