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SCoW Report 2012-02-15

2012.February.17

Just a small group at the last SC(R)oW: Alan, Branwen, Lawrence, Budi, and yours truly. I guess the theme of the evening was heat. Lawrence cooked a PCB in his modified pizza oven. As you can see in the pic, the device tracked the heating profile pretty well. Unfortunately, it didn’t cool down quickly enough. [...]

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Maker at Work: Matt

2012.February.16

I watched Matt using his homebrew vacuum former and he kindly explained what he was doing. At the top of the device is an electric heater which heats a sheet of plastic until it’s pliable. Under the heated plastic is the mold. Once the plastic is soft enough, Matt drops it over the mold and [...]

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Soldering Workshop 2/13

2012.February.16

Ned had a really good turnout for his soldering workshop. People just kept showing up! Fortunately we had enough soldering irons to go around. Ned taught everyone the fundamentals of soldering and had them build an electronic firefly simulation (several LEDs driven by a microcontroller). Everyone managed to build a working circuit! Ned will be [...]

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Housewarming Pix! (Part II)

2012.February.14

The housewarming featured several great presentations. Willow kicked things off. Budi described upcoming events at JR. Josh Kopel talked about Dorkbot. Joshua Madara talked about meta magic. Robin taught us how to draw Celtic knots. Rob Flickenger related the epic Making Of story for his portable Tesla coil. Christin Boyd got everyone fired up about [...]

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Housewarming Pix! (Part I)

2012.February.14

Jigsaw Renaissance celebrated moving into its long-term home by throwing a housewarming party. It was a fun time with lots of cool people, yummy food, project demos, and interesting presentations. Part II coming soon with pictures from the presentations. Here’s a teaser:

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SCoW Report 2012-02-08

2012.February.14

SCoW this week was more about party prep and “infostructure” planning. With the housewarming party mere days away, people got busy beautifying the space. Meanwhile, a small committee met to discuss Jigsaw’s infostructure needs (e.g., membership software). There was some some soldering and coding going on too. Alan was getting the access control system ready [...]

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MLP Drawing/Sculpting Class (Feb. 4)

2012.February.14

(From the Better-late-than-never Dept. We had some issues with our web hosting; now I’m going through my backlog of posts.) Mike Humes taught about a dozen Bronies how to draw and sculpt My Little Ponies. Some of the results were pretty darn good! Watch for Mike’s next class.

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