Matt Grommes's Blog (7)

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! Continue

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

Welcome to everybody visiting from the Duke City Fix! This site is very similar to how the DCF works so please feel free to look around and if the club interests you, please sign up! We're just starting out so the more new ideas the better. Sign Up Here Thanks for visiting! Continue

Welcome to the Idea Propulsion Lab. I'm Matt Grommes, creator of the Lab. Right now we're an Albuquerque-based club but don't let that scare you away if you're from out of town. We're just getting started around here so please look around and excuse the mess. There's not much here yet but that's where you come in! Please sign up and make yourself at home. The Forum is probably the best place to start, introduce yourself, ask some quest… Continue