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Painted Wall with Chroma Green Paint for Our Green Screen Productions

2011.December.19

Roy Hardman painted the green wall with two coats of paint.  Michael Park was there to take a picture and hear endless stories.   Thanks, Michael There is still perhaps 1/4 or more of the gallon left. Next we need a desk or two that can be placed in front of the screen so we [...]

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Dorkbot Seattle 0×45 – now at Inscape

2011.May.29

Jigsaw has moved to Inscape and we are moving with them! dorkbot is taking the show to a new venue at Inscape (815 Airport Way S., Seattle WA 98134) For our first meeting in the new space we will have presentations on Kinect hacking for public displays by Allan Bathurst and Sam Yi, and maker [...]

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What Would JR Do (WWJRD)

2011.April.23

What would JR do (WWJRD) when we’re in desperate need of few things to continue building our projects? We learn to make it, right? Here’s for example: When building the Multi Touch Surface Interface (which is basically a giant iPad in the form of a table), we needed few things in order to complete it, [...]

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Many Hands Make Light(-emitting diodes) Work

2011.April.14

At last night’s SCoW, Alan W, Rehana, Danny, and Budi worked together to solder  many many IR LEDs for the multitouch table. Meanwhile Wim worked on the multitouch software. There was a little hiccup at the start because some of the LED holders had the wrong number of holes, but they got it straightened out. [...]

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Dorkbot Invasion!

2011.April.6

Tonight, Jigsaw was overrun by soldering iron-wielding crazies from Dorkbot! It was their annual Kit Night; men, women, children, and at least one dog were hunched over circuit boards, soldering like mad. (OK, the dog was just resting, possibly high on solder fumes.) It was a pretty amazing and inspiring sight, all those soldering irons [...]

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Tasty, Tasty Science

2011.January.27

At the most recent SCoW (Sewing and Crafting on Wednesday), Erin and Robin followed the hankering for some chocolate cake. As it turns out, Instructables has a very good tutorial on making single servings of chocolate cake… in a mug… in the microwave. And we just happened to have all of the ingredients on hand [...]

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Confessions of a Hackerspace Virgin

2010.November.29

This was recently posted to Robert Boerner’s blog, http://robert-boerner.blogspot.com/. Bob is one of our newest members, having recently moved to Seattle from Alaska. As I nervously trekked up Madison Street last Saturday morning enveloped in the brisk fall air, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Well, that’s not entirely true…I did know I was going [...]

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Help Us Build a Kitchen!

2010.April.20

We have a Kickstarter account! Our first project is to build a kitchen. We have lots of awesome rewards lined up, so please give it a look.

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