Congratulations to the participants of the 2013 UW College of Engineering’s Innovation Days. This year we were proud to assist five out of fifteen teams: Cedric with the American Press, an automatic French press-style coffee maker. Michael with the Lecture…
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Pour Yer Heart Out – Iron Pour 2013
We had a great time this year working with Alisa Toninato of FeLion Studios and are happy to share some great videos and pictures from this year’s pour! Eric Allin stopped by with his camera and spent the day shooting some…
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin Releases City Open Data Set at Sector67
Mayor Soglin stopped in at Sector67 to publicize the availability of City of Madison datastreams including crime, bus, fire hydrant, assessor, etc information; all available here on https://data.cityofmadison.com/. Best of all, it was very well attended: Some fun coverage of…
3rd Balloon Launch a Success
Sector67 launched its 3rd high altitude balloon this past weekend with great success. Lots of information over at Apollo67 and for here a beautiful picture:
Posted in Field Trip, Hardware, News, Projects Tagged with: Beautiful Pictures, High Altitude Balloon, Tracking Works!
Madison SOUP – December 9th 6-8PM – Get Tickets Today!
Sector67 will again be hosting MadisonSOUP this cold, dark, December! We hope to have a full house so please join us for some great food and Madison area project proposals. SOUP can’t happen without your support, so please register today.…
Posted in News, Projects Tagged with: Great Food, International SOUP Network, Madison SOUP, Mmmmm warm soup
ZAP Car is Finally Road Legal
If you made it by the last meeting, you heard the saga of Eric’s ZAP Xebra impossible titling process. The long story short, the vehicle was purchased years ago by another party, and was never titled. This resulted in Eric holding…
Sector67 Hits “Freakfest”
Jesse wanted to stand out at this year’s “Freakfest” with something better than his handmade Predator costume of past years, so work commenced 2 days before the event with pink foam flying everywhere. And a mini chestburster alien was first…
Maker Faire New York
We were delighted for the opportunity to attend Maker Faire New York this year courtesy of the Power Racing Series. We had a great time! Sparkfun’s Juan Pena took a great picture of the Sector67 group:
Posted in Field Trip, News
Bicycle Stolen 7/17/2012
We had a bicycle stolen from the front of our building and vehicles gone through at 12:55AM Tuesday morning by a drunk guy. If you recognize this person please let us know. Note to the person, please get closer to…
Makership Submissions Update!
There were many great ideas submitted by area youth for the Makership summer scholarship. Ideas ranged over a broad spectrum from household appliances to robotics. Many applicants were interested in building some sort of robot with a variety of…
City Camp Madison this Weekend!
Madison CityCamp, on Saturday, June 16th, will bring together local government officials, municipal employees, programmers, designers, citizens, and journalists to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live. CityCamp recognizes that local governments and community organizations have…
Posted in News
Monthly Meeting – June 2012
There was a strong turn out for June’s monthly meeting with 42 people in attendance. The evening started out with demonstration of the transit of Venus (as covered by Hackaday). If you’re clever enough you don’t need to fork out a lot…