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SCRoW Report 2013-01-30
Ed and Mike made their first visit to the ‘Saw. Ed brought along his work-in-progress robot. Ultimately he intends to mount an Android device to give his robot vision capability. He and Mike told me a...
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10 Types of People…
I occasionally volunteer with the Big-Brained Superheroes Club, an after-school program for young people. The other day, the kids were learning about binary numbers and I thought to myself, “Self, you...
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Teardown Thursdays Report 2013-01-31
Ned’s current project is the old pipetting machine that’s been sitting around for a while. The pipetting stuff is gone, but what remains is a 3-axis machine that’s begging to be turned into some sort...
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Happy 10011th Birthday, Danny!
This week’s SCRoW was enlivened by a surprise birthday celebration for Danny. Jigsaw’s resident whiz-kid turned 19, so there were five candles on the cake, some lit, some dark, in the pattern...
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3D Printing Comes to Jigsaw!
New Jigsaw desk member Scott is a 3D printing enthusiast. He brought in practically all the components of a Prusa printer, shown here laid out on his desk. Note in particular the extra-powerful NEMA 17...
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Space is limited for Scott’s inaugural 3D printer workshop on Saturday. Over the course of five hours, you will build your very own 3D printer. Email Scott for more information and to reserve your...
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Circuit Board Cookies!
Monica is busy making circuit board cookies for tonight’s Arduino meetup. They’re so realistic!
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Arduino Meetup Report
The Arduino Meetup met at Jigsaw last Friday. The night’s project was to make strands of EL (electroluminescent) wire beat to members’ own pulses. Using the Arduino-compatible pulse sensor, available...
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Busy Monday Afternoon
Jigsaw Renaissance was fairly buzzing with activity this afternoon. Ben & co. were feverishly preparing for this evening’s screening of a rough cut of Gamers. There was some cross-pollination going...
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Organ Donation
Desk member Tom spent part of Tuesday happily hacking on some old relay boards salvaged from a defunct pipe organ. These devices were used to switch ranks of pipes in and out, but who knows what new...
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May Day SCRoW Report
Pictured above is Akisa from Germany (his hackerspace: RaumZeitLabor). He’s traveling down the coast doing a tour of hackerspaces. Jigsaw was his first stop. Here he’s talking to Meredith, Tom, and...
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Thursday evening shenanigans
On Thursdays, Ned comes in and either tears something down (for educational purposes) or fixes something up. I’m not sure what tonight’s activity counts as. He brought in a Big Mouth Billy Bass, and...
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SCRoW + Arduino Meetup!
The Seattle Arduino Meetup met up at Jigsaw last night, bringing in lots of people. Not a lot of SCRoW activity, as everyone wanted to hear Bob Harris’s presentation on the internals of the Arduino IDE...
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With the help of Steve Devine, I cobbled together a proof-of-concept door lock (or more precisely, a doorknob-turner). It’s a small step toward a “keyless” entry system. As you can see, it works, but...
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Raspberry Pi and SCRoW
I saw a video on how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a laptop of sorts. It sounded neat, so I bought an Atrix 4G dock and the requisite cables. Last night, Danny helped me splice the cables together per...
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Making stuff at the Saw
A small sample of the stuff people are making at Jigsaw nowadays: Anton’s been building a 3-D printer with Scott’s help. Here’s Anton putting the finishing touches on it: Danny’s been working on a...
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Today in the classroom, the Seattle Retro-Computing Society will be hosting a four-way joint meeting with the Puget Sound Commodore Users’ Group (PSCUG), the Portland Commodore Users’ Group (PDXCUG),...
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More Raspberry Pi News
One day after a successful inaugural Raspberry Pi meetup, JR hosted Rob Bishop of raspberrypi.org. Rob’s been barnstorming across the country to talk about the Raspberry Pi. He spoke for about two...
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Leatherworking Meetup
Tamara Clammer led another successful leatherworking meetup tonight. Participants managed to twist a strip of leather into a braid (apparently by magic)! Next Seattle Leatherworking Meetup: October 1st.
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