Inspiration Growing up every year my family had a tradition of gingerbread house making. We always tried to out-do the previous year’s effort. This year my family decided we would try to achieve my lifelong dream of making the Notre…
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November Meeting Highlights
About 50 members of the community attended our November meeting – what a great turnout! As usual, the room was filled with a mix of familiar faces and new friends! Recognition from Madison Science Museum Terry Sivesind, one of the founders of the…
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Build Madison Returns to Sector67 – November 21-22
Build Madison is back! The 24-hour community “create-a-thon” returns to Sector67 on November 21 at 11am. Project presentations begin at 11am on Sunday, November 22. We’re excited to announce the 6th annual Build Madison event coordinated by Capital Entrepreneurs and hosted…
Huge Thanks, Tormach!
Tormach, located in Waunakee, Wisconsin is a leader in the PCNC (Personal CNC) industry. Their high quality products are a maker’s dream. Many at Sector67 are already familiar with Tormach and thankful for their generous donations of tools and equipment over the…
Posted in Thank You!, Uncategorized Tagged with: CNC, Madison hacker space, maker, PCNC, PCNC 1100, Sector67, Tormach
Maker Faire Milwaukee – September 26-27th
Maker Faire Milwaukee is coming up quick – the event is part of the Wisconsin State Fair, Saturday September 26th (9-6PM) and Sunday September 27th (10-5PM). The best part about MF Milwaukee? It’s free to attend! We’ll again be hosting…
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Fractal Camp
Fractal is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) enrichment program that uses Participant-led, Inquiry-based Learning techniques for school-aged participants (6-13). Through fun, creative and engaging workshops, Fractal builds self-esteem, teamwork, knowledge base, and confidence in participants’ for their…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: 3D printing, Drawdio, Education, Learning, Madison Fractal, Minecraft, Scratch, Sector67
April Monthly Meeting
The monthly meeting was held April 7th 2015 1. Xavier and Robert presented an update on their virtual board game. The demonstration included a game of Tic-Tac-Toe and Table Hockey 2. Shira presented silicone molds she made for the…
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Wall-E Silicone Molds
Jeff Whitehouse is a project person. His current project is building what will end up being a full sized, fully autonomous or remote controlled Wall-E. When faced with the next logical question “WTF” he responds “I build things. It’s my…
Posted in Projects, Uncategorized Tagged with: Make your own, Polyurethane, Sector67, silicone mold, stinger router, Wall-E
Meet Shira, and her MOARbots
Shira is focused on three large themes presently: robotics, re-thinking traditional education, and a project to create a graphic novel in a 2D style but using 3D CGI techniques. “For the first one, I’ve created MOARbots. For the second…
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Thank You Tekton
In the last year Tekton went on a mission to talk to and visit with several makerspaces. After all these conversations something became clear : They like makers. They like the inner drive inside every maker to continually design,…
Made by Maggie Modena
Designer, Maggie Modena attended both the UW Madison for Textile and Apparel design and New York City’s FIT for Accessory Design. Since Graduating she has gone on to design handbags for brands such as Nicole Miller, Lucky Brand, Jessica Simpson…
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