02/10/2015
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
- Kristen - Strawberry garden hanging baskets
- Herman - Solidworks help
- Cherith - K'nex
- Justin - Solid state relay, 25A for reflow oven
Space Upgrades
- New tables
- Laser cutter viewing glass cleaned
- Boneyard about 1 more week away from being completely done
Space Downgrades
- 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 2/16 8pm)
- 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!
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 2/19
- 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)
- 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 (2/15)
- All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
- Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!
- Game Dev Group (2/15)
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
- February Events
- Open Meeting & Making - 2/22
- Touch Designer Workshop - 2/21 @ 1pm - 3pm
- Visual node based editor, works with Oculus Rift, Kinect, etc.
- Contact Jason
- LVL1 Wiki Create-a-thon - 2/21 starting at Noon
- Help LVL1 update our wiki!
- Punch & pie provided
- Contact Sean McPherson for more info
- Lockpicking 101 - 2/28 @ Noon - 3 PM
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-lockpick-lvl1-tickets-15484620918
- Contact Adrian Crenshaw of http://www.irongeek.com/ and DerbyCon
- February Makership Deadline - 2/28 @ 11:59 PM
- Surface Mount Soldering Workshop - 3/4 @ 8 PM
- Solder your own TV-B-Gone!
- No previous experience required!
- Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surface-mount-tv-b-gone-workshop-tickets-15627326755
- Contact Charles the Hat for more info
- Startup Weekend Louisville - March 6 @ 6:30 PM thru March 8 @ 9 PM, FirstBuild
- 54 hour marathon to start a business, food & drink provided
- Sign up: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-louisville-030615-tickets-15192710807
- More info: http://www.up.co/communities/usa/louisville/startup-weekend/5603
- Business presentations start on March 8 at 5 PM
- Contact Daniel
- Warm Glass Workshop - 3/28
- Contact Pat McCarthy
- 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. Contact Nathan.
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: Jared
- Notes Taken by: Nathan