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Category Archives: Projects
Summer 2013 Makerships
Sector67 is happy to offer 2013 summer makerships to area youth (available to anyone 18 or younger)! A makership is a 3 month opportunity to use Sector67 with a free membership and $100 for project materials as well as a … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 Innovation Days, College of Engineering, Invention, UW
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LED Holiday Wreath Build
I was looking for a fun and simple project to learn about the new laser cutter at Sector 67, so I decided to use it to cut some acrylic to hold some RGB-addressable LEDs in the shape of a holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, Hardware, Laser Cutter, Projects
Tagged Arduino, Blinky Light, Cheerlights, LED, Sketchup
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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 Beautiful Pictures, High Altitude Balloon, Tracking Works!
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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 … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Food, International SOUP Network, Madison SOUP, Mmmmm warm soup
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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 … Continue reading
Pi Bottle Opener
Not likely to be carried to a party, but may live comfortably as a paper weight when not is use: This Pi bottle opener was machined by Leon out of solid chunk of aluminum: The leading corner has been cut … Continue reading
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Sector67 Presents: The Fauxrarri 2012 PPPRS Championship car build
For the last year, when people from the street stop by Sector67 and ask what a hackerspace is, my first stop has been the PPPRS car that sits prominently on our shop floor. It shows off so many capabilities of … Continue reading
MakerBot / Arduino music project
I recently completed a project that I’ve been working on at Sector 67 for a few months: an algorithmic audio composition, a MakerBot-printed 3D “score” of the composition, and an Arduino-powered device that coordinates the audio playback of the composition … Continue reading