#Forum

##New Cases

• The cases that were purchased prior have come in
• Decided to install new cases this upcoming weekend during the night.

#Lightning Talks

##Laser Safety Talk

• Kyle Pedersen described different classifications of lasers.
• Class 2: Completely safe (less than 1 milliwatts)
• Class 3R: Safe when handled carefully (1-5 milliwatts)
• Class 3B: medium range, eyewear is suggested (5 - 499 milliwatts)
• Class 4: dangerous to eye exposure, can burn materials (500+ milliwatts)

##Blueberry Pi Photoelectric Effect

• Graham Northup reset the power regulator of a Rasberry Pi 2 w/ a laser.
• by aiming a laser at the power regulator, the Pi rebooted
• Called a Blueberry Pi since the Raspberry Pi was inside an empty blueberry poptarts box

##7HRL: 7 Hour Rogue-Like

• Many people in COSI participated in a rogue-like competion (5 hours due to a fire alarm) on April 11th
• Consisted of coding for the allotted time and presenting what was created during the hours before.
• Many people presented their games at today’s meeting
• Link to people’s repos thread on the COSI subreddit

##Let’s Encrypt

• A new encryption authority that will be automatic and open
• link: Let’s Encrypt

##ISTF

• April 6th, a VM was compromised.
• Graham Northup was able to find a SSH worm on this VM and debugged (but didn’t run) through it during the talk.

##C Preprocessor

• Ethan Miller described how the preprocessor switches ??!??! with OR operator

#Project Updates / Announcements

##Print Update

• You can now reset your password on the print server

##Comm Server: Hal

• Eric Richter will be leaving at the end of the semester, so he is planning on giving a workshop to overview Hal

##C Preprocessor Workshop

• Ethan is planning on running a workshop on C Preprocessor tricks

##Unity 5 Workshop

• Clarkson’s IDEA Club is hosting RIT’s Steve Maier who is giving a workshop for an introduction to Unity 5
• April 16, 6-9pm, SC166, Free food

#After Meeting Slot

• Graham Northup gave a workshop on pointers.