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…
Posted in Hardware, News Tagged with: 3D printing, ants, bicycle blender, dream bikes, FLIR camera, MakerBot, pizza, SMSMyBus, Week in updates
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…
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…
Posted in Field Trip, News Tagged with: bucketworks, jigsaw renaissance, Milwaukee, pumping station one, reignition, The School Factory, WI
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…
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…
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…
Posted in News
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…
Posted in News
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…
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.…
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…