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2012.September.4

Board meeting tonight! Our monthly meeting in which we discuss the ins and outs of Jigsaw operations. Bring pom poms and beer! Followed by project night, where you can… work on projects! Wednesday night is Dorkbot, our friends doing strange things with electricity. This month’s theme is Material Culture, with talks on how objects enunciate [...]

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We won 1st place. :)

2012.June.6

Background Story: Jigsaw Renaissance and Team RaaSIO are developing an autonomous vehicle, and we competed in the SRS Robothon: Robo-Magellan Competition on self-navigating robot. Robo-Magellan Project started by forming around the idea of implementing A.I. We won 1st place. First of all, Congratulations to the team for contributions (big and small) to get to this [...]

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Seattle Mini Maker Faire: Great Success!

2012.June.6

Seattle Mini Maker Faire was amazing, in no small part thanks to the JR members who staffed the soldering station. Here’s some fan mail: Thank you for running the soldering station at Seattle Mini Maker Faire. Please thank the nice woman [Amber –mp] for the special attention that she showed my four children on Saturday. [...]

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Mini Bookbinding Class (4/22)

2012.April.24

I wasn’t able to attend Eleri Hamilton’s mini bookbinding class but I did manage to take a few pictures. She crafted a cute little journal out of repurposed materials. Hopefully she’ll hold another class soon.

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SCRoW Report 2012-04-11

2012.April.13

Sorry I’ve been remiss in posting SCRoW reports recently, but here’s one for this week. A couple of young roboticists came in eager to work on something. Fortunately, Budi had a little robot kit which they assembled. Newcomer Sam showed us some surplus mechanics that he hopes to turn into a CNC mill and/or 3D [...]

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SCRoW Report 2012-03-21

2012.March.25

Lawrence and Danny put some Bus Pirate boards through their solder reflow oven. Newcomer Derek worked on duplicating Theo Jansen’s strandbeest leg mechanism. Some members of the Robo-Magellan team were getting their feet wet with the software and hardware for their project. Join us for SCRoW every Wednesday evening. Projects of all types are welcome.

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Robo-Magellan Project (SRS Robotics Competition Entry)

2012.March.21

Jigsaw is building a self-driving (RC) car to compete in Robothon, on June 2. Professor Sebastian Thrun will help us complete programming all the major systems of a robotic car over the course of seven weeks. Join our team or become a mentor. We are meeting at Jigsaw Renaissance (Thursday evening and also during SCRoW: [...]

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SCRoW Report 2012-03-14

2012.March.15

Newcomer Shubham has a background in machine learning and robot software. He needed some advice on the hardware side, so some of the SCRoW regulars helped him out. His enthusiasm was so contagious that he and Budi decided to start a project together: build a robot to compete in the Seattle Robotics Society Robo-Magellan contest. [...]

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