Madison, WI ::: Center for Prototyping, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing

General Meetings - Always First Tuesday 7pm Monthly

Events: 2100 Winnebago St, Madison

Next Meeting May 1, 2012 - 7PM - Open to Anyone

Meetings are a great time to visit the space, feel free to stop out even if you've never been by previously

Meeting at: 2100 Winnebago St, Madison

Calendar

Archives - [Deprecated, see blog]

February 5-6, 2011 - Build Madison

50+ in attendance
Blog updates from the event
Tons of programmers and a handful of hardware hackers converged on Sector67 for a 24 build marathon to create and pitch products. Prizes and sponsorship from PerBlue, Google, Murfie, Sony, Ring & Klingelhoets, Supranet, and Sector67 resulted in over 9 teams cranking out some amazing software.

January 31, 2011 - NSCoder Night

9 in attendance
An NSCoder group was started in Madison and will be meeting at Sector67 weekly. A great time to stop out and work on Cocoa and Objective-C.

January 22, 2011 - MadHackerHaus

60+ in attendance
More Information
MadHackerHaus 1 was hosted at Sector67, giving anyone in the community an opportunity to come out and code for 8 hours. The event was a great time for all with a lot of interaction

January 5, 2011

46 in attendance
Meeting Photos
Matt showed off his speaker infused backpacks
Chris demonstrated the soda machine
Scott demonstrated the vacuum table, doing vacuum forming and an attempt at milling
Lots of discussion and hacking following the meeting!

December 7, 2010

30 in attendance
Larry presented his Arduino powered automatic chicken coop door with LiveCode interface
Aric talked about his Makerbot + MK5 extruder
Scott demonstrated the plastic injection molder and 120V PID temperature controller creating some cool gears
Mike showed his work reverse engineering off the shelf RGB LEDs and demonstrated the results!

November 2, 2010

28 in attendance
Arthur demonstrated his fully working miniature 4 stroke engine
Larry showed his brake/turn/hazard lights for his electric bicycle
Quick CNC demo

Halloween Pumpkin Carving and Costume Building - October 26/28 starting 5pm (show up anytime)
All Ages - (parental involvement required)
We'll use some power tools to make removing the seeds/guts effortless without destroying the pumpkin, you bring the pumpkin/knife and some creativity. Feel free to bring your kids, we have lots of workbench/floor space and we don't mind pumpkin goo.

Build your own Joule Thief! - October 27 6pm-8pm
All Ages - (parental involvement required)
What:Bring in a "dead" AA or AAA battery, we'll give you the parts and help you build a "Joule Thief". It's a simple circuit that will pull every last joule of energy out of your dead battery and light up an LED. Cost per kit is $3 (our cost is your cost)

Find out what makes your XX work - October 29 starting 5pm (show up anytime)
All Ages - (parental involvement required)
Bring in a consumer device (working or not) to take apart and we'll talk about what makes it work. Bonus points if you can put it back together and make it work again(or make it work taken apart). We'll be showing you how to look up the parts on the circuit boards and what different sections of the electronics do.

CMKT4 Microphone Building Night - October 20, 2010

8 in attendance
7 microphones created and a short concert while the plastidip dried

Grand Opening Party - October 15, 2010

hundreds in attendance
7.5 gallons of Spotted Cow and 3 gallons of rootbeer disappeared. . .

October 5, 2010

23 in attendance
Scott demonstrated and discussed his injection molding machine

Hackers Movie Night - October 2, 2010

9 in attendance
Watched Hackers movie on the 15th anniversary - HACK THE PLANET!

September 7, 2010

38 in attendance
Sneak peak at the space night with fresh grilled burgers

Mitch Altman Soldering Night! - August 29, 2010

37 in attendance
Nine (9!) TV-B-Gones successfully created, much to the chagrin of sports bars Madison-wide.

BarCamp Madison - August 28, 2010

150 registered, ~110 attended

August 3, 2010

14 in attendance

July 14, 2010 - Social Meeting

11 in attendance

Catch us a the Memorial Union Terrace and enjoy a few beverages, more information here.

July 6, 2010

28 in attendance

June 1, 2010

15 in attendance

May 4, 2010

24 in attendance