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…
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Sector67 October Monthly Meeting Recap
Posted in Meetings Tagged with: 3D printing, Amazon Dash, Arduino, CNC, Madison Science Museum, Monthly Meeting, Sector67, Tormach
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
Arduino 101
Chris gave an Arduino programming lesson on Thursday, June 20th. According to its website, “Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive…
LED Holiday Wreath Build
I was looking for a fun and simple project to learn about the new laser cutter at Sector 67, so I decided to use it to cut some acrylic to hold some RGB-addressable LEDs in the shape of a holiday…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware, Laser Cutter, Projects Tagged with: Arduino, Blinky Light, Cheerlights, LED, Sketchup
Experience Making PCBs from Fritzing
With some help from Chris and Sector67, I’ve been able to work out a process for getting to a custom-fabricated printed-circuit board (PCB) that’s amazingly simple and straight-forward, even for people who aren’t “hardware guys”. This article gives an over-view…
Laser Display
For the past few weeks I’ve been working in spare time on a project that I originally did in high school. I wanted to resurrect it so that I could possibly take it to schools and give demonstrations. However, another opportunity has…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware Tagged with: Arduino, Audio Visualization, Laser Picture, LAZZZZORSSS, mirrors, motors, speaker
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…
Music in Space
She climbs into the fuselage and takes her seat in front of the brightly lit control panel. A tune starts to play as she slides the first lever into position. She presses a button and a rhythm glides in behind…
Member Projects – Chicken Coop Door and Bicycle Generator
Chicken Coop Automatic Door: Rather than paying several hundred dollars for an automatic door system, Larry and Carol created a smart door by using junk around Sector67. The final product is composed of an expensive looking Swiss DC motor, some…
Posted in Hardware Tagged with: 4th of July, Arduino, Bike Generator, Chicken Coop Door, Member Projects
Train Detecting Automatic Window Closer
A Sector67 member has the fortune to live in a really cheap apartment – only after the lease was a long signed and summer set in did it finally dawn on him why rent was cheap – those parallel steel…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware Tagged with: 3D printed, Arduino, hard drive failure, image processing, image recognition, Train Detection