04/05/2016
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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 - FIVE MINUTE TASKS -
- Check the board for post its -
- Includes clean tables, surfaces.
- Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!
- We have a smile.amazon.com account - You can shop at smile.amazon.com and pick us as your nonprofit and some proceeds come our way.
Shout Outs
- Shout out to Aaron for CNC workshop
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- Great Day Live Project tomorrow ( 4/6)
- Divinity
- Metal 55 Gallon Drum
- Woodshop Upgrade
- Paul G.
- Someone [who?] is looking for information about and access to different kinds of plastics.
Space Upgrades
- Sewing Area
- Cleaning Closet is clean
- Wood Shop
- Metal Shop
Space Downgrades
- The Hat's giant slide-rule space decoration is missing!
- 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
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 4/11 @ 8pm)
- Night of The Hat (every other fortnightly Mondays, next 4/18 @ 8 PM)
- Learn to solder, work on Inter-hackerspace Battleship, Kittens, and open making.
- TUESDAY
- Learn-a-thing (Tuesday 6pm)
- Learn how to use many tools at LVL1 before the meeting (informal setting; great for first-timers!)
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- New Member Orientation (1st Tuesday of the Month, next 5/3 @ 7:00)
- Derby Py Meetup (4th Tuesday of the month, next 4/26 @ 6:30)
- Discussion of Python related topics.
- Meetup
- Learn-a-thing (Tuesday 6pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- Mendnesday (Last Wednesday of the month, next 4/27)
- Learn LVL1's equipment from the inside out by helping repair and maintain tools
- Contact Nathan
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month, 5/6 @ 7pm)
- Mendnesday (Last Wednesday of the month, next 4/27)
- THURSDAY
- Power Racing Series Meetup - (Thursday 7:30pm - CANCELLED 4/7!)
- Make our Power-wheels racer to enter in Detroit Makerfaire!
- Contact Danielle
- Drone Meetup - (4th Thursday, 4/28 @ 8 PM)
- Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
- Meetup
- Power Racing Series Meetup - (Thursday 7:30pm - CANCELLED 4/7!)
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (Friday @ 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 around 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (Friday @ 8pm)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- U of L hosting Hack-a-thon - 4/9
- asking LVL1 for mentors to offer advice to hackers at the -a-thon.
- [www.derbyhacks.io Website]
- Contact: James Gissendaner
- Robotics Education and Competition - 4/14
- 20,000 people from all over the world for youth robotics (vex) competition
- Need 800 - 1000 volunteers
- Do NOT have to know robotics and people as young as 10 can volunteer
- People with more knowledge can receive training and be judges or referees.
- Sign up / learn more at http://www.roboticseducation.org/volunteer
- Contact: Divinity
- Grow your own Produce Workshop - 4/16 @ 10:30am
- Make your own hanging planter for small-scale agriculture.
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthtainer-plant-build-tickets-22364831814
- Contact: Daniel
- April Makership Application Deadline - 4/30 @ 11:59 PM
- Submit your project for a chance to win 3 months of membership and $100 toward your project
- Apply at www.lvl1.org/makership
- LFPL How-To Festival - 5/14
- Share in a short workshop how to do something.
- Let me know TODAY if you would like a spot!
- Contact: Jared
- Capture the Flag Computer Security Workshop/Contest - 5/28 @ 10; 2 (respectively)
- $20 per person, for food and flash drive with kali linux.
- No knowledge needed for workshop, bring a laptop.
- Contact: Matt Lichtenberger
- Surface-mount TV-B-Gone workshops!
- By appointment, $25, 2 hour time commitment.
- Contact: Charles 'The Hat'
- 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
- Pete assembled a solder-it-yourself oscilloscope kit.
- Alex (Marwood) is making a skateboard
- Jared is making a bootable USB
- Project Clean Up - "This place is a dump" - Task list - can anyone give me 10 minutes tonight?
- DIvinity
Gary Roll Call
- Gary made a ladder storage solution for his garage/workshop with a pulley and some rope.
Security Camera Log-In
- Contact Bill
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~ 25
- Meeting Start: ~8:00 PM
- Meeting Stop: ~8:50 PM
- Tour Guide: Raj
- Notes Taken by: Jared