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...
View ArticleOctober in Updates
Things are moving towards a new keycard access system. While there are a number of open source systems out there, they all seem to rely on custom made boards and complex firmware. We’re looking to...
View ArticleMusic 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...
View ArticleArt 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...
View ArticleLaser 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....
View ArticleExperience 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...
View ArticleLED 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...
View ArticleArduino 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...
View ArticleBuild 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...
View ArticleSector67 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...
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