09/22/2026

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Welcome

to LVL1! Louisville's Premier Hackerspace

"Where am I and What is this place?"

  • A community Hackerspace that operates as a treehouse for hackers, tinkerers and creative minds of Louisville to work on their projects together.
  • Everything around you was put there by someone caring enough to leave it behind for the next, from familiar equipment and useful materials to things you've never seen before.

"How Can I Get involved and Use the Space??"

  • 1.Sign the waiver - We have dangerous tools that can cause serious injury if not used correctly/carefully. We're not responsible if you hurt yourself with them but we are happy to help you learn!
  • 2.Return to Hack with us, LVL1 is open when members are present to host and we are available for you to do cool things here without any obligation but to be Excellent to each other.
    • We try to be here at regular times to help you schedule your return, join us for events on our CALENDAR

How to Care:

  • Meet People, Teach a skill, Clean a Mess, Pay Dues, Take Action, Make Suggestions, Solve Problems, Fix, Replace & Add Things
  • We function as a shared public space where everyone gets to decide what happens and make cool projects together. We vote on complicated ideas and use the DO-ocracy to achieve our goals.
    • this takes a little extra patience, tact & consideration of your fellow hacker.
  • Leave the Space in better condition than when you arrived

Become a Member

  • Take on the extra responsibility to Care for the space alongside everyone in exchange for:
    • 24 hour access, Personal Shelf Space, Voting rights, Access to Organize Events,
  • We're excited to help you learn more about what this means

Shoutouts

  • PRS Teams have begun continued and new projects for the approaching end of this year's season leading into next season. PGH is THIS WEEKEND!!!
  • Danielle is scheduling her next Hackathon: The Stupid Crap and Terrible Ideas 2: The Neverending Franchise
  • Matt producing an anchored island to create additional room for 3d printing area
  • Dan is underway with the stand for the new planer, plans to cut an insert to convert the other half of table saw into router table
  • All the help with loadin of PTDR, please be mindful and DNH the pile stashed in the back. Things have been shuffled out of the way.


Announcements

  • Embroidery Funds Petition results needed 24 votes, 24 votes received!!! - Helen to pursue next steps
  • Officer&Directors meeting tomorrow 7PM
    • KY Colonels grant spend action plan: Planer Plasma and 3D printers are ALL HERE!! Work is underway to install these, a huge shoutout to those leading the charge, if you would like to offer any help, get with Orion, Mat or Dan and thank them for their awesome efforts.
    • Next Pitchin, October: Chilli Cookoff - 2 weeks away.
  • Helen is pursuing new acquisition of 3D scanning, tool change/jumbo 3d printer via walmart grant
  • Makerfaire <1 Month Away, Saturday - October 17. Add your name/project to the BIG List to join the LVL1 Booth, deadline for additional applications was last week but if you are straggling please let me know to pull some strings for you.
    • What projects can we begin/ revive and bring to show off this year - let's help to bring back the spectacle. Additional individual applications are welcome and encouraged but we are down to the wire to allow all the details to be sorted out.

We'll need volunteers to help show off Jim's PowerToolDragRace, tend our displays and more.

  • Space Improvement Day - general cleanup in the mainroom and reduction of the Jenga Pile in the wood storage area
    • please help put away your projects in a tidy fashion to keep the work areas available to everyone.
    • Reminder of general expectations - 1st option should be to take your active projects with you on your way out, 2nd option should be to store them on your member shelf, 3rd option should be to stow them out of the way of shared working areas so that as much horizontal real estate can remain available to the next fellow hacker.

Broken/Equipment Report

  • Learn as much as you can, ask questions and find out the best practices to keep our available equipment in service.
  • If something is broken or needs to be replaced, please send an email to broken@lvl1.org.
  • Please supply as much information as possible; links to websites or items are GREATLY appreciated. Consumables can be time-consuming to find; broken is not a mind reader!

