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Fat Cat Fab Lab is a volunteer-run makerspace in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. This wiki contains information about the space, the FCFL community, and the equipment and tools that the lab provides.

NOTE: This wiki is public, but only members may edit. Become a Fat Cat Fab Lab member today!

Member Portal
For creating accounts, registering for classes, machine reservations, or making payments, please login and use our member portal.

Lab Spaces & Stations
Explore these to learn about the tools and equipment available.
 * Woodshop
 * Laser Cutting
 * Metalshop
 * Sewing
 * Electronics Lab
 * 3D Printing
 * Photography

Basic Use & Safety Classes
BUS classes are designed to teach you the basics of running jobs on these machines. Laser and CNC class participation and certification are required of all individuals who wish to use them.
 * Laser Class
 * CNC Class (Router)
 * 3D Printing 101 Class

Website
The main website is on Squarespace, if you wish to contribute/edit anything, we can give you access as needed.

CiviCRM is self-hosted in the cloud. We are looking for volunteers to help maintain it or even migrate it to another system if it meets our needs

Social Media
Twitter Instagram Facebook

Cleaning
Garbage is taken out every Tuesday and Thursday between 5pm-11pm.

Useful Notes/Links
We have a Github if you want to share or update code

Rules and Policies

 * Rules & Policies for members and guests
 * Member-Loaned Tools agreement & policy
 * Member-Led Improvement Projects
 * Member Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Board Operations

 * Organizational Structure
 * FCFL is a Not-For-Profit and how that differs from a Non-Profit in New York State

Meeting Minutes and Notes
A full history of minutes of the Board of Directors and Town Halls since September 2021
 * 01/11/2022 Town Hall Meeting‎
 * 12/14/2021 Board Meeting
 * 10/20/2021 Board Meeting
 * 10/13/2021 Board Meeting
 * 10/06/2021 Board Meeting
 * 09/29/2021 Board Meeting
 * 09/23/2021 Board Meeting
 * 09/21/2021 Board Meeting
 * 09/20/2021 Board Meeting

Wiki Edit Access
We strongly encourage all members to help out with keeping the wiki up-to-date, comprehensive, and easy-to-read. To get edit access:
 * 1) Click "Create account" in the upper right
 * 2) Go into the #wiki channel on Slack and ping the Wiki Admins and let them know your username