Bruce signed up a few months ago with the grand intentions of building his own futon from some plans in an old woodworking magazine – his rationale was that futons are built like crap and he could do it better…
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Fixing a Greenhouse and Learning How to Use a CNC Router
Guest post from Mattias about a recent project: Sometimes, things break. As my grandparents recently discovered, injection molded nylon has a special affinity for this behavior after many years of use. The “T” shape at the top of the part…
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WiscoWood and its first Kickstarter Campaign
Over a year in the making with a lot of blood, sweat, and laughs with my Sector67 peers and this is what you get: WiscoWood Minimalist Cycling Wallets We can’t even begin to thank the list of people at…
Posted in Businesses at Sector67, Laser Cutter, Projects, Thank You! Tagged with: Bicycles, CNC, laser, recycle, Upcycle, Wood
5th Annual Build Madison This Weekend!
The community “create-a-thon” returns to Sector67 on November 8-9. We’re excited to announce the 5th annual Build Madison event coordinated by Capital Entrepreneurs and hosted at Sector67. Build Madison is a 24 hour hackathon that gives you the opportunity to set aside…
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Madison SOUP This Sunday!
Madison SOUP is coming up this Sunday – this event is an opportunity to support projects that will benefit the Madison community. Sign up and stop in at 4PM to enjoy soup, salad, and bread as well as your vote…
Sector67 at the Wisconsin Science Festival
We had a lot of fun over the last 3 days at the Wisconsin Science Festival talking with kids from across the state (and from adjacent states!) about science and technology through a variety of projects that our members have…
Go Visit Lang Family House of Terror – Last MadisonSOUP Winner!
We’re excited to see how the Lang Family was able to use $488 they earned from the last MadisonSOUP for their 6th annual House of Terror coming up at the end of the month: If you’re interested in supporting more local projects, please…
Learn How To Fix Your Bicycle – Class Series
Sector67 member Matt Poster is offering an awesome set of upcoming classes so you can learn how to service every aspect of your bicycle, from basic maintenance to truing a rim and everything in between. Classes start this week Tuesday…
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Sector67’s NSA Away Project
A team of Sector67 members (Bob, Chris, Kate, Liam, Nate, Peter and Scott) recently passed a milestone in submitting their NSA Away project to the semifinals of The Hackaday Prize, which offers a chance to win $200,000 (all proceeds donated…
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A Gift for Steve – Wisconsin Trivet
In case you haven’t heard, Steve Case is in town (Former CEO of AOL though more recently a startup evangelist and adviser to the president) and we were tasked with making him a parting gift to thank him for his…
Posted in Hardware, Projects Tagged with: American Skillet Company, Fancy Cutting Board, FeLion Studios, TooMuchWork, Wisconsin Trivet
Milwaukee Maker Faire This Weekend – 27-28th
From the website: *** Maker Faire is a fun, family-friendly show-and-tell festival celebrating innovation, invention and creativity. Maker Faire Milwaukee will feature makers showing off technology, art and craft making, electronics, pyrotechnics, engineering, gardening, and other projects created by the makers…
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Better Late Than Never – Celebrating Vera Court’s Arcade Console Repurpose!
This never quite made the blog, and has been languishing in the bottom of my e-mail inbox (among a few hundred other e-mails to get to! – sorry). Sector67 partnered with our near north neighbor Vera Court Neighborhood Center to…