Showcase 2014 Poster
7 Mar 2014 Five Garage Physics projects will present at the 2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium Thursday 10 April 2014, http://www.learning.wisc.edu/ugsymposium/
5 Mar 2014 Garage Physics featured in magazine Wisconsin Engineer http://wisconsinengineer.com/magazine/816/832/
1 Mar 2014 WARF Ambassador & Graduate Student, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison uses Garage 3d-printer in Hackathon.
"We thought an interesting idea would be to set up a network/marketplace of 3d printers in town and see if we could make a system were individuals who wanted to get relatively large orders of 3d printed parts could upload that order and get a quote for it, the order having been parsed out to numerous 3d printers in town.
We made this system to solve the problem of a friend who owns a small business centered around a 3d printer: how do you fulfill a large order (100's-1000's) that is either relatively too small for the expense of injection molding or cannot be made by conventional manufacturing techniques because of the materials geometry. We decided that leveraging the latent capacity of unused 3d printers in the area might be a way. We did a test run of the system by activating several printers on our 'network' to print out a large order of custom bracelets ("UW Hackathon!" on each), this included the one in the physics garage."
Tyler Graf presents poster at UW Madison Sustainability Forum 2014 http://sustainability.wisc.edu/sustainability-forum-2014-overview/
Garage participates in 2014 Madison Startup Fair. Students presented a poster at this event designed as an opportunity to mingle with local startup companies and campus entrepreneurs.
Garage participates in 2013 Energy Hub Conference http://www.uwehub.org/
ECE379 Living Pantry and Grey Water projects presented their prototypes and posters at the 6 Dec 2013 Energy Hub conference.
Garage participates in the Wisconsin Science Festival Oct 2013
Announcement: The project Sustainability supports ECE 379 – WI Make Sustainability, a pilot interdisciplinary makerspace centered class on sustainability using Garage Physics (Fall 2013) by Prof. Duncan Carlsmith (duncan@hep.wisc.edu), Prof. Erica Halverson ( erhalverson@education.wisc.edu), Prof. Giri Ventkataramanan, giri@engr.wisc.edu) Contact Prof. Giri Ventkataramanan to enroll.
Teaching and Learning Symposium 2013, Anna Christenson presenting
Check out the Undergraduate Research Symposium http://www.learning.wisc.edu/ugsymposium/prepare.html
New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors
A Garage Physics poster will be presented at the 2013 Teaching & Learning Symposium (http://www.learning.wisc.edu/tlsymposium). The formal poster session will take place Thursday, May 23rd from 8:30-9:30 in Varsity Hall at Union South. The poster session will continue, informally, during breaks until the symposium adjourns at 12:30 pm.
Congratulations to Anna for being awarded a 2013 Wisconsin Space Grant connected to the Troy project. -duncan
Thanks to Anna and Bai for preparation of the Showcase poster and to all who staffed the poster. -duncan
Garage Physics poster at UW's innovation Showcase 2013, 20 March, Memorial Union - http://quality.wisc.edu/showcase.htm
A7 Garage Physics: A Space for the Hands-On Physicist Department of Physics A safe environment for undergraduates to experiment, explore, and create; aimed at the curious, entrepreneur, scientific mind. https:// www.physics.wisc.