Thank you to everyone who made it out to the first Build Madison. For those of you just learning about the competition, the idea of Build Madison is to motivate people to build something they’ve been thinking about, to sit…
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SkullSpace Winnipeg CupCake
SkullSpace sent over a cupcake to one of our members for the cupcake challenge. It broke all of the rules [sent late, no frosting or sugar toppings, <1000 miles, and was technically a muffin 🙂 ] but it was edible…
This Month in Projects
Yes, it’s been a while, hope you don’t feel terribly neglected at the lack of updates 🙁 Lots of cool things going on as always: A tesla coil in need of a few tweaks showed up and its spare transformer…
Renascence Manufacturing
Sector67 would like to thank and congratulate Renascence Manufacturing on a great article in the Wisconsin State Journal. Renascence Mfg has helped Sector67 move and set up our two CNC milling machines, lending decades of experience and great company in…
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Build Madison – February 5th 11am – February 6th 11:59am
The Event Calling all creative, talented and enthusiastic Madisonians! Come together to unleash and show off our community’s potential by cooperatively creating real products in less than 24 hours. Connect with people to make your idea a reality or utilize…
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NSCoder Night – Monday Jan 31
Sector67 is happy to host the first NSCoder Madison meeting on Monday, January 31st starting at 4:45pm. More information and a Google discussion group is available for those interested.
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Oregon Trail Startup Story
Great story about how Oregon Trail got started and the founders’ motivations turned into the greatest educational video game ever: http://www.citypages.com/2011-01-19/news/oregon-trail-how-three-minnesotans-forged-its-path/
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Board Game Night
Sector67 hosted our first board game night tonight: Despite competing with the playoff Packer game, several of us learned to play Go and are looking forward to the next opportunity to surrender to traditional games for a night of entertainment!
MadHackerHaus 1
Sector67 was happy to host the first MadHackerHaus, despite more than a few hiccups with the internet (we’re working on it. . .), attendance was in the mid 60’s with a lot of work being accomplished and more importantly a…
Week In Projects
This week in Sector67 brought us many interesting projects and most importantly our first aluminum casting! A Dr Seuss character was replicated in real life: A Porsche Carrera headlight was disassembled to determine repair possibilities: A bundled Xbox Kinect has…
CupCake Challenge Hackathon
The folks over at Hackerspaces.org posted an international hackerspace challenge – ship a cupcake as far as possible and score points by completing a variety of tasks. Sector67 accepted the challenge and used our newly created vacuum forming machine to…