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** Punch & pie provided
 
** Punch & pie provided
 
** Contact Sean McPherson for more info
 
** Contact Sean McPherson for more info
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* Engineer's Week at the Kentucky Science Center - 2/26 thru 2/28
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** Need LVL1 presence on 2/28. Bring your coolest gizmos and inspire young children!
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** Contact Danielle
 
* Lockpicking 101 - 2/28 @ Noon - 3 PM
 
* Lockpicking 101 - 2/28 @ Noon - 3 PM
 
** https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-lockpick-lvl1-tickets-15484620918
 
** https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-lockpick-lvl1-tickets-15484620918

Revision as of 19:17, 17 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
  • You can find all of our Meeting Minutes on our wiki: wiki.lvl1.org
  • Culture of Cleanliness
  • Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!

Equipment and Supplies Wanted

  • Kristen - Strawberry garden hanging baskets
  • Herman - Solidworks help
  • Cherith - K'nex
  • Justin - Solid state relay, 25A for reflow oven
  • Nathan - Pressure Washer (borrow)

Space Upgrades

Space Downgrades

  • Makerbot TAZ heating element dead
  • 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!

Regular Meetups

  • MONDAY
  • TUESDAY
    • LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
  • WEDNESDAY
    • MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 3/4 @ 7pm)
  • 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: Leverage (TV)
      • This week: Highlander and maybe Howard the Duck
      • Group Pizza order placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
    • Louisville EAE (6pm)
  • SUNDAY

Upcoming Workshops and Events

Project Roll Call

  • Hack the Space Hackathon Results
    • Jose tried to resurrect Father but fell short (last place)
    • Danielle made a beret with bat ears
    • Swinging couch installed
    • Charles the Hat
      • Cheated by making a laser cut LVL1 sign
      • Started a GIANT slide rule with roman numerals and does not slide...
    • Chris C. created Whopper. Raspberry Pi running Jasper (voice activation). Plays evil robot sound bites upon activation. Shows news stories. Check the github and lvl1 wiki for more info
    • Aaron made the hypnocloud: a multi color LED strip embedded into cotton/cloud-like material
    • Patrick & Ben made a "Bad Idea Robot". Press button to listen to bad ideas, but NEVER TAKE THE ROBOT SERIOUSLY!
  • Sean brought in a Raspberry Pi 2 for demonstration
  • Jared finished a solder your own amplifier kit that originally didn't work, but now it magically works
  • Devin made an acrylic stencil for Valentines day. Adds powdered glass to other glass to create stained glass artwork.
  • Brad got Debian running on the donated Viliv and got the touchscreen working. Needs XORG help.
  • James' card game is officially in production! Congrats!
  • Gary got a sub aural wave form running on a speaker. It's supposed to bother you in the background, but it may not be that disturbing after all...
  • Jose: Posting a bounty for legitimate films of space members prior to their hacker life (COPS included), home movies don't count!

Meeting Notes

  • Attendance: ~50
  • Meeting Start: 8:03 PM
  • Meeting Stop: 8:50 PM
  • Dinner: Ben made Taco Bar
  • Tour Guide: Cody
  • Notes Taken by: Nathan
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