12/29/2015
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 Terry for your continued work on the woodshop
- Thank you Cody for cleaning around outside the new door and cleaning out the sand trap
- Thank you Ben & Terry for making the LVL1 vinyl sticker on the new door
- Thank you everyone involved with getting the door installed
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- Jared - 3.5" floppy drives (needs 8+) for making music
Space Upgrades
- New door!
Space Downgrades
- Makerbot Replicators
- New frame designed. Needs to be cut & reassembled. Everything else works.
- 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 1/4 @ 8pm)
- Night of The Hat (every other fortnightly Mondays, next 1/11 @ 8 PM)
- Learn to solder, work on Inter-hackerspace Battleship, Kittens, and open making
- 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 - 12/30
- Learn LVL1's equipment from the inside out by helping repair and maintain tools
- This week's focus: 3D printer repair
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 1/6 @ 7pm)
- Mednesday @ 7 PM - 12/30
- THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 1/21
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - (01/28) @ 8 PM
- Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 1/21
- 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
- December Makership Application Deadline - 12/31 @ 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
- Officers & Directors Election - 1/19
- Members: Voting starts 1/12, email your vote to secretary@lvl1.org
- Nominations end 1/11 at 8 PM
- Surface-mount TV-B-Gone workshops!
- By appointment, with Charles, $25, 2 hour time commitment.
- Robotics Education and Competition - February & April 2016
- 20,000 people from all over the world for youth robotics (vex) competition
- Need 800 - 1000 volunteers
- Do NOT have to know robotics and people as young as 10 can volunteer
- People with more knowledge can receive training and be judges or referees.
- Sign up / learn more at http://www.roboticseducation.org/volunteer
- Contact: Divinity
- 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
Meeting Notes
- Attendance:
- Meeting Start: 8:00 PM
- Meeting Stop:
- Tour Guide: Raj
- Notes Taken by: Nathan