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…
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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…
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…
Invention to Venture: Madison 2010
Sector67 is proud to see and support events like Invention to Venture in Madison, this is a great opportunity to meet and greet with successful entrepreneurs in Madison and pitch your idea to an inviting audience. Hope to see you…
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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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