Sector67’s business incubator is home to some interesting startups here in Madison. The business incubator is located in the back of Sector67 and provides a shared office environment that gives the business an opportunity to work with other startups and…
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Blog Archives
Monthly Meeting – July 2012
For the July meeting 38 people stopped in to listen and share ideas and projects. This month’s presenters included: Mike discussed ARM based motor controllers Joe demonstrated his Hydrophobic Teflon experiment Issac and Micah gave a summary of the PPPRS…
MakerBot stopped in for a visit
MakerBot stopped by Sector67 to demonstrate their MakeBot Replicators. MakerBot has recently blogged about Sector67 so its only proper to repay the favor. The Replicators and a bunch of cool things you can make with them Davy created a mini…
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Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
This past Sunday (June 24th) the Wisconsin State Journal business section covered the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp where Sector67 founder and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Alumni, Chris Meyer attended and was a luncheon speaker. The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is an opportunity for UW-Madison…
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Power Racing Series at Kansas City Winners!
Congrats to everyone who participated in making Sector67’s Fauxrrari this years winning car in the Power Racing Series at Kansas City. The team survived the heat and the various obstacles that come when children’s toys are used in ways they were not…
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Portable Chicken Coop
One of the latest projects at Sector67 reaches out to the community helping out F.H. King students is using a BLINK art grant to create a portable chicken coop. The project was brought here on bicycle and worked on outside…
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Power Racing Series
The Power Racing Series is where engineering meets childhood dreams meets fun. Every year people from all over the country gather at Maker Faires in Kansas City, Detroit and Chicago to race these souped up childhood toys in front of a cheering…
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Mail Art Guild of the Madison Area Meetings
Sector67 is happy to host the Mail Art Guild of the Madison Area (MAGMA67!) with monthly meetings at Sector67. MAGMA is way to make and share art and support the postal service at the same time. For more information on…
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Art and the Arduino
It is a strange sight, like a snapshot of an Olympic swimming competition taken from below. Five swimmers, frozen in position, pulse with life. A light from each swimmer’s heart beats and illuminates the swimmer briefly. As the heart’s light…
September in Updates
Many at the monthly meeting, Larry is giving a brief talk about his automated chicken coop door (now of Hackaday fame): Madison’s Steam Century used Sector67 to create the murder mystery props for Geek.Kon: Sometimes Makerbot repair requires two hands…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Chicken Coop, Giant Two Story Bus, MakerBot, Nightvision, PPE, Prusa, RepRap, Solar Cooker, Steam Punk, Ultrasonic Soldering
Progress on the Power Wheels Project
*PRESS BLACKOUT LIFTED* As you may or may not know, S67 is currently building an amped up Power Wheels to compete with other like-minded maker spaces across the country. We are aiming to race in both Kansas City and Detroit,…
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