Currently Broken * Water recently appeared again in multiple places

    • Rainwater enters the laser exhaust and leaks onto the floor out of the blower ($200 replacement)
    • Excess condensate not being pumped out of the wood/metal shop mini split AC units, especially the woodshop needs to be cleaned out at a higher frequency let's try to do this once/month to prevent moisture from wrecking projects and equipment. Ideally, nothing will be stored directly underneath (RIP former router table).

Quests

  • HomeLab experimentation to rejuvenate Woprjr(Whopper), integration of the traffic light Space status indicator, temperature monitoring etc.
  • Organize more workshops - bring your knowledge and communicate, let us know if you need help coordinating, advertising, & communicating with the community to teach what you know.
  • Organize more hackathons - bring your exciting ideas to get more folks making together.
  • Robert Recommends
    • Techsoup - pathway to tech software for nonprofits
    • Potential to increase our local networking (computers)?
  • Router Table built into the table saw
  • setup of all of the KY Colonel Grant Toys
    • Plasma(metal shop) - increased ventilation // Planer(woodshop) - new stand, organization of equipment layout // 3D Printers - new island, shelving storage and organization
  • To relieve and help Tiffany of some gracious duties (Pizza pickup, hauling aluminum cans to collect scrap money) talk with her/directors on how to do these things. What ways can we create incentive/ and retroactive for Tiff xoxo thank you!!!!

The Tim VanSant Makership: LVL1's Makership Program

    • New members pitch a project to be awarded 3 months free and up to $100 of project cost reimbursements!
    • Apply at https://lvl1.org/makership/ and apply via makership@lvl1.org by the last day of the month for each round
    • This program is funded completely through donations(NOT regular member dues) to reduce the friction of creating exciting projects for new members
    • Send any questions about how to submit a successful application to https://lvl1.org/makership/.

Connect with Us

Contact Us

    • learn@lvl1.org - Want to learn something new, get some equipment training, or host a workshop? Want to help facilitate any of these things?
    • broken@lvl1.org - Something broken? Does something need to be restocked?
    • directors@lvl1.org - Need to contact those who are ostensibly "in charge"?
  • Someone will be hosting a tour at the end of the meeting, near the front doors.

Regular Weekly Meetups

Monday

  • Sound Builders 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.

Tuesday

  • LVL1 Open Meeting, 8:00 P.M. - where you are right now!

Wednesday

  • CAD shop night - 6:30 P.M (correct time?) - focus on prototyping, 3D printing, design and fabrication

Thursday

  • Open Code Night at 8:00 P.M. - ??? If you want to code or interested in coding, this is your night.

Friday

  • Irregular Movie and Open Build Night, 8ish? - This is happening in the space. C'mon in and be safe. The best night to be in the space to meet folks and learn something.

Upcoming Events

Board meetings - Sep 23 - 7p (4th Wednesday) tomorrow

10/3 edition Deadly Threads and Fatal Fabrics 1st Saturday 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

AFOL - First Friday of the Month - adults friends of LEGO (during movie night)

New Member Brunch Venture - 2nd Saturday of the Month Oct 10 Meshtastic - Joe - 2nd Saturdays following Brunchventure!!!

  • PRS PGA PITSBURGH: Sept 26-27th
  • MakerFaire - October 17th
  • PRS LOUISVILLE: Oct 24-25th Joe Creason Park
  • Louisville Repair Faire - November 14th - Cyril Allgeier Community Center 11a - 4p.
  • White Elephant Hackathon - Holiday New Years omg it's over - December 11 @8pm - Dec 12 @7:00 P.M.
  • End of the year Holiday Party - Dec 12 @7:00 P.M.

Dates TBD:

  • Archer Hackathon
  • Jeff's Annual Holiday Ornament Laser Workshop (Thanksgiving-ish)
  • Gundam Model Making Event (Harmony)


You too can organize an event or hackathon or lunch'n'learn or meeting of the minds! See the Hosting Guide on our website: https://lvl1.org/hosting-guide/

WATCHA MAKING?

Making something cool?

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