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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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SCoW Report 2012-01-11

2012.January.12

Can you believe it? Ned brought in not one, but two more oscilloscopes! I think we should diversify into some other types of scopes, such as micro-, kaleido-, or colono-. Lawrence and Danny continued their effort to transform a toaster oven into a soldering oven. Meanwhile, in the classroom: an actual class(!) Well, really just [...]

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SCoW/Dorkbot 2012-01-04

2012.January.5

JR has been the site of Dorkbot meetings for many moons now, but last night was the first Dorkbot in the new space. Aside from a few technical difficulties with the projector, everything went well. We might need some more folding chairs, though; the unofficial head count was 38 (neck and neck with the Pony Party!). There [...]

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Maker at Work: Robin

2011.December.22

Just before we moved to the new space, I found Robin working on a little project involving appliqué. I found the process to be quite interesting, so I took some photos. She had made some owl-themed PJ pants and wanted to put some owls onto a top to match. She cut out some owls and [...]

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SCoW Report 2011-12-21

2011.December.21

An action-packed SCoW tonight. Newcomer Andy dropped in. He’s an Android developer and he was looking for a non-coding activity. Fortunately, Neil brought a bunch of boards and parts for solder practice, so Andy got to do some soldering. Neil and Danny inspected his work and pronounced it good. Danny also had an LED cycling [...]

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SCoW Report: 2011-12-14

2011.December.16

First SCoW in the new space. We had a visitor—John Arclight from 23b Shop near LA. Stickers and stories were exchanged. Besides that, there wasn’t much to report. With the dust still settling from the move, not much soldering or coding got done, although Lawrence did find the USB interrupt he was looking for, so [...]

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Nixie Tube Clock

2011.December.11

Just another Tuesday evening at Jigsaw Renaissance. Neil showed off his nixie tube clock. Earlier today I had built another Amazon crate rack, this one with wheels. I put it in the “loud room” to try to help deal with the clutter.

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SCoW Report 2011-11-30

2011.December.6

Sorry for the late report. It had been too long since I’d seen Isa, but there he was, working on his JigTwitch. Danny had a little “steampunk” circuit board. Ned and Nancy did a little exploratory surgery on the pipette machine. It turned out to contain all sorts of goodies, such as servo motors and [...]

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