09/16/2014
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
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Jared) POTS Phones
- (Wilcox) 7 inch Harmonic Balancer x4 for EAE trebuchet
- (Justin) Broken (vintage?) radio for Raspberry Pi
- (Adam) Trailer 4' x 8', super cheap
Space Upgrades
- 3D printing / laser cutting supplies shelf replaced
- Safer: not top heavy, more sturdy
- Added two spool holders, labels
- Laser cutter scraps underneath
- Milling machine & Sander repaired (Thanks Daniel!)
Space Downgrades
- Belt sander belt lost a tooth. Then it lost most of the other teeth.
- Sander belt is on order
- 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 toilet paper and soap!
Regular Meetups
- MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 9/15 8pm)
- TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 10/1 @ 7pm)
- THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 9/18/2014
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 9/18/2014
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- Host: ???
- Movie: ???
- Group Pizza order placed at 7:30 pm ($7/person)
- Louisville EAE (6pm)
- Compete in Engineering, Arts, & Extreme Sports events & contests!
- Host: Joshua M Wilcox
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouEAE/
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Now meeting irregularly. Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- Start Up Weekend Louisville - 9/19 thru 9/21
- Need help from LVL1 to man some tools
- http://louisville.startupweekend.org
- DerbyCon - September 24 - 28
- https://www.derbycon.com/
- The event is sold out
- Tickets have been emailed to those helping with the LVL1 table
- Still looking for member projects to show off
- Louisville Mini Maker Faire - September 27, 10AM - 10PM
- Applications for Exhibits: http://makerfairelou.org/makers/2014-maker-application/
- September Makership Deadline - 9/30 at 11:59pm
- More info about the Makership program at http://www.lvl1.org/makership
- SumoBot Tournament and Halloween Party - 11/1/14 (Sat after Halloween) More info to come. Save the date. Start building your bot.
- Lots of Sumobot Information - Sumobots
Project Roll Call
5 Minute Maintenance and Cleaning
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~60
- Meeting Start: 8:05 pm
- Meeting Stop: 8:35 pm
- Dinner: Ben cooked chicken, squash, and zucchini
- Tour Guide: Cody
- Notes Taken by: Nathan A.
- First Time Visitor Info
- Welcome all new folks!
- Equipment & Supplies Wanted
- Danielle no longer needs PCBs
- Justin is looking for a broken radio to put a Raspberry Pi in
- Adam looking for a trailer 4' x 8', super cheap
- Space Upgrades
- Laser cutter filter cleaned
- Door locking mechanism received. Hopefully RFID system will be working tonight or tomorrow
- Space Downgrades
- LEDs above snack bar fell and broke
- Power cords need to be hung
- Regular Meetups
- October 25th, Lucid computer training from
- Movie night, last Friday: Watched Big Trouble in Little China. This Friday: Howard the Duck unless another better movie comes up (again)
- Upcoming Workshops & Events
- Girl Scouts Makerspace is having their first Open Meeting & Making this Thursday night
- Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire this weekend
- Project Roll Call
- Jared found a record player and is making a table for it. Making impromptu window screens and his bluetooth phone stuff.
- Chris C. has been working with Jasper to resurrect Mother! Successfully reverse engineered all the protocols for the LED signs donated.
- Nathan explains his new 3d printer mods
- Sean went to Burning Man and repped LVL1 with his projects
- Fast talking, kilt wearing, sword weilding man is practicing for his world record attempt to open champagne bottles with a large knife
- James needs help with purchasing UPC codes
- Bill looking for utility dolly
- Someone is looking for load cell help measuring grip strength