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The School Factory : Space Federation Video
James Carlson (Founder of The School Factory and Milwaukee’s Bucketworks) posted a great explanation of the Space Federation and what The School Factory is: I’m enjoying great food and talks in The Netherlands which is why we’re a little slow…
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Updates! – MSN Article, Arduinos in stock, Arduino class tonight
Couple of interesting things to report: MSN has a surprisingly well written and interesting summary of hackerspaces throughout the country. Our reseller order from Adafruit Industries has arrived, meaning that we have (and will continue to stock) Arduino Unos. In…
Week in Projects
This week in projects: Attempted to rescue a hard drive with a bad controller, received exact replacement controller from online seller and swapped EEPROM but no luck Repaired the knee lift on the newer Webb Champ milling machine, a few…
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Accessible Bicycle Finished @ S67
Over the last week we watched a tandem-recumbent bicycle take shape at Sector67. The project goal was to enable a Madison community member to ride a bicycle again after sustaining injuries in a bicycle accident years ago. The basic structure…
FIRST LEGO League
I had the privilege of judging FIRST LEGO league’s technical session for robot design and programming. For the second year in a row I was absolutely astounded at the technical competency of 5th-8th graders in programming, design, and development of…
Alumni Night :-)
Two UW alumni/Microsoft professional developers stopped by to finish preparing for their 2010 Microsoft Puzzle Challenge in Madison. In addition to putting the finishing touches on their code for tomorrow, they took some time to reach out to their inner…
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Pumpkin Carving and Costume Building
Between Styrofoam tombstones, an ultrabright rendition of the Iron Man arc reactor, and traditional pumpkin carving we had a lot of fun getting ready for Halloween: Of course a S67 pumpkin was carved: and we tried out the CNC mill…
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Projects Around the Space
Over the last week there have been a bunch of interesting projects floating through the space, a quick summary: Larry swapped his car strut in record time (for the 2nd time in under a year) Mike finished putting UV leds…
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CMKT4 Microphone Build Night
Circuit bending rock band CMKT4 stopped in to give a crash course in soldering piezo elements and creating vibration sensitive microphones: Seven people successfully created microphones and had a great time!
Field Trip to Isthmus Engineering Cooperative
We had the opportunity to take a quick tour of Isthmus Engineering, an engineering cooperative in Madison, WI. That’s right, engineering co-op like Willy’s St Co-op, with the majority of employees as owners and voting members in the business. They’ve…
Grand Opening Photos
Thank you to everyone who made it out for the grand opening, here are some pictures from the event: Andrew’s Pictures Terri’s Pictures
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