February cruised on by with a number of cool happenings around Sector67! We now have a 10 seat computer lab set up to teach our first Solidworks course and an Arduino 102 DC Control class. Of course we’ve been repairing…
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End of February Update
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100 Hour Challenge Wrap-up
Thank you to all of the students who took us up on the offer of free workspace and tools for their 100 Hour Challenge entries. One of our members created a Brain Machine-like riot helmet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmD7lDXf68 Other students competing created:…
ReMade Documentary Crew – Electromagnate – Stops In
Sector67 was happy to host the folks from Electromagnate for a wonderful Saturday evening. They’re currently touring hacker/maker/etc-spaces nationwide to capture the idea of the Maker Movement and share it everywhere. Their story is especially interesting as the _entire_ project…
Build Madison Summary
Thank you to everyone who made it out to the first Build Madison. For those of you just learning about the competition, the idea of Build Madison is to motivate people to build something they’ve been thinking about, to sit…
Casting Update
There’s been a lot of interest in our aluminum casting efforts. We’ve stepped things up to our first lost foam casting exercise that ultimately resulted in failure with a lot of learning in the process: Using a foam blank machined…
SkullSpace Winnipeg CupCake
SkullSpace sent over a cupcake to one of our members for the cupcake challenge. It broke all of the rules [sent late, no frosting or sugar toppings, <1000 miles, and was technically a muffin 🙂 ] but it was edible…
Thank You Isthmus Engineering
Wanted to take the time to highlight a few projects made possible by scrap materials from Isthmus Engineering: Tesla coil receives a beautiful billet aluminum top that throws very nice arcs: Grinders get a great T-Slot extrusion adjustable mount: Part…
This Month in Projects
Yes, it’s been a while, hope you don’t feel terribly neglected at the lack of updates 🙁 Lots of cool things going on as always: A tesla coil in need of a few tweaks showed up and its spare transformer…
Renascence Manufacturing
Sector67 would like to thank and congratulate Renascence Manufacturing on a great article in the Wisconsin State Journal. Renascence Mfg has helped Sector67 move and set up our two CNC milling machines, lending decades of experience and great company in…
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Build Madison – February 5th 11am – February 6th 11:59am
The Event Calling all creative, talented and enthusiastic Madisonians! Come together to unleash and show off our community’s potential by cooperatively creating real products in less than 24 hours. Connect with people to make your idea a reality or utilize…
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NSCoder Night – Monday Jan 31
Sector67 is happy to host the first NSCoder Madison meeting on Monday, January 31st starting at 4:45pm. More information and a Google discussion group is available for those interested.
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