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I've scheduled Meeting 2 for Thursday May 8th, same bat time, same bat location. I'll be posting in the Forum shortly for people to sign up for any talks / presentations anybody wants to give but the main focus of this meeting will be soldering lessons. I'm excited about this since I just learned to solder. I think I'd like to choose a small project we can all build along with some general soldering lessons. More details in the Forum soon but I wanted to get the date out there as s… Continue

Meeting 1 is scheduled for April 2nd from 6pm to ???. Whoohoo!

See this forum post for more info and to give any comments or questions about the meeting!

More specific details coming in a day or so. Start telling people!

Make: has an article in last month's issue and another online that talks about hacker work spaces, places where the members of a hacker club like the IPL can go to do their projects. This is something I'd love to do with this club, have a place for members to go work. Not everybody has space to work at home or the tools needed to do so. Since we've just started up this probably won't happen for awhile but if… Continue

I just got this email from UNM Continuing Ed I thought some of you might be interested in. It's a Digital Arts Conference this weekend at UNM. If you go, post about it in the Forums. If it's a regular thing and there's interest, I can try to get a group discount or something. Here's the pertinent info from the email:

Digital Arts Conference
March 1, 2008
Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm
Fee: $139
Enroll… Continue

Wow, there's a been great response to the launch of the Lab. We have 20+ people either signed up or who I know will sign up soon. That's better than I thought. So I'm starting to plan a regular meeting where we can get together and see what people want to do for future meetings. For now though, I encourage you to visit the Forums and to upload some pictures and/or videos for your fellow members to check out. I want to see what people are up to! We've already got a couple of good discussions goin… Continue