Revision as of 19:30, 10 February 2015

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
- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/lvl1
You can find all of our Meeting Minutes on our wiki: wiki.lvl1.org
Culture of Cleanliness
Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!

Woodshop mess again :(
NEVER TAKE THE SAFETIES OFF THE EQUIPMENT! (But if you need to, please put the safety back on.)
- If you don't know how to put the safety on, send an email to broken@lvl1.org!
Metal shop left in a mess. Grinders broken. Welding gas was left on and leaked out & money wasted.
- Regulars: when you're here throughout the week and notice someone new working in the shops, introduce yourself & encourage cleanliness
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!

MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 2/16 8pm)
TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 2/4 @ 7pm)
- Danielle will be demo-ing kits
THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 2/19
  - Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - 2/26 @ 8 PM
  - Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
  - Host: Probably Jose
  - Last week: Nazi Zombies in Swedish
  - This week: Logan's Run, Better Off Ted, & any other bad/distracting movie
  - Group Pizza order placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Louisville EAE (6pm)
  - Compete in Engineering, Arts, & Extreme Sports events & contests!
  - Contact Josh for more info!
  - EEXPO @ Speed School, paper airplane contest by Redbull, win a trip to Austria
  - https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouEAE/
SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group (2/15)
  - All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
  - Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!

MakerPlace Kids Group (MakerPlace @ Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana)
- http://www.gskentuckiana.org/Pathways/The-MakerPlace.aspx
- For boys & girls ages ~3rd grade to 8th grade with adult supervision
- February Events
  - Let's Make a Thing Workshop - 2/7: POV kit
  - Open Meeting & Making - 2/22
Hack-The-Space Hackathon - 2/6 @ 7 pm to 2/8 @ Noon
- Make the most useless yet pretty thing to add character to the space
- Two prizes to be awarded.
- Contact Patrick J.
Touch Designer Workshop - 2/21 @ 1pm - 3pm
- Visual node based editor, works with Oculus Rift, Kinect, etc.
- Contact Jason or Brad
LVL1 Wiki Create-a-thon - 2/21 starting at Noon
- Help LVL1 update our wiki!
- Punch & pie provided
- Contact Sean McPherson for more info
Lockpicking 101 - 2/28 @ Noon - 3 PM
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-lockpick-lvl1-tickets-15484620918
- Contact Adrian Crenshaw of http://www.irongeek.com/ and DerbyCon
February Makership Deadline - 2/28 @ 11:59 PM
- http://www.lvl1.org/makership/
Warm Glass Workshop - 3/28
- Contact Pat McCarthy
Surface Mount Soldering Workshop - 3/4 @ 8 PM
- Solder your own TV-B-Gone!
- No previous experience required!
- Contact Charles the Hat for more info
NEW 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. Contact Nathan.
Startup Weekend March 6 - 8.

Barrett is working on Plan B 3D printer as part of his research
Barrett is also working on an air curtain as well (?)
Sean put together a bluetooth multimeter. Has onboard data logging, etc. Dragon Innovations on Kickstarter
Sean looking for a bulk importer of generic insta-morph for space usage
Charles made a breakout board for the Atmel Xmega series microcontrollers leveraging the series' footprint consistency
- Comes with onboard regulator micro USB connection
Gary brought in poly-morph samples to play with
Gary modified 4 AA battery pack to 3 AA with room to store circuit boards in the empty slot. Handy little box
Gary made a frequency generator, trying to make a sub-aural sound to make people feeling a little unsettled
Jose is working towards building a character for an anime convention. Goal: make the person standing next to the character feel uncomfortable
- Meeting every Thursday @ 7:30. Code name project Junior.
- If costume is complete, Jose will face his fears of attending an anime convention.
Charles plugs the red oculus camera at LVL1. Please use it to take photos of your projects that upload to Flickr & youtube.
- WARNING: Don't take pictures you'd regret later...

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 = Space Upgrades =
-* <font color="red">Cody replenished hacker snack</font>
+* Laser cutter viewing glass cleaned
-* <font color="red">Brad brought in a donation of junk tablets for the boneyard</font>
-** <font color="red">Please use for space glorification projects! Do not squirrel them away and never use them :(</font>
-* <font color="red">Mini fridge for leaded solder paste on the soldering bench</font>
-* <font color="red">Brad replenished LVL1 stickers </font>
 = Space Downgrades =