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Congratulations Innovation Days 2013 Participants

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Waterppk

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 … Continue reading →

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Pour Yer Heart Out – Iron Pour 2013

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Waterppk

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 … Continue reading →

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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin Releases City Open Data Set at Sector67

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Waterppk

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 … Continue reading →

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3rd Balloon Launch a Success

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Waterppk

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:

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Madison SOUP – December 9th 6-8PM – Get Tickets Today!

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Waterppk

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. … Continue reading →

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ZAP Car is Finally Road Legal

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Waterppk

If you made it by the last meeting, you heard the saga of Eric’s ZAP Xebra impossible titling process.  The long story short, the vehicle was purchased years ago by another party, and was never titled.  This resulted in Eric holding … Continue reading →

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Sector67 Hits “Freakfest”

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Waterppk

Jesse wanted to stand out at this year’s “Freakfest” with something better than his handmade Predator costume of past years, so work commenced 2 days before the event with pink foam flying everywhere. And a mini chestburster alien was first … Continue reading →

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Maker Faire New York

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Waterppk

We were delighted for the opportunity to attend Maker Faire New York this year courtesy of the Power Racing Series.  We had a great time! Sparkfun’s Juan Pena took a great picture of the Sector67 group:

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Bicycle Stolen 7/17/2012

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Waterppk

We had a bicycle stolen from the front of our building and vehicles gone through at 12:55AM Tuesday morning by a drunk guy.  If you recognize this person please let us know.  Note to the person, please get closer to … Continue reading →

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Makership Submissions Update!

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Rachel Pontow

  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 … Continue reading →

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