05/07/2013

First time Visitor Info

• Prime Directive: Be Excellent to Each Other
• PARK ONLY IN THE ORI LOT OR ON THE STREET
  • If you park in our neighbors private lot, they will block you in for fun.
• Waivers of Liability - Please sign if you have not already
• Our website / calendar is http://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 at http://wiki.lvl1.org

Equipment and Supplies Wanted

• (Muddy Tech) Computers P4 or higher and LCD Monitors
  • Posted 11/13/12
• (Chris O) - Gazing Ball for Van de Graaff generator
  • Posted 3/26/13
• (Brian W) - Large Black Trench Coat for EL Wire coolness
  • Posted 3/26/13
• (Brad L) - Small square switches (buttons) for vending machines
  • Posted 4/23/13
• (Dan) - cold vacuum test chamber
  • Posted 4/23/13
• (Aaron) - 1GB flash drives for USB RAID experiments
  • Posted 4/30/13
• (Chris C.) - water pump
  • Posted 5/7/13
• (Divinity) - flower pots, any kind
  • Posted 5/7/13
• (Joseph) - Hoveround or similar mobility scooter
  • Posted 5/7/13

Space Upgrades

• Sheet metal sheer repaired
• Laser cutter fan replaced and working. Thanks, Bill
• Big room no longer has a junk pile in the middle, Thanks, Ben and Josh

Space Downgrades

• Member Shelving COLLAPSE

Regular Meetups

• Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 5/13 8pm)
• LVL1 Open Meeting & Making every (Tuesday 8pm)
• Muddytech Computer training (upstairs Thurs 6pm) Looking for students
  • Muddytech SIG every 3rd Wednesday
• Game Dev Group (Sundays 12pm)
• MakerEd Louisville (First Wed of the Month next 6/5 7pm)
• KYOSS Monthly Meeting (2nd Wed of the Month 5/15 6:30pm)
• Friday Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (Friday ~7pm)
• SWF Space Work Fun (Last Saturday of the Month next 5/25 1pm)
• Guinness World Record (Last Saturday of the month next 5/25 2pm pending op meeting.)
• Java Workshop (possibly a new regular meet up, starting 5/27)

Upcoming Workshops and Events

• Ron Wechsler Remembrance
  • May 11th, Noon - 2pm

• OWASP - Open source application security
  • May 14 before Tues mtg.
  • OWASP.org

• Vogt Awards Application Deadline May 17th
  • http://www.vogtawards.com/
  • Local hardware / manufacturing prize
  • $20K seed funding, $100K Demo Day prize, RPC access, 10-week course in manufacturing

• MOSSCON - Open Source Conference
  • May 18-19th, U of L Student Center
  • Need LVL1 projects to show off, talk to Brad or KYOSS folks.

• Great Boneyard Swaparound - May 25th, Noon - ???
  • Swaping the Boneyard for the deep dead room

• Hot and Spicy Fest - May 18th 7pm
  • Hate your face with a spicy potluck

• FPGA/VHDL Workshop
  • June 1st Noon - 4pm
  • Cost: $70 (Will leave with Dev Board, Software & Knowledge)
  • http://lvl1-fpgaworkshop.eventbrite.com
  • Limit: 15 people

• National Day of Civic Hacking - Hack for Change Louisville
  • June 1st 9am-5pm
  • http://t.co/sSsLsEbxsm

• YSS - Youth Science Summit - June 15 - 9am-5pm-ish
  • Looking for folks to create/lead a making/hacking/engineering lab
  • Idea is to meet with HS/MS students, guide them toward STEM higher education or careers
  • At the Science Center and Lexmark Campus, contact Joseph: jclagg@gmail.com. Free food.

• Hackathon! - Suicidal Robots
  • July 13th

• Maker Faire Detroit - July 27th - 28th
  • Call for Makers is open!

• Mini Maker Faire Louisville
  • Sept 28th

5 Minute Maintenance and Cleaning

• List on the main whiteboard

Project Roll Call

• Devin - Computer Project
• Divinity - Bike Wheel Pot Rack
• Gary - Plotter made from two old scanners, now with disconnected lines, and jog features!
• Chris C. - GPS and Sonar equipped bike gadget for mapping dangerous routes for bikes
• Jose - Variety of scary high voltage contraptions
• Joseph - RC Col. Sanders

Post Meeting Notes

• Attendance: 40
• Meeting Start: 8:05 pm
• Meeting Stop: 8:46 pm
• Tour Guide: Chris C.
• Dinner: Divinity and Ben are making fajitas