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
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lvl1
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

Charles - Looking for above ground portable pool (15 ft diameter and hold water, 1-2 ft tall)
Space - Kill-a-watts for continued power monitoring

Makerbot Replicators
- Printrbot parts being fabbed
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!

MONDAY
- Sound Builders (fortnightly Mondays, next 9/28 @ 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)
WEDNESDAY
- Mednesday @ 7 PM
  - Learn LVL1's equipment from the inside out by helping repair and maintain tools
  - This week's focus: 3D printers
- MakerEd Educators MeetUp (1st Wed of the Month 10/7 @ 7pm)
THURSDAY
- Sewing Night - 3rd Thursday - 9/17
  - Bring a project, learn to sew!
- Drone Meetup - 4th Thursday - 9/24 @ 8 PM
  - Talk shop, fix your drone, and take flight!
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)
SUNDAY
- Game Dev Group
  - All game dev projects welcome! Collaborate with other teams or start your own!
  - Check http://gamedevlou.org/ for meeting announcements!

Louisville Mini Maker Faire - 9/19, 11 AM to 6 PM
- Call for Makers is OPEN!
- http://makerfairelou.org
DerbyCon - 9/23 thru 9/27
- Hacker & computer security conference
Officers and Directors' Meeting - 9/29 directly after the meeting (~9 PM)
- Watch the sausage that is LVL1 be made and contribute to leading LVL1
Inventor Con 2015 - 10/6
- Hosted by Central Kentucky Inventors Council in Lexington
Startup Weekend Louisville - 10/9 thru 10/11
- Build a startup business in a weekend
- http://www.up.co/communities/usa/louisville/startup-weekend/7306
- Contact Daniel or Nathan
Stupid Sh!t No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon - 10/10 thru 10/11
- Show corporate how it's done by building useless things for fun!
Women in STEM Meetup - 10/21
- Contact Beth for more details
The Second, 5th Annual Sumobot Competition - 10/30
- Join in the melee by bringing in your sumobot and compete for hacker street cred
- Costumes are greatly encouraged
Surface-mount TV-B-Gone workshops!
- By appointment, with Charles, $25, 2 hour time commitment.
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

Brian found a pattern to laser cut on 1/4" birch plywood that makes it bendy in 2 dimensions, also bounces
Sean returned from Burning Man. Community there was interested in LVL1, the tshirt, and blinky badge
Jared combined two broken box fans into one!
Josh bought an entry level quadcopter and has been playing around with it
Michael assembled his own battery box for a 12V LED strip
Gary brought in his fullsize Dalek replica and has upgraded it with lights
- Built a voice controlled box to light up the Dalek's lights while it is talking
- Had voice shaping/changing technology too
Gary also made a set of eyes that tracks objects using sonar signals in 2D