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How influential are you?

2013.May.22

Jigsaw Space Manager, Tim Clemans, has started a new GitHub project called Influence API to develop web services enabling developers to integrate optimized communications features in their apps. Fork the repository on GitHub here, and email Tim if you’d like to join the project.

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Making Jigsaw

2013.May.6

What a find Jigsaw member Steve made recently!  Seizing the opportunity to save some stuff from the dumpster while an Inscape Building neighbour was moving out, Steve found a number of gems that will enhance Jigsaw.  One of which is this piece of AV furniture which is sturdy with nice castors: If only we had a picture of [...]

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Elcano Vehicle Build Nears Completion

2013.April.30

Jigsaw’s resident autonomous vehicle expert, Tyler Folsom, nears completion of the build phase of his Elcano vehicle for the Elcano Autonomous Vehicle Project. Team Elcano is a sponsor of the Transportation Research Board‘s conference on challenges and opportunities for vehicle automation—one of the world’s biggest vehicle automation conferences.   Hosted by transportation research board of the [...]

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Game On for The Gamers!

2013.April.18

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment—prolific film company and Jigsaw coworking space member—is running a fantastic Kickstarter campaign. ZOE has engaged with a partner in Ontario, Canada, to film onsite two web miniseries projects set in the world of their existing film series “The Gamers”.  With work already happening on the new Gamers and Journey Quest series (in addition to [...]

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A Trilling Experience

2013.April.15

New member Steve set a goal to make a new flute from Pacific-Northwest-grown bamboo, and recently set out on a hunt for the perfect pipe. Here we see Steve after returning from a successful hunt and testing a first tone on a currently one-holed chi flute.  Work from here includes determining proper position for remaining holes [...]

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There’s a new [robotic] sheriff in town…

2013.April.11

Jigsaw’s own Tim Clemans hosted the King County Sheriff’s Office last night to demonstrate robots used by the Bomb Squad and SWAT teams.  Wow, what a great demonstration and crowd on hand for the festivities. The main robot on display here is made by iRobot, of Roomba fame.  The model seen here was used extensively in Iraq [...]

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Mask Making, Anyone?

2013.April.10

Jigsaw desk member Tamara Clammer is a professional mask maker and runs Face Odd Masks.  She also hosts the Seattle Leatherworking Meetup seen here in Jigsaw’s classroom:

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Shipping and Hacking

2013.April.9

Two exciting milestones are coming to fruition for Jigsaw members. Firstly, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, is preparing for a major event this Saturday. Check out the goings on: And here we have team Elcano lead Tyler showing off his new Mega Shield DB board. Prototyping the board via Eagle has completed, and he’s currently looking for [...]

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