Larry Walker will be leading a LiveCode Summer Camp at Sector67 next week. What is LiveCode? * a drag & Drop GUI-builerd tool, great for prototyping or for deployed applications * a super-simple English-like programming language * the shortest learning…
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3D Printing Camp
3D Printing Camp Wisconsin 2012 will take place Saturday, July 21 from 8am to 9pm at Sector67. 3D Printing Camp Wisconsin is a participant-driven event focused on 3D printing technology. The event is not only for those who own 3D…
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Sector67 Competition Winners
In 2010 Sector67 got 2nd place and $7000 in the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition and now its members and those it sponsors are now winning at all different business competitions. In the Global Stewards Sustainability Prize Pure Water…
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Get to know your Sector67 business incubator members
Sector67’s business incubator is home to some interesting startups here in Madison. The business incubator is located in the back of Sector67 and provides a shared office environment that gives the business an opportunity to work with other startups and…
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Monthly Meeting – July 2012
For the July meeting 38 people stopped in to listen and share ideas and projects. This month’s presenters included: Mike discussed ARM based motor controllers Joe demonstrated his Hydrophobic Teflon experiment Issac and Micah gave a summary of the PPPRS…
MakerBot stopped in for a visit
MakerBot stopped by Sector67 to demonstrate their MakeBot Replicators. MakerBot has recently blogged about Sector67 so its only proper to repay the favor. The Replicators and a bunch of cool things you can make with them Davy created a mini…
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Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
This past Sunday (June 24th) the Wisconsin State Journal business section covered the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp where Sector67 founder and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Alumni, Chris Meyer attended and was a luncheon speaker. The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is an opportunity for UW-Madison…
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Power Racing Series at Kansas City Winners!
Congrats to everyone who participated in making Sector67’s Fauxrrari this years winning car in the Power Racing Series at Kansas City. The team survived the heat and the various obstacles that come when children’s toys are used in ways they were not…
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Makership Submissions Update!
There were many great ideas submitted by area youth for the Makership summer scholarship. Ideas ranged over a broad spectrum from household appliances to robotics. Many applicants were interested in building some sort of robot with a variety of…
Portable Chicken Coop
One of the latest projects at Sector67 reaches out to the community helping out F.H. King students is using a BLINK art grant to create a portable chicken coop. The project was brought here on bicycle and worked on outside…
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Power Racing Series
The Power Racing Series is where engineering meets childhood dreams meets fun. Every year people from all over the country gather at Maker Faires in Kansas City, Detroit and Chicago to race these souped up childhood toys in front of a cheering…
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Monthly Meeting – June 2012
There was a strong turn out for June’s monthly meeting with 42 people in attendance. The evening started out with demonstration of the transit of Venus (as covered by Hackaday). If you’re clever enough you don’t need to fork out a lot…