05/14/2013
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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 http://www.lvl1.org
- Sign up for our Google Group discussion list
- You can find all of our Meeting Minutes at http://wiki.lvl1.org
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Muddy Tech) Computers P4 or higher and LCD Monitors
- Posted 11/13/12
- (Brian W) - Large Black Trench Coat for EL Wire coolness
- Posted 3/26/13
- (Dan) - cold vacuum test chamber
- Posted 4/23/13
- (Aaron) - 1GB flash drives for USB RAID experiments
- Posted 4/30/13
- (Chris C.) - water pump
- Posted 5/7/13
- (Divinity) - flower pots, any kind
- Posted 5/7/13
- (Joseph) - Hoveround or similar mobility scooter
- Posted 5/7/13
Space Upgrades
- New Co-op: Elijah
Space Downgrades
- Member Shelving Still Broken
- Eric started cleaning it up, but has yet to make significant progress.
- Anyone who wants to help fix this will earn the eternal thanks of at least 8 members.
- Printer toner low
- Johnny 5 not loading filament on right extruder
Regular Meetups
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 6/10 8pm)
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making every (Tuesday 8pm)
- Muddytech Computer training (upstairs Thurs 6pm) Looking for students
- Muddytech SIG every 3rd Wednesday
- Game Dev Group (Sundays 12pm)
- MakerEd Louisville (First Wed of the Month next 6/5 7pm)
- KYOSS Monthly Meeting (2nd Wed of the Month 6/15 6:30pm)
- Friday Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (Friday ~7pm)
- SWF Space Work Fun (Last Saturday of the Month next 5/25 1pm)
- Guinness World Record (Last Saturday of the month next 5/25 2pm pending op meeting.)
- Java Workshop (possibly a new regular meet up, starting 5/27, time on LVL1 and KYOSS calendar)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- Vogt Awards Application Deadline May 17th
- http://www.vogtawards.com/
- Local hardware / manufacturing prize
- $20K seed funding, $100K Demo Day prize, RPC access, 10-week course in manufacturing
- MOSSCON - Open Source Conference
- May 18-19th, U of L Student Center
- Need LVL1 projects to show off, talk to Brad or KYOSS folks.
- Hot and Spicy Fest - May 18th 7pm
- Hate your face with a spicy potluck
- Great Boneyard Swaparound - May 25th, Noon - ???
- Swaping the Boneyard for the deep dead room
- FPGA/VHDL Workshop
- June 1st Noon - 4pm
- Cost: $70 (Will leave with Dev Board, Software & Knowledge)
- http://lvl1-fpgaworkshop.eventbrite.com
- Limit: 15 people
- National Day of Civic Hacking - Hack for Change Louisville
- June 1st 9am-5pm
- http://t.co/sSsLsEbxsm
- YSS - Youth Science Summit - June 15 - 9am-5pm-ish
- Looking for folks to create/lead a making/hacking/engineering lab
- Idea is to meet with HS/MS students, guide them toward STEM higher education or careers
- At the Science Center and Lexmark Campus, contact Joseph: jclagg@gmail.com. Free food.
- Hackathon! - Suicidal Robots
- To be rescheduled. Not July 13th.
- Maker Faire Detroit - July 27th - 28th
- Call for Makers is open!
- Mini Maker Faire Louisville
- Sept 28th
5 Minute Maintenance and Cleaning
- List on the main whiteboard
Project Roll Call
- Divinity: won second place for Louisville's funniest mom
- Jose: Thursday 7pm. Van de Graaff throwdown. Use premade parts to get the most awesome Van de Graaff working.
- Frank: Lenz's Law device, questions about 75W laser
- Brad: Finally got some buttons for vending machine project
- Altin U.: Going back to Kosovo soon, recognized for his achievements while here.
Post Meeting Notes
- Attendance: 40
- Meeting Start: 8:05pm
- Meeting Stop: 8:45 pm
- Tour Guide: Brad
- Dinner: none