10/13/2026

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 one more race this season and you can be there to watch us race! Joe Creason Park Saturday Oct 24, ALL DAY!!
• Matt is finalizing some touches to make way for our new 3D printers, on the island and behold the new doors!!
• Dan has completed the planer stand(drawer slides to come) and is making progress with help organizing the woodshop!!
• Aaron for getting me in and out of the Gorge (Red River variety)

Announcements

• • 1 Hour to vote on the new router insert funding please vote so we can improve the woodshop!!
  • 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.
    • Planning to submit our reimbursement forms this week or next at the latest!

• Embroidery Funds Petition results needed 24 votes, 24 votes received!!! - Helen to pursue next steps
• Helen is pursuing new acquisition of 3D scanning, tool change/jumbo 3d printer via walmart grant

• Makerfaire This weekend, Saturday - October 17. Add your name/project to the BIG List to join the LVL1 Booth
  • What projects can we begin/ revive and bring to show off this year - let's help to bring back the spectacle.

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

• NEW MAKERFAIRE INFO:
  • WE are INDOORS & OUTDOORS, and with our extra booths: PRS, PTDR, NHB PinewoodDerby, and Rob's ElectroPlating
  • All Items can Load-IN as early as the night before (5pm-ish) indoors gets locked overnight, outdoors has NO guaranteed security

• 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 as you leave, 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

• Low on Paper Towels

Quests

• HomeLab experimentation to rejuvenate Woprjr(Whopper), integration of the traffic light Space status indicator, temperature monitoring etc.
• More workshops, events and hackathons
• Router Table built into the table saw
  • 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!!!!

Robert Recommends

• • Techsoup - pathway to tech software for nonprofits
  • Potential to increase our local networking (computers)?
  • Other space improvement ideas an ever growing list woo wooo

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

• • Sign up for our Google Group discussion list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lvl1
  • Discord https://discord.gg/aAxgSCQQWA

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

MAKERFAIRE IS THIS WEEKEND

Board meetings - Oct 28 - 7p (4th Wednesday)

11/7 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!!!

• MakerFaire - October 17th

• PRS LOUISVILLE: Oct 24-25th Joe Creason Park

• Volunteer Opportunities:
• Louisville Repair Faire - November 14th - Cyril Allgeier Community Center 11a - 4p.
• The Blitz - Nov 7th and Nov 14th - teams assemble to winterize homes of community members

• Archer Hackathon 5th Annual - Nov 13/14 8pm - 8pm (24 Hours)
• White Elephant Hackathon - Holiday New Years omg it's over - December 11 @8pm - Dec 12 @7:00 P.M.

• Jeff's Annual Holiday Ornament Laser Workshop & Cookie Exchange (Nov 28 Saturday- post Thanksgiving)
• End of the year Holiday Party - Dec 12 @7:00 P.M.

Dates TBD:

• Gundam Model Making Event (Harmony) who would be interested?

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?