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Congratulations Innovation Days 2013 Participants
Congratulations to the participants of the 2013 UW College of Engineering’s Innovation Days. This year we were proud to assist five out of fifteen teams: Cedric with the American Press, an automatic French press-style coffee maker. Michael with the Lecture…
February MadisonSOUP
We had great attendance at the February MadisonSOUP: With two great projects pitching for almost $400 towards their cause: Kristin of Art in All the Wrong Places Joe for Madison Sweet Potato Project And great food as always: Ultimately Joe…
Pour Yer Heart Out – Iron Pour 2013
We had a great time this year working with Alisa Toninato of FeLion Studios and are happy to share some great videos and pictures from this year’s pour! Eric Allin stopped by with his camera and spent the day shooting some…
Community Iron Pour – February 9th
FeLion Studios and Sector67 are proud to announce our 2nd annual community iron pour, taking place on February 9th at Sector67. Please stop out anytime until the 9th to purchase your very own iron molds and have poured as part of…
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin Releases City Open Data Set at Sector67
Mayor Soglin stopped in at Sector67 to publicize the availability of City of Madison datastreams including crime, bus, fire hydrant, assessor, etc information; all available here on https://data.cityofmadison.com/. Best of all, it was very well attended: Some fun coverage of…
Cooking “With Science” Day
Several people have been interested in cooking “with science” for quite awhile, so a day was finally decided and materials were purchased to make it happen. One of our members owns the “Modernist Cuisine” cookbook, which provides an amazingly detailed…
3rd Balloon Launch a Success
Sector67 launched its 3rd high altitude balloon this past weekend with great success. Lots of information over at Apollo67 and for here a beautiful picture:
Posted in Field Trip, Hardware, News, Projects Tagged with: Beautiful Pictures, High Altitude Balloon, Tracking Works!
Warming Up the Laser Engraver
We’re still learning about our laser cutter (which inevitably draws a crowd): and testing a variety of materials including engraving Jade: Granite: and an awesome guitar pick made from a soft stone: We need to up the vertical resolution and…
Welding Pictures
One of the Power Racing Series vehicles broken an “axle” the other day (giant sized bolt). While they were repairing the axle, Alex shot a couple of pictures from a modern phone camera, these have gotten amazingly good at taking…
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Madison SOUP – December 9th 6-8PM – Get Tickets Today!
Sector67 will again be hosting MadisonSOUP this cold, dark, December! We hope to have a full house so please join us for some great food and Madison area project proposals. SOUP can’t happen without your support, so please register today.…
Posted in News, Projects Tagged with: Great Food, International SOUP Network, Madison SOUP, Mmmmm warm soup
Laser Engraving a Laptop
Not as scary as it sounds, we started off with a test on a dead laptop panel: Which yielded beautiful results on the first try. Next up was preparing the artwork (in this case XKCD.com comics) and test engraving a…