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Week in Updates

Couple of meetings and progress for the Great Global Hackerspace Competition: We now have a couple prototypes working and are progressing towards ultra low-tech measurement techniques Sector67 hosted a FIRST Lego League competition course open to anyone, increasing exposure in

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Week(s) in Updates:

Yes, we’ve again lost a week towards the end of the month, this seems to happen every month but no worries – just makes for a longer post: Lots going on this week, we finally got a machine mounted near

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Google Places Marketing Campaign

Following hot on the heels of a mystery box from Redbull, was a mystery box from Google: Somebody at Google has awoken to Apple’s packaging (not so environmentally friendly btw): After getting through the box in a box in a

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The School Factory Reignition

Sector67 joined Pumping Station: One and Jigsaw Renaissance (among others) in Milwaukee, WI for a School Factory reignition meeting to plot a course for The Space Federation. It was great to get an opportunity to meet up with the founders

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Trip to EIGERlab

This week also saw a trip down to EIGERlab in Rockford, IL. EIGERlab was created 7 years ago with a think-tank vision packed with federal funding bite – leading to today being well equipped with SLA, SLS, FDM, and Poly

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Trip to Tormach

We took a trip up to Tormach, a Waunakee company whose mission is to provide “geeks with tools” including CNC mills, lathes, 3D scanners, (and it looks like coming soon injection molding) etc – http://www.tormach.com/ They have a great training

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Week in Updates

Joe was featured on Thingiverse for a revision of a popular printed gear heart: A epoxy coated beaded spool table was sanded down to get a nice rounded off edge: Work began on the electrical solution to a bicycle blender

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Week in Updates March

Yet another week has flown by: Joe’s taken the time to document a few of the prints from Thingiverse. And the MakerBot is now rocking some lights and a teflon coated nozzle so we can see what’s going on: And

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UW Students – Take Note!

Important upcoming deadlines! If anyone needs any help with their entries for these competitions please stop in, we have multi-year winners on hand to lend help and suggestions: Governor’s Business Plan Competition Deadline – Executive Summaries Due Mar. 14 The

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High Speed Camera

One of the members owns a Casio EX-F1 that can shoot 600 and 1200 FPS video so of course we were hunting up things to shoot in slow motion: One of the most interesting was watching the Makerbot jump all

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Week in Updates – March

This week we saw a lot going on at Sector67: Monthly meeting welcomed a professional locksmith to talk about locksmithing: Which inevitably turned into: “locks huh, interesting thought . . .” I wonder if I can get into this door.

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3D Printing at the Discovery Center

I had the opportunity to head over to the Discovery Center this week to check out their 3D printing facilities. They have a SLA, FDM and are looking into an SLS machine. In the lobby of the new building are

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