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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
February cruised on by with a number of cool happenings around Sector67! We now have a 10 seat computer lab set up to teach our first Solidworks course and an Arduino 102 DC Control class. Of course we’ve been repairing…
Thank you to all of the students who took us up on the offer of free workspace and tools for their 100 Hour Challenge entries. One of our members created a Brain Machine-like riot helmet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmD7lDXf68 Other students competing created:…
Sector67 was happy to host the folks from Electromagnate for a wonderful Saturday evening. They’re currently touring hacker/maker/etc-spaces nationwide to capture the idea of the Maker Movement and share it everywhere. Their story is especially interesting as the _entire_ project…