07/19/2016
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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 - FIVE MINUTE TASKS -
- Check the boards for post its -
- Includes clean tables, surfaces.
- Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!
- We have an Amazon Smile account
- Shop at smile.amazon.com: pick us as your nonprofit; some proceeds come our way.
Shout Outs
- Shout out to Terry et al for the wood shop upgrades.
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Working) Air Conditioning Window Unit
- Bunker Upgrade
- Contact James
- Jr Achievers/Divinity looking for a commercial bubble machine and two 12 volt rechargeable batteries, very small.
- Contact: Divinity divinityrose@gmail.com
- Someone [who?] looking to start a drone battery sharing program.
- Someone [who?] looking to buy a rPi b3 locally.
Space Upgrades
- Class Room Lights being installed.
- Sewing and cutting station has a sign now.
Space Downgrades
- hose near front door leaks. David is working to fix it.
- 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
- Night of The Hat (Mondays, next 7/25 @ 8 PM)
- Learn to solder, work on Inter-hackerspace Battleship, Kittens, and open making.
- Now weekly until Detroit Makerfaire!
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 8/1 @ 8pm)
- Night of The Hat (Mondays, next 7/25 @ 8 PM)
- 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)
- Derby Py Meetup (4th Tuesday of the month, next 7/26 @ 6:30)
- Discussion of Python related topics.
- Meetup
- Learn-a-thing (Tuesday @ 6pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month, next 8/10 @ 7 pm)
- THURSDAY
- Power Racing Series Meetup - (Thursday @ 7:30pm)
- Make our Power-wheels racer to enter in Detroit Makerfaire!
- Contact Danielle
- Drone Meetup - (4th Thursday, 7/28 @ 8 PM)
- Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
- Meetup
- Power Racing Series Meetup - (Thursday @ 7:30pm)
- 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 may be placed around 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (Friday @ 8pm)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- The "Oh Crap, is that NEXT weekend!?" Hackathon - Friday-Sunday, 7/22 @ 8:00 pm - 7/24 @ 12:00 noon.
- Work on a project you will be bringing to Makerfaire Detroit
- Contact: Charles, The Hat
- The "Oh Crap, was that LAST weekend!?" LVL1 birthday party - Saturday 7/23 @ 4:00 pm.
- In the middle of the Makerfaire hackathon, celebrate LVL1's belated birthday!
- MakerFaire Detroit, Saturday-Sunday, 7/30-7/31
- July Makership Application Deadline - Thursday, 7/31 @ 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
- DEFCON - 8/4-8/7th
- information security conference in Las Vegas.
- #Adulting workshop series - Coming soon; TBA.
- Contact Ben
- Derby Con - 9/23-25th
- lvl1 will be teaching how-to solder at this conference.
- Contact: Charles.
- Learn how to solder ongoing workshops
- By appointment, Various time commitments; costs.
- 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
- Jared's motor spins both ways now.
- Andy has a rPi and LEDs working together. thanks Charles!
- battleship test fires in parking lot.
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: 34
- Meeting Start: 8:00 PM
- Meeting Stop: 8:36 PM
- Tour Guide: Raj
- Notes Taken by: Jared