02/11/2014
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Contents
First time Visitor Info
- Prime Directive: Be Excellent to Each Other
- PARK ONLY IN THE ORI LOT OR ON THE STREET
- If you park in our neighbors private lot, they will block you in for fun.
- Waivers of Liability - Please sign if you have not already
- Our website / calendar is www.lvl1.org
- Sign up for our Google Group discussion list
- You can find all of our Meeting Minutes on our wiki
- 5 Minute Maintenance and Cleaning
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Muddy Tech) - Computers P4 or higher and LCD Monitors
- Posted 11/13/12
- (Tim) - 1/4" copper fittings
- 5 x 100 lb. Propane Tanks
- 1/4" copper tubing at least 2' long.
- posted 6/11/2013
- (Josh) - Red Bull Cans.
- Posted 10/22
- project update: We have begun cutting out 300 butterflies for sculpture. Contact joshua.m.wilcox@gmail.com if interested in competing.
- Posted 10/22
- (Josh) two 4-6 foot radius white spheres to make giant eyeballs
- posted 2/11
- (Divinity) - Pipes, gauges, spikes -items to be used for steampunk props for photoshoot for graphic novel - pre-made steampunk items for borrow also ok and appreciated + Lots of candles
Space Upgrades
- New Stickers!
- New Cards!
- Oven (thanks to GE, from Hackathon)
- Couch has wheels!
- Serging Sewing Machine is in!
- If you don't know how to use a serger, receive training before use!
Space Downgrades
- Shattered Glass in upstairs heater (heater still seems functional, landlords alerted)
- The quickest way to get something fixed is to let us know that it is broken! Send broken equipment reports to Broken@lvl1.org
- This includes supplies like toilet paper and soap!
Regular Meetups
- MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 2/17 8pm)
- Rope Work and Vertical Caving (1st Monday of the Month next 3/3 @ 6pm)
- Caving Special topics Meetup (3rd Monday of the Month next 2/17 @ 6pm)
- TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 3/5 @ 7pm)
- KYOSS Monthly Meeting (2nd Wed of the Month 2/12@ 6:30pm) http://kyoss.org/
- Muddytech SIG (3rd Wed of the Month 2/19)
- JSLou Meetup (3rd Wed of the Month 2/19) http://jslou.org/
- Java Workshop (4th Wed of the Month 2/26 @ 7pm)
- THURSDAY
- Muddytech Computer training (6pm upstairs)
- Looking for students
- Sewing Workshop (3rd Thurs. of the Month @ 7pm, 2/20)
- Bring in an unfinished project, start something new, learn and sew it up!
- Drone Meetup (4th Thurs. of the Month @ 8pm, 2/27)
- QUACC tickle your interest in Multirotors, UAVs, RC, or any other type of drone? Show up on the 4th Thursday!
- Muddytech Computer training (6pm upstairs)
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (~7pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group (12pm)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- Patrick's Ongoing Welding Workshops
- Sumobot Open Office Hours - 2/4 and 2/18 6-8 pm
- Brian has graciously agreed to host 2 sumobot meetings to support GE's internal sumobot competition for engineers week. Anyone interested in discussing sumobots and helping a group of sumo newbies is welcome.
- WEP Cracking workshop - Feb 15th, 3pm
- Get a USB Wireless Adapter, Kali Linux DVD, and learn how to crack WEP!
- Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wep-what-is-it-good-for-absolutely-nothing-cracking-wep-101-tickets-10324814799
- Engineer's Week @ Kentucky Science Center - Feb 20-22 (Mostly Sat the 22nd)
- Looking for folks to bring projects, contraptions, feats of engineering, etc. to show off.
- Contact Joseph - jclagg@gmail.com
- Chicken Husbandry - Feb 22nd, 6pm - 8pm
- Waffles to be served, also.
- Details to hatch soon.
- February Makership Deadline - 2/28 at 11:59pm
- More info about the Makership program at http://www.lvl1.org/makership
- Hot and Spicy Fest - 3/21, 7pm - 11pm
- Hate your face with this hot food pot luck, open to all.
Project Roll Call
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: 55 and a half
- Meeting Start: 8:01 PM
- Meeting Stop: 8:39 PM
- Dinner: Ben made Veggie Soup with pasta bits and two big pots of taco soup.
- Tour Guide: Brad
- Notes Taken by: Nathan A.
- Equipment & Supplies Wanted
- Tim could use the cash to buy the tanks too...
- Tim is mixing up chemicals to make fire! (maybe to be an evil arsonist/chemist! :O)
- Eyeballs need to be rigid. Maybe a giant beach ball?
- No new items
- Space Upgrades
- Woot! New stickers of the "Probably Safe" kind. Thanks to Joseph!
- New oven from the GE hackathon! Please do not use self clean mode b/c it'll melt the hot glue...
- New commercial grade power supply! 0-20V and up to 35A. Thanks Joe!
- Space Downgrades
- The roof leaks in more places than it doesn't... Please put buckets under the skylight perimeter!
- Be careful where you put things!!
- Regular Meetups
- Soundbuilders working on dodecahedron speakers and isomorphic keyboard.
- If you're interested in "probably safe hanging from ropes" then talk to Tim and show up to his meeting.
- Believe it or not, but we actually have a weekly meeting on Tuesdays at 8 PM. These days are guaranteed to have people here.
- MakerEd submitted school of innovation proposal. Visit LouisvilleMakerEd.org for more info.
- Matt from Drone Robotics will be presenting at the Drone Meetup.
- Irregular movie night showed Planet of the Apes (original). Jose abandoned movie night not as a group but personally one by one.
- Movie night is showing Airplane this Friday!
- No new regular meetups.
- Upcoming Workshops & Events
- Intro to MIG welding classes still being taught when the weather is nice.
- Kali Linux to be distributed at WEP workshop.
- February 22nd date for Engineer's Week is in need of LVL1 exhibits. LVL1 will have a whole room.
- Still looking for ways to mess with the pendulum there. It's tradition!
- Hot food works to induce memory loss.
- February 22nd @ Noon: Third class of Glock Mechanics is happening in the big room near the back.
- March 1st 9:30 am - 4:00 pm: Engineering Expo at Speed School. Clean room tours available.
- Science Center on Feb 13 6pm to 10pm: Dissection! 21 and over event!
- Project Roll Call
- Jose has a giant fridge door, maybe.
- It's a modded door to quickly chill beverages.
- Will become a permanent beverage chiller at the space.
- Mark will not be allowed to operate it! BEWARE!!!
- Placed third at the GE Hackathon.
- GE Hackathon Recap
- LVL1 showed up and won tons of awards! Woot!!! Congrats to all!
- LED cube is displayed.
- Ben Hibben and Josh built an auto zoom for Josh's camera. It's built from Arduino and custom prototyped parts.
- Nathan shows off Printrbot Simple.
- John shows off Prince Rupert's Drop? and other glass objects shown off.
- Tim is going to burn things in color!
- Tom: Issues and apology on behalf of MuddyTech and reminds folks to be excellent to each other.
- Patrick is hosting a benefit concert to help a child born with a heart defect.
- Jose has a giant fridge door, maybe.
