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= Meeting Notes = | = Meeting Notes = |
Revision as of 21:41, 3 November 2015
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
- Minors must be attended by Parent/Guardian!
Shout Outs
- Thank you Brian on the Sumobot Tournament
- Thank you window insulation crew: Jose, Daniel, Michael, and others
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- Cave Troll - Whole working BMX bike, 20" wheels
Space Upgrades
- Laser cutter working
- Slime/mold infestation caused by not cleaning the water out
- Replaced water pump in laser cutter chiller
- Flushed the water system
- Laser tube has blue growth in the tube, keep an eye out on performance
Space Downgrades
- Makerbot Replicators
- Testing electronics this week - has been delayed due to Laser-Chiller-Gate
- 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
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 11/9 @ 8pm)
- TUESDAY
- Learn-a-Thing Workshops (Tuesday 6pm)
- Learn how to use a tool at LVL1 before the meeting (informal setting; great for first-timers!)
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- Learn-a-Thing Workshops (Tuesday 6pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- Mednesday @ 7 PM
- Learn LVL1's equipment from the inside out by helping repair and maintain tools
- This week's focus: Laser cutter
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 11/4 @ 7pm)
- Mednesday @ 7 PM
- THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 11/19
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - (UNKNOWN - CONFLICT WITH THANKSGIVING) @ 8 PM
- Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 11/19
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- Watch a terrible movie and ignore your project! Or maybe work on your project and ignore a terrible movie... The choice is yours.
- Group Pizza order often placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- LVL1 Purge-a-thon - 11/2 thru 11/6
- Members: Please label your stuff or put it on your shelf before November 1st
- Everyone: Please help us sort out the mess in the boneyard and clear room for more workspace
- Arduino 101 Workshop - 11/7, 12PM - 4PM
- Learn the basics of Arduino and electronics to kickstart your next project
- Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arduino-101-workshop-tickets-18895685504
- Contact: Nathan
- Officer's & Director's Meeting - 11/17 @ 9PM
- Watch the LVL1 sausage get made in this less-than-thrilling meeting
- Holy Smokes Hackathon - 11/17 thru 11/24
- Over 31,000 abandoned buildings catch fire every year and Louisville is not immune
- Spend a whole week developing a smart smoke detector prototype that can alert Metro Govt when an abandoned building is on fire
- Cash prizes up for grabs
- Contact Nathan or Daniel
- LVL1 Thanksgiving Dinner - 11/26
- Get away from your relatives or make some new ones at LVL1 during this event.
- Enjoy Turkey and a slew of side dishes. Please contribute dishes if you can.
- November Makership Application Deadline - 11/30 @ 11:59 PM
- Submit your project for a chance to win 3 months of membership and $100 toward your project
- Apply at www.lvl1.org/makership
- Surface-mount TV-B-Gone workshops!
- By appointment, with Charles, $25, 2 hour time commitment.
- REC - Robotics Education and Competition Foundation will hold regional competition in February and World Championship in Louisville in April (Thunder Weekend) - they bring 20,000 people from all over the world for youth robotics (vex) competition and need 800 - 1000 volunteers - please consider volunteering or having your whole company get involved - do NOT have to know robotics and people as young as 10 can volunteer and put on resume as extracurricular activities which looks great applying to colleges - people with more knowledge can receive training and be judges or referees. Sign up / learn more at http://www.roboticseducation.org/volunteer Contact: Divinity
- 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, just send email to learn@lvl1.org
Project Roll Call
- Charles completed Hypnotoad prototype
- Jared shows off his light responding to music
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~35
- Meeting Start: 8:02pm
- Meeting Stop:
- Dinner:
- Tour Guide: Raj
- Notes Taken by: Nathan