You may have seen Clayton Custer or Taylor Waddell roaming around the Makerspace in their signature black aprons. They’re both invaluable members of our staff, though they’ve been up to much more than just their …
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UW–MADISON LAUNCHES CAMPUS-WIDE EVENT CELEBRATING INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
UW–Madison Launches Campus-Wide Event Celebrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Mobile research, photography studio to study national parks
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Cheap, fast 3D printing is the goal of factory envisioned by Madison engineers
Originally Published by The Cap Times, written by Erik Lorenzsonn On the one hand, the two-year-old startup Zero Barrier Labs has a vision that’s pretty old-school: open up a factory in Madison specializing in metals manufacturing. Less …
UW-Madison students design new legs for disabled cat
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Engineers’ projects in focus as campus makerspace holds first “reverse career fair”
Engineering students at University of Wisconsin–Madison showed off a few projects to each other and to representatives of eight Wisconsin companies ranging from small and local to large and national. The projects included a prototype for a Mars rover and a phenomenally impractical watch based on obsolete technology.
Students use cool tools to solve local problems in summer Makerspace course
Walk by Union South and you might hear the faint buzz of power tools. It’s the hum of creativity in the UW Makerspace next door in Wendt Commons, where students design and build whatever they can imagine …
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ENGINEERING MAKERSPACE UNLEASHES LIMITLESS STUDENT CREATIVITY
Inventors and tinkerers, designers and builders, engineering students from across the UW-Madison campus: Rejoice and behold the splendor of the newly opened Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Laboratory, a makerspace where creativity knows no bounds.
The brand-new makerspace, located on the ground (2nd) floor of the Wendt building, is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff, as well as their collaborators from other parts of campus. The 12,000-square-foot space is a maker’s dream; it houses 3D printers, laser cutters, machine tools, virtual and augmented reality hardware, microscopes, soldering irons, bicycle tools and many more instruments and gadgets to assist engineering students in bringing their ideas to life.