09/30/2014
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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
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Wilcox) 7 inch Harmonic Balancer x4 for EAE trebuchet
Space Upgrades
- Let there be more light!
Space Downgrades
- 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 toilet paper and soap!
Regular Meetups
- MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 10/13 8pm)
- TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 10/1 @ 7pm)
- THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 10/16/2014
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 10/16/2014
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- Host: ???
- Movie: ???
- Group Pizza order placed at 7:30 pm ($7/person)
- Louisville EAE (6pm)
- Compete in Engineering, Arts, & Extreme Sports events & contests!
- Host: Joshua M Wilcox
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouEAE/
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group (10/12)
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Now meeting irregularly. Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group (10/12)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- September Makership Deadline - 9/30 at 11:59pm
- More info about the Makership program at http://www.lvl1.org/makership
- SumoBot Tournament and Halloween Party - 11/1/14 (Sat after Halloween) More info to come. Save the date. Start building your bot.
- Lots of Sumobot Information - Sumobots
Project Roll Call
- Maker Faire Compilation Video
5 Minute Maintenance and Cleaning
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~50
- Meeting Start: 8:03 PM
- Meeting Stop: 8:45 PM
- Dinner: Nothing
- Tour Guide: Cody
- Notes Taken by: Nathan A.
- First Time Visitors
- Equipment & Supplies Wanted
- Cody needs gimble
- Space Upgrades
- Lulzbot TAZ went missing and now a new one has been provided by LULZBOT! WOOT THANK YOU!!!!!
- Cody is organizing tools from the back and moving them up front
- Jared finished sorting resistors! That is until Tim put more resistors there...
- Katy ordered pizza for Jose
- Typer and crew has continued to hang more lights and bought more ballast
- Space Downgrades
- People are not cleaning up after themselves EVERYWHERE!!!!! CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF PLEASE!!!!
- Regular Meetups
- Movie night: Looking for Lost Boys; if not Howard the Duck (the most horrific movie of all!)
- Nothing new added.
- Upcoming Workshops & Events
- Members: Vote for the new Treasurer this coming week.
- Sumobot fighting happens at 8 pm
- All other robots welcome!
- HIVE13 being invited! KEEP THE CHAMPIONSHIP HERE!
- Danielle: 10AM Saturday at Girl Scouts Makerspace. Soldering the classic TVBGone kit and take it home! Welcome to all ages and genders.
- Boy Scout day camp for STEM activities throughout the the Christmas Break. For all Boy Scouts and siblings.
- Project Roll Call
- A community member made a Maker Faire video!
- Maker Faire was a blast
- Derbycon: Lots of familiar and new faces. Taught people how to solder and showed off the Makerbot.
- Thanks everyone who put time and effort together.
- Joseph shows off the Dodiscohedron! Very big hit.
- Charles is building a transceiver for home automation unit.
- Brian developed a circuit board robot for his class at KCD. Finally put it together after several years. Built a 3d printed marble caster wheel.
- Watch for Brian's robot take over
- Jose shows off his "autonomous-yet-bends-to-your-will" (aka remote control) sumobots
- Cody is working on a gimbal for quad copter
- Gary fixed up a MIDI keyboard from the boneyard
- Gary got his remote controlled robot working using a TV remote!
- Nathan got rekt.
- Built a gimbal control mechanism to steer the joystick remotely.
- Built an omnidirectional reflector
- Tim made a voltage regulator and battery replacement for camera
- Michael D. brings up Hackers For Charity (hackersforcharity.org). Johnny needs help running a hackerspace. Michael is looking for help to help Johnny to establish a hackerspace. This is happening in Africa, Uganda. Need to get info to them at a minimum and then needs help shipping stuff.
