01/06/2015
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!
Equipment and Supplies Wanted
- (Michael) - Broken black Xbox 360 & controllers
- (Josh)- Burnin down the house donations - Save thanksgiving and Christmas
- No longer taking donations.
Space Upgrades
- Metal shop now operational
- Thank you Patrick, Tim, Aaron, & Charles S. for your help!
- Received some Mill Upgrades (Thanks, Community Foundation!)
- Nothing new added.
Space Downgrades
- 3D printer Computer Melted
- Media interface melted because it had no current protection. Computer will be tested after meeting.
- Big Laser Bed is Unlevel
- Small cuts will work.
- 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!
- Nothing new added.
Regular Meetups
- MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 1/19 8pm)
- TUESDAY
- LVL1 Open Meeting & Making (Tuesday 8pm)
- WEDNESDAY
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 1/7 @ 7pm)
- THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 1/15
- Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 1/15
- FRIDAY
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- Host: ???
- Movie: Archer season 5 or some other terrible movie
- Group Pizza order placed at 7:30 pm (~$7/person)
- Last Friday: almost viewed Howard the Duck, instead watched the Host
- Louisville EAE (6pm)
- Compete in Engineering, Arts, & Extreme Sports events & contests!
- Contact Josh for more info!
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouEAE/
- Irregular Movie and Open Build Night (8pm)
- SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group (1/18)
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group (1/18)
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- MakerPlace Kids Group (MakerPlace @ Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana)
- http://www.gskentuckiana.org/Pathways/The-MakerPlace.aspx
- For boys & girls ages ~3rd grade to 8th grade with adult supervision
- January Events
- Thursday: Open Meeting & Making @ 4pm - 8pm
- Autodesk Fusion 360 Workshop - 1/14 - 7pm
- Free workshop!
- Download Fusion 360 ahead of time, bring your laptop
- Officer and Director Elections - 1/20 - 8pm
- Members, nominate now!
- Nominations end 1/13!
- Hardware Startup Meetup - 1/26 - 6:30pm @ FirstBuild
- Anyone Interested in Hardware startups is welcome!
- Sean McPherson - As yet unscheduled Wiki content create-a-thon.
- January Makership Deadline - 01/31 @ 11:59 PM
- LAN War in 2 weeks
- Pat M. looking for interest in warm glass workshop
- Charles L. is hosting another surface mount soldering workshop
- Patrick J. will be starting introductory MIG welding classes again
- Mixed Pivot meeting happening in about a month
Project Roll Call
- Nathan is working on Arduino alarm clock for a month long workshop
- Nathan is also working with CC3200 launchpad kit
- Concrete canoe form is coming in!
- Laptop repaired and owner brought in cookies as thanks for the help
- People are recreating city of Louisville in minecraft. Jared is working on it!
- Jose is heading up an effort to make up a character for an April Anime convention to combine sewing workshop, LARPing, and other LVL1 interests
- Looking for volunteers. Josh claimed it on the spot!
- Some one is working on a laser cut loom helper
- Patrick made duct and louvers for metal shop using cut off saw and hammer.
- Brad is home brewing beer again and has problems with soggy beer cases. Building wooden beer cases using laser cutter.
- Someone needs corrugated plastic for guinea pig
- Someone made a box to put a speaker in. Starting new project to 3D print a vacuum molder.
- Gary and Dan are working on a vacuum table.
- Daniel is trying to figure out what sodas they want at the space
- Someone is working on a startup, ISeeLou.com, aggregating Louisville video into one place
Meeting Notes
- Attendance: ~50
- Meeting Start: 8:00 PM
- Meeting Stop:
- Dinner:
- Tour Guide:
- Notes Taken by: Nathan A.