Sector67 returned victorious from the Detroit Maker Faire following a strong performance at the Kansas City Maker Faire in the Pow Pow Power Racing Series. We’d like to thank our sponsors for providing us with the tools, equipment, and cash…
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June Updates
Lots going on through June! Trying to figure out what we should do with an empty power wheels jeep body. . . A short time later things were getting closer: Of course part of ordering the universe requires some disorder,…
Train Detecting Automatic Window Closer
A Sector67 member has the fortune to live in a really cheap apartment – only after the lease was a long signed and summer set in did it finally dawn on him why rent was cheap – those parallel steel…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware Tagged with: 3D printed, Arduino, hard drive failure, image processing, image recognition, Train Detection
Kansas City Maker Faire
Sector67 had a road trip down to Kansas City June 25th-26th to catch the mini Maker Faire and race our PPPRS vehicle. We also stayed at <a href=”http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/”>Hammerspace</a> and toured <a href=”http://blog.cowtowncomputercongress.org/”>CCCKC</a> (the infamous hackerspace in a cave). Iron Man…
Posted in Field Trip, News Tagged with: CCCKC, CNC, Hammerspace, Kansas City, Kansas City Maker Faire, Maker Faire, Mini Maker Faire, PPPRS
Sector67 Sweeps First Day of PPPRS
We arrived safely in Kansas City at about 5:30am at Hammerspace, slept for a few minutes/hours, and then headed to Union Station downtown to unpack and get the car set up. Teams were amazing, there was about 13 cars running…
Power Wheels Running
The car was built in 2 days, but tweaking took a few weeks. . . We’ve got 2.5 HP worth of propulsion and a Lithium Ion battery to boot! Everything seems to be working, it’ll soon be sitting comfortable in…
June Meeting in Pictures
If you’re wondering what a meeting looks like, Dan took some awesome pictures at the June meeting: James demonstrated his directional speaker: Dave demonstrated his 3D printed door catch Mark covered the finer points of Nokia batteries for the GGHC:…
2011 Burrill Business Plan Competition
We were honored to have a judging seat for the Online Communities and Social Networks track in the 2011 Burrill Business Plan Competition. There was a record number of entrants to this year’s competition, as a 4 year competitor I…
Posted in Field Trip, News
May in Updates. . .
Well, I sat down to dig through the camera for blog pictures and found that I had 213 pictures to choose from since the last update . . . might be time to ‘hire’ a journalism intern for the summer!…
2011 UW Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards
It’s nice to see Chancellor Biddy Martin at UW-Madison honoring some exceptional entrepreneurs in the Madison community: Last night at the WI Institutes for Discovery a number of people were honored for their contributions to the community (and world at…