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First Time Visitor Info

  • Prime Directive: Be Excellent to Each Other
  • 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: wiki.lvl1.org
  • Culture of Cleanliness
  • Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!

Shout Outs

  • Thank you Terry for the woodshop reorganization initiative
  • Thank you Charles for the obnoxious signage and visibility at Derbycon

Equipment and Supplies Wanted

  • Charles - Looking for above ground portable pool (15 ft diameter and hold water, 1-2 ft tall)

Space Upgrades

  • Found flowing water on Mars?
  • Jared resupplied heat shrink

Space Downgrades

  • Makerbot Replicators
    • All parts fabbed, assembly in progress
  • Broken switch on planar
  • 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 drill bitses and soap!

Regular Meetups

  • MONDAY
  • TUESDAY
    • Learn-a-Thing Workshops (Tuesday 6pm)
      • Learn how to use a tool at LVL1 before the meeting (informal setting; great for first-timers!)
    • LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
  • WEDNESDAY
    • Mednesday @ 7 PM
      • Learn LVL1's equipment from the inside out by helping repair and maintain tools
      • This week's focus: 3D printers
    • MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 10/7 @ 7pm)
  • THURSDAY
    • Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 10/15
      • Bring a project, learn to sew!
    • Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - 10/22 @ 8 PM (At UofL Shelby Campus)
      • Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
  • FRIDAY
    • Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
      • Watch a terrible movie and ignore your project! Or maybe work on your project and ignore a terrible movie... The choice is yours.
      • Group Pizza order often placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
  • SUNDAY

Upcoming Workshops and Events

  • Officers and Directors' Meeting - 9/29 directly after the meeting (~9 PM)
    • Watch the sausage that is LVL1 be made and contribute to leading LVL1
  • Give Local Louisville - 10/1
    • Donate to LVL1 on this day to help LVL1 grab matching funds
  • Inventor Con 2015 - 10/6
    • Hosted by Central Kentucky Inventors Council in Lexington
  • Startup Weekend Louisville - 10/9 thru 10/11
  • Stupid Sh!t No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon - 10/10 thru 10/11
    • Show corporate how it's done by building useless things for fun!
  • Women in STEM Meetup - 10/21
    • Contact Beth for more details
  • The Second, 5th Annual Sumobot Competition - 10/30
    • Join in the melee by bringing in your sumobot and compete for hacker street cred
    • Costumes are greatly encouraged
  • Surface-mount TV-B-Gone workshops!
    • By appointment, with Charles, $25, 2 hour time commitment.
  • NEW Want to learn something new, get some equipment training, or host a workshop? Send email to learn@lvl1.org
    • Any one can be added to receive requests, just send email to learn@lvl1.org

Project Roll Call

  • Charles shows off his badge
  • Patrick & Jared fixed the new space downgrades
  • Jared is modifying his record player with remote volume control, still hard wired
  • Gary is making a geodesic dome after surviving the itch for 35 years

Meeting Notes

  • Attendance: ~35
  • Meeting Start: 8:00 PM
  • Meeting Stop: 8:38 PM
  • Dinner: Weiz cooked chicken and American gravy (other American food), corn bread
  • Tour Guide: Raj
  • Notes Taken by: Nathan