Come on down to the space Saturday, November 9th at 4pm we will be doing a LAN party with the game Team Fortress 2, which is now free for download. Please install it before you show up as it will take forever to download at the space. Go to Steampowered.com to download it.

If you don’t want to game, but want to work on your rig, bring it down and work on it.
Also, if you have spare PC parts, bring’m and we’ll put them on the swap table.  You might be able to trade for something better, or just sell it (or donate it to someone whose rig is in poor shape).

Are your projects multiplying like rabbits?  Do you have a pile of half-finished project just laying around, waiting for the eventual heat death of the universe?  Does your backlog make you just want to hide in a cozy little hole in the side of a hill?  Does the prospect of finishing anything seem like a distant and epic adventure?  Join us at LVL1 on Friday, October 25th for Finish It Friday! From 6pm on Friday until 8am on Sunday, folks from all over will be gathering at LVL1 for a truly epic quest: Finishing something.  We’ll be watching movies with hobbits, and setting stuff on fire for over 14 hours, so stop by, have a slice of pizza, and get something done!

Seriously, that’s all there is to it: Stop by sometime on Friday Evening/Saturday Morning, eat some pizza, watch some hobbits, try to finish a project, or try to help someone else finish a project. See you all there!

This weekend, LVL1 is hosting ShareLab’s Raspberry Pi Hackathon!  We’ve got seven teams competing to build the coolest Raspberry Pi Project in 2 days.  Stop on by and see what’s cooking, or check out our Flickr Feed for all-day-updates!

This is what the teams are working on:

Spite Jose by Cheating …
Project: Photo Booth w/ the Power of Pi
Members: Aaron, Joe (and Aaron’s parents)

Dirty Rotten Cheaters …
Project: Grunt Master 6000, the general … universal
Members: Jose

Christmas Past …
Project: working with automotive on-board diagnostics, scraping info, detecting information and displaying to a user.
Members: Tim (web development), Barton (perl stuff and shell hacking)

Pi Rookies …
Project: Backup Camera for a car, shared w/ clients via ad-hoc wireless network
Members: Greg

Elephant Tango …
Project: dual server hosting 1) web interface & 2) Node controller (arduino, etc.). The Web app will send commands to node controller to read data and turn on lights, etc.
Members: Barry (Web development), Mark (embedded systems, firmware)

Jose’s Angels …
Project: Sorting Conveyor utilizing visual recognition (OpenCV)
Members: Nathan, Katie (engineer of the streets), John (elec & hardware engineering)

E to the Pi I …
Project: Possibly wireless video casting, computer to Pi, etc.
Members: John, Michael, Kelly

LVL1—your community nonprofit hack space—in partnership with New2Lou—your favorite local social organization—is competing in the National Red Bull Day of Flugtag in Chicago on September 21st as Team New2Flug. Check out the grandeur that is homemade flying contraptions here: at RedBull Flugtag. More importantly, the entire Bluegrass is resting on our “wings” as we are the sole team representing our great state of Kentucky. The plan is to build our own giant Pegasus (the symbol of our greatest sporting event—the Kentucky Derby) complete with a rider and a LVL1-designed wing. This whole thing will get shoved off of a 30-foot runway located on Lake Michigan along the Chicago shoreline with our pilot and wings first doing some gliding and then ending with what we can only hope will be a spectacular crash landing.

So far, we have worked purely with donated material and volunteered engineering and build time. The point is simple: WE NEED YOU!

You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help represent YOUR state and YOUR city in a contest that will be simulcast live in front of more than five million people. For more information (and to donate!) check out our crowdfunding video which can be found at Louisville Flugtag on Rocket hub. Also, feel free to come by LVL1 and participate in the building every Monday and Thursday at 6pm.

Thank so much for any and all help and support you can give us.

Kentucky’s only and Louisville’s own,

Nu2Flug

Some Key Event Times for Public Participation!

9/9 Nu2Flug Build Day at LVL1

9/11 Nu2Flug send off party at the Garage Bar!

9/16 Nu2Flug Build Day at LVL1

9/21 RedBull Flugtag Competition Live

On August 24th, from 3 to 6 PM, LVL1 will be hosting a health data brainstorming hackathon in association with the Knight Foundation, XLerateHealth, Greater Louisville Enterprise Corp, Louisville Quantified Self, University of Louisville School of Public Health, and University of Louisville Health Sector Management MBA Program!

The focus of this hackathon will be to brainstorm ideas and discover talent associated with completing the Knight Foundation’s Health and Communities challenge.  Food and drink will be provided, so come on down, and talk about ideas that could win Louisville a seat at the table in this competition.  The Knight Foundation is giving $5 million to some of the best ideas nationwide, and this is the start!  Learn more about the competition at https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/healthdata/brief.html

If you’re interested, sign up here: http://knchealthlouisville.eventbrite.com

Entry is free, and food and drink will be provided.  Got ideas on how Louisville can use data to form a healthier community? Show up on the 24th!

WE have 2 new Fall 2013 Co-ops: Yitzhak (Isaac) Gebru and Caleb Sheehan. They are new LVL1 members! Lets give them a welcome…

Here they are testing out the Seebeck effect.

Friday, August 16, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Learn how to assemble and solder your own solarbotics freeduino. The cost of this workshop covers the materials cost for a freeduino microcontroller kit. Your assembled Freeduino is yours to keep! Use the vast open resources of the LVL1 and Arduino community to come up with your own electronic applications.
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/7727732857
Limited Seating! Come for the workshop stay for the horrible movie afterwards.

On July 1st at 7PM, LVL1 will be hosting a talk by serial entrepreneur and KY Small Business Development Center associate state director Gordon Garrett to help hackers and makers navigate the often-difficult business world and to understand how individuals successfully go from idea to startup.

Gordon Garrett of the KSBDC

With 15 service centers statewide and an experienced and knowledgeable staff, the Kentucky Small Business Development Center provides unparalleled consulting and training services that help existing business owners and potential entrepreneurs succeed.  Their services include one-on-one management consultations, training workshops, market research, loan packaging help, assistance with financial projections and information needed to make informed business decisions.  With a team of dozens of analysts, researchers, and business specialists, Gordon helps individuals and business at all stages, from business planning and market research to financial analysis and marketing solutions.  Gordon has served as a strategic business advisor, CEO and board member for numerous high-tech start-up ventures and high-growth companies and has launched and managed to acquisition six successful technology companies of his own.

If you’re curious about how the business world works and want to learn how to access the resources critical to any successful startup, you’ll want to come see Gordon speak on July 1st at 7PM at LVL1!

Friday, July 5th, LVL1 Celebrates its third anniversary of having a physical space! We’ve been at 814 E. Broadway since July 1st, 2010, so LVL1 is now officially 3 years old!

Come to LVL1 at 7pm on July 5th and help us celebrate 3 years past, and many years to come!  There’ll be food, beverage, lasers, and fire! All are welcome! LVL1 has a lot to celebrate, with over 60 members, and a huge community of people working on everything from Raspberry Pi to Arduino to Bees to Chemical Scrubbers to Solar Panels to Costumes to Pizza.

LVL1 is located at 814 E. Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky.  Plenty of parking behind the building, off Shelby Street, and the entrance is off the rear alley.  Come one, come all, and help us celebrate everything about the hackerspace movement! Thanks for three great years, and hack on, Louisville!

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(Shirt is actually two sided, contrary to picture)

Only probably available for the next two weeks! Order now or miss out FOREVER!

http://meatandnetworking.com/lvl1shirt2013/  <—- ORDER HERE

For the next two weeks, we’ll be taking orders for LVL1 T-Shirts.  This year’s, “Probably Safe”, was designed by Joseph.  Thanks so much Joseph!

As always, LVL1 is the multicolored hackerspace: You get to pick the color of your shirt! We’ve got four different styles available, with lots of different colors for each.  New this year, we’ll even ship your shirt! Add one “Shipping” item to your cart before you check out, and we’ll even mail it to you (mailed shirts won’t make it to Makerfaire, sorry!)  Most shirts are only $11!

So buy now, and buy often! http://meatandnetworking.com/lvl1shirt2013/