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Quirky – Social Product Development
A friend sent over a link to Quirky, the idea is drawing up product concepts, voting them up high enough to get traction and ultimately taking products to market. If anything, it would be a great place to idea hunt…
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Arduino Class Pictures
Markus was kind enough to shoot some great photos at the last Arduino class: Have a look at the full set on Picasa.
This Week In Projects
Lots of projects happening this week: Spent some quality time debugging an OmniTurn CNC lathe keyboard for Renascence Manufacturing Corporation, turned out to be a blown fuse preventing the board from fully powering on, despite the deceptive LEDs still lighting…
Arduino Nights!
Tonight (12/1) and tomorrow (12/2) Sector67 will be hosting open Arduino nights, so bring in your stuck/unfinished/sick-of Arduino projects and get them finished off. We’ll be providing comfortable seating, workbenches, soldering irons, friendly faces and warmth (/no snow) – you…
Low Impact Small Housing
Interesting solution to urban living found on ChinaHush: The article outlines the high cost of living in Beijing coupled with the lack of housing available in the downtown – leading to unsatisfactory living at the edges of the mega-city that…
Salman Khan talks about Khan Academy
If you’ve never visited, now would be the time to stop over at Khan Academy and learn all the things you’ve never learned. The core concept is to provide education at your pace online for free. The video below discusses…
Sparkfun Free Day! – January 13th
Yes, you heard that correctly, Sparkfun will be giving away merchandise for free on January 13th, just before their servers implode, light on fire, and melt down like they did last year. You’ll want to head on over to their…
Cub Cadet Future Vision Competition
Cub Cadet (lawn mower manufacturer) is challenging anyone to envision the future of their products: More information and to enter click here.
Injection Molder in Action!
I returned from The Netherlands on Sunday to find Scott hard at work on his next generation injection molding machine. This version operates in the drill press to to give better control and consistency to the injection operation, and has…
ERLC -> Sector67 Visit
Sector67 was happy to have students from the Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community in Sellery Hall at UW Madison over for a visit to see what Sector67 was all about. Thanks for stopping out!
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Open Source Farm Blog / Wiki
Very cool open source farm, they detail equipment/resources/rough fabrication techniques that allow them to create a plasma cutting table, universal hydraulic power supply, skid-steer, etc CEB Construction Time from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo. Check out their wiki and consider contributing…