Great story about how Oregon Trail got started and the founders’ motivations turned into the greatest educational video game ever: http://www.citypages.com/2011-01-19/news/oregon-trail-how-three-minnesotans-forged-its-path/
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Board Game Night
Sector67 hosted our first board game night tonight: Despite competing with the playoff Packer game, several of us learned to play Go and are looking forward to the next opportunity to surrender to traditional games for a night of entertainment!
MadHackerHaus 1
Sector67 was happy to host the first MadHackerHaus, despite more than a few hiccups with the internet (we’re working on it. . .), attendance was in the mid 60’s with a lot of work being accomplished and more importantly a…
Week In Projects
This week in Sector67 brought us many interesting projects and most importantly our first aluminum casting! A Dr Seuss character was replicated in real life: A Porsche Carrera headlight was disassembled to determine repair possibilities: A bundled Xbox Kinect has…
CupCake Challenge Hackathon
The folks over at Hackerspaces.org posted an international hackerspace challenge – ship a cupcake as far as possible and score points by completing a variety of tasks. Sector67 accepted the challenge and used our newly created vacuum forming machine to…
Week in Projects
Andrew took some great pictures at the meeting! Makerbot platform received a much needed upgrade of countersunk screws (yes seriously, they designed it with giant allen caps sticking up, I know, us too. . .) Isthmus Engineering sent us another…
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Week in Projects
Despite the holidays there were a number of projects started this week: Dave convinced Apple that his Hive and Seek word search game was suitable for market and is now available on the app store: Justin stopped in to create…
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2010 UW Photos of the Year – Sector67 Featured
Sector67 was founded by a $7,000 prize awarded through the Burrill Business Plan Competition at the University of Wisconsin. This image was captured by the UW photographer at the competition freezing in time the judges’ reactions to the concept of…
Thank You MAKE Magazine!
The holidays came a little early at Sector67 courtesy of MAKE Magazine! Following a tweet by MAKE magazine suggesting great gift giving guide for the hackerspace in your life we asked if they had anything they could send out to…
Week in Projects
Final table assembly: Prototype parts: Co-working station – stop by during the day for maximum mobile enjoyment: Web camera! Check out the about page for an image: Laptop Repair: Drill press return spring rework: and some work to set up…
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Pottery Wheel
Sector67 picked up a pottery wheel from Freecycle a few months back, it was basically a heavy table in someones garage for a number of years and in pretty rough condition. After some more wire brushing and investing in a…
LEGO Robotics Competition
Sector67 is excited to host the Madison Area LEGO Robotics Competition on April 9th, 5-8pm. We’ll be reusing FIRST robotics courses for a little regional competition of our own. Rules are: Using all of the Body Forward Course Rules Only…