The March meeting held on 03/07/2017 was another interesting affair held at Sector67. Presenters and attendants alike seemed to enjoy it. As I took pictures, I noticed that they all were picturesque. Each image I captured singed a memory in…
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THE FIRST SHOW AND TELL OF 2017…..
The Sector67 membership enjoyed the first monthly meeting of 2017 with some of their fellow craftsmen/women presenting current projects, completed ideas, and tidbits about upcoming events and gadjets. John showed us his subchaser model, Bob gave us an informative presentation…
Posted in Businesses at Sector67, Meetings Tagged with: Adrian, Alt Brew, CHIP, hands on, Hardware, John, lasers, Monthly Meeting, Raspberry Pi, roses, Scott, Subchaser
March Monthly Meeting
Listen to the Sound of Science Liam kicked off the presentations with his Arduino audio synthesizer project. In essence, Liam used an Arduino Uno running many clock dividers to emulate tones. He programmed the Arduino to accept MIDI serial commands so it’s effectively operating…
February Monthly Meeting
If you missed the live Twitter feed of the meeting this month, here’s the long version of the meeting notes. Thanks to all who came out in the snowy weather to see what our community of creators have been up…
January Monthly Meeting
Finally, Winter in Wisconsin! The snow and 28-degree weather didn’t keep inquiring minds from attending this month’s meeting. January topics ranged from robot controllers to laser cut pinecones to tire pressure monitor hacks to building your own CNC router. More info…
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…
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March monthly meeting
The Sector67 monthly meeting was held March 3rd 2015. 1.Mike presented a vacuum table insert for the CNC Router This allows flimsy or lighter weight pieces of material to be secured with out the use of clamps which…
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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
Revisiting April’s Monthly Meeting
The Sector67 April monthly meeting was on Tuesday, April 2nd. 1. Chris demonstrated how to expand and shrink a peep using a vacuum. You can find a video of the same process in action here. 2. Jay talked…
June’s Monthly Meeting
The Sector67 monthly meeting was on Tuesday, June 4th. 1. Tom, a professor at MATC, brought with him a drone built by he and his students in a collaborative effort. The hardware and software of the drone is…
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…
Monthly Meeting – June 2012
There was a strong turn out for June’s monthly meeting with 42 people in attendance. The evening started out with demonstration of the transit of Venus (as covered by Hackaday). If you’re clever enough you don’t need to fork out a lot…