-- Three Huntsville startups are teaming up to resurrect the

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Francisco Guerra, shown in a 2008 photo with one of the clouds made by his invention, Flogos. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

The organization, initially founded in 1990 by inventor Francisco Guerra, ran nearly weekly for more than 20 years before Guerra put it on hold a year ago to focus on new business endeavors.

A serial inventor, Guerra says he holds patents on about five percent of his "couple hundred" inventions. He's most famous as the inventor of

, a snow machine used in many movies. He now heads

, an intellectual property firm that's worked with brands such as Apple, Disney, Ferrari and IBM. Guerra also invented

-- which makes clouds out of a soap mixture -- and

, a cardboard coaster that detects if a drink contains a date rape drug.

A native of South Florida and current resident of Lexington, Ala., Guerra said he receives nearly a dozen phone calls a week from people who have invention ideas but aren't sure what to do next. They could either pay his $275 fee, or come to the inventor's club for free. The group meets in a fabrication laboratory called

.

Rocket City Inventors Club held its first monthly meeting in January. Before moving to Alabama, he created a sister inventors club in Florida, which he says sometimes had as many as 1,000 attendees.

"I think what's exciting about it is just finding all these engineers in Huntsville," he said. "Can you imagine what kind of group we could have if we help each other make it?"

The next meeting will be March 2 at MindGear Labs.