For the 2nd year in a row, Sector67 has supported budding makers from across the US by lending equipment for use at a week long, all ages summer camp in Three Rivers, Michigan. Every August since 1981, the Latvian Center…
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2018 – Latvian Summer Camp 3×3
Posted in Classes, Projects, Thank You! Tagged with: 3D printing, Education, FUN, laser, Learning, Vinyl
Caught a Minute of Jim’s Time…..
I sat down with Jim to complete an old interview that Margie, a past Sector67 social media intern, had started but didn’t quite finish. I found out Jim is a member of Sector67 since 2011 and has invented multiple products…
Posted in Businesses at Sector67, Laser Cutter, News Tagged with: 3D printing, design, Inventor, Jim Rasmussen, laser cutting, Lulzbot, patent, Sector67, Sector67 Business, TabSynth
Sector67 October Monthly Meeting Recap
Perfect weather and interesting presentations made the October meeting a great success! You Built a What?! The evening kicked off with an introduction to “Joliet” (Jim’s Overbuilt LED Interactive Entertainment Table). The table’s primary function is as a digitally enhanced…
Posted in Meetings Tagged with: 3D printing, Amazon Dash, Arduino, CNC, Madison Science Museum, Monthly Meeting, Sector67, Tormach
Fractal Camp
Fractal is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) enrichment program that uses Participant-led, Inquiry-based Learning techniques for school-aged participants (6-13). Through fun, creative and engaging workshops, Fractal builds self-esteem, teamwork, knowledge base, and confidence in participants’ for their…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: 3D printing, Drawdio, Education, Learning, Madison Fractal, Minecraft, Scratch, Sector67
Build Madison 2013
Sector67 hosted the 4th annual Build Madison on November 23-24th, 2013. This event is an excuse to spend 24 hours straight working on a project of any type, and we saw a ton of interesting ideas this year. Things kick…
Posted in Hardware, Software Tagged with: 3D printing, alien versus predator, Arduino, buildathon, BuildMadison, createathon, hackathon, knitting, Penny-Farthing, RaspberryPi, RepRap, Rocketry, scary bicycle, sew-able circuits
July Monthly Meeting
The July monthly meeting was on Tuesday, July 2nd. Liam compiled and demonstrated an educational math software/hardware program on Raspberry Pi called Sage (it wasn’t originally built for the hardfp ARM architecture). Jacob demoed an Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset for…
Posted in Projects, Uncategorized Tagged with: 3D printing, Monthly Meeting, Oculus Rift, PPPRS, Raspberry Pi
Week(s) in Updates:
Yes, we’ve again lost a week towards the end of the month, this seems to happen every month but no worries – just makes for a longer post: Lots going on this week, we finally got a machine mounted near…
Posted in Hardware, News Tagged with: 3D printing, ants, bicycle blender, dream bikes, FLIR camera, MakerBot, pizza, SMSMyBus, Week in updates
Trip to EIGERlab
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…
3D Printing at the Discovery Center
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…