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3D Printing Comes to Jigsaw!

2013.February.8

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 stepper motors, the Smoothie controller board, and the roll of <hushed tone>nylon 618</hushed tone>. (Oooooh.) If none of that made [...]

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Happy 10011th Birthday, Danny!

2013.February.8

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 on-off-off-on-on (19 in binary). Many happy returns, Danny!

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Teardown Thursdays Report 2013-01-31

2013.February.3

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 of CNC tool. All Ned has to do is figure out how to control it. He has determined that there [...]

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10 Types of People…

2013.January.31

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 should build an electronic binary-to-decimal converter, with LEDs and toggle switches. Yeah!” So I did. Well, building it was fun, and I could spend [...]

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SCRoW Report 2013-01-30

2013.January.31

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 bit about Android programming, which they made sound kind of fun.Speaking of Android programming, Pat was busy at a [...]

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Leather Mask Workshop Report

2013.January.31

New Jigsaw member Tamara led a workshop on making leather masks, and I attended. The first step was creating the outline of the mask. After several iterations of sketching designs on paper and cutting them out, I ended up with something I thought was reasonable. I traced the design onto a piece of vegetable-tanned leather [...]

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SCRoW Report 2013-01-16

2013.January.19

New member Rick worked on a little Arduino project, controlling a servo by analog joystick. First-time visitor Brian showed us a little sensor board that communicates with his phone via BlueTooth. Pretty cool! The usual suspects were there too. I worked on a little binary number toy for the Big-Brained Superheroes Club, where I volunteer. [...]

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Farewell to Sam

2013.January.19

On 1/13, Sam Farrazaino was surprised by a large group of INScape denizens who had gathered at Jigsaw to bid him adieu. After he recovered from his shock, he gave a heartfelt little speech, we had some food and drink, and wandered down the hall to hear Mark Nettleton and the Bitsyras Band. Sam’s hard [...]

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