05/12/2015
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Contents
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!
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- Space - Outdoor seating & tables
- Josh - Go kart or similar framing for Redbull event
- Herman - 1/2", 3/4" conduit pipes
- Terry - Hardwood boards: cherry, walnut, maple, oak, etc.
Space Upgrades
- Jared added bathroom signage
- Redbull replinished
- Giant rocket has been brought back to the space!
- Metal 3D printer donation on the dock
- 300W audio amplifier donated
- 3 month trial of Adobe Creative Suite
- Gary fixed the plotter
Space Downgrades
- Johnny 5 still dead
- 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 5/25 8pm)
- Mend It Monday (the other fortnightly Mondays, next 5/18 @ 7 PM)
- Help LVL1 repair broken equipment & learn the equipment from the inside out
- Contact Nathan for more details
- TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 6/3 @ 7pm)
- THURSDAY
- Hacker House Planning Meeting - Every Thursday 7 PM
- Hopefully the next epic LVL1 project
- Help build a tiny house (on wheels) & figure out grant/donation opportunities
- Contact Nathan
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 5/21
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - 5/28 @ 8 PM
- Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
- Hacker House Planning Meeting - Every Thursday 7 PM
- 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 placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Louisville EAE (6pm)
- Compete in Engineering, Arts, & Extreme Sports events & contests!
- Contact Josh for more info!
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouEAE/
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group (5/24)
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group (5/24)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- MakerPlace Kids Group (MakerPlace @ Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana)
- http://www.gskentuckiana.org/Pathways/The-MakerPlace.aspx
- For boys & girls ages ~3rd grade to 8th grade with adult supervision
- May Events
- Skill-Building Workshop - 5/23
- Gameology - 5/14
- Adult event at the KSC
- Check out James' card game Quickie among others built by the LVL1 community
- Workshop du Jour - 5/15
- Show up to learn a new skill at LVL1 on various Fridays
- First theme: Laser cutter tutorial
- Contact Danielle
- Officers & Directors Meeting - 5/19 after regular meeting
- Learn how the sausage of LVL1 is made
- Completely open to the public
- May Makership Application Deadline - 5/31 @ 11:59 PM
- Apply for a 3 month membership and $100 stipend toward your project
- See more information at http://www.lvl1.org/makership/
- Vogt Awards - 5/31
- Application window ending soon; sign up with your best tangible business idea!
- 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
- Daniel is looking for the die set for a metal project prototype
- Divinity talks about her success with her bottle tower light display
- Will be building up another display for a high school prom for children who've had a rough upbringing and challenged life
- Barrett fused his laptop battery to his laptop using drills and screws; DO NOT TRY AT HOME
- Jared's record player is done! Congrats!
- Weiz explains his geometric model of the scientific table and theoretical physics; building phone app for it
- Patrick made an arduino based timing device that reused Jared's speaker parts for a reflector
- Terry is making life size Han Solo carbonite model on 3D printer
- Josh has had experience putting bodies in concrete for "casting people"...do not try at home
- Gary reveals Franken-plotter, mash up of 2 broken scanners that have been re-stitched!
- Prints things at a slightly smaller scale than scanned
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~60
- Meeting Start: 8:05 PM
- Meeting Stop: 8:48 PM
- Dinner: Ben has porkchops, corn, baked beans, potatoes, & corn chips
- Tour Guide: Danielle
- Notes Taken by: Nathan