My apologies for taking so long to get a post up about our last meeting.  The shortest and sweetest description of it I can give is, it was excellent.  To note before anything is said, I have the pictures at home.  They just aren’t put up yet.  I’ll edit the post and add them as soon as I can.

[Edit] As promised, pictures are now up.  Check out the Flickr and Facebook postings to see the rest.

We had a record number of people show up.  Quite well more than I think any of us expected.  A whole seven new people showed up, nearly doubling our attendance from the previous meetings.  To top it all off, four of those that showed up knew no one in the group previously, and found us entirely based on our web presence.  So welcome to all those that were brave enough to drop in.  For those that have yet to come, the new people showed up and left with all limbs intact.  We seriously try not to bite, and those that do are kept chained in the shed out back as pets.

In all the meetings seem to be improving as well.  We spent a bit of time covering various portions of our agenda, and had quite a bit more time dedicated to goofing off.  A few of us even managed to pick a lock or two this time around!  There was a lot of good discussion about the non profit status of the organization.  Some suggestions on places to go and people to contact about getting everything up and going.  There’s still a lot of research to be done, but we are certainly well on our way!  The idea was only thrown out there, but everyone definitely needs to be thinking and brainstorming about our bylaws as we’ll be working on our draft soon.  So everyone please keep the ideas rolling, we need every bit of help we can get.  At the end of it all, we finished what business there was to cover and really had a great time speculating what the group can accomplish and directions for it to head in.  Pretty much it came down to the idea that there is little we won’t be able to do.

Tactile Transducer Installed

This is one of the first projects that I attempted. The idea was to build a tactile transducer on the cheap that could be mounted to a couch. If your not familiar with a tactile transducer, it is a device designed to transmit vibrations instead of sound. It’s mounted to home theater seating to give you an extra punch during those low frequency booms.

To view more details of this project, check out my project log over on the wiki.

Cigar Box Guitar components

My current project was inspired by an article in the current issue (21) of Make Magazine – a Cigar box guitar.  My project log for this is up on the wiki.

EDIT: The project is complete and the log updated!  Everyone who was at the 2/12 meeting got to see (and hear) it in person.

Again we’ve survived another meeting.  Based on comments I’ve heard about the last meeting, this one was quite a bit shorter.  We were actually out of there by about 9:07 PM in comparison to our last time of 10:30 PM.  I think we just got a little over excited about how things were going.  Anyways to all of those who weren’t there or couldn’t make it, you were missed, and to all those that were, thanks for coming.

In all, we got a good bit done.  We discussed the MidSouth Con and our involvement there (people are still needed for this, projects too.)  We tried our hand at tying a few knots and braiding some rope for a nifty way to store it.  Other than that we spent a good deal of time chatting about what we’d like to do and ways that we can accomplish this.  Hopefully if new people keep showing up like they have thus far, we’ll be able to obtain a space sooner than we expect.

Thanks again to everyone for coming, see you next Friday, and don’t forget to try and find more of our fellow geeks!

A quick reminder: If there are any Makers that are going to MidSouthCon and haven’t registered yet, tomorrow is the last day to get a discounted rate.  At midnight the price goes up $5 to the at-the-door price of $45 for the weekend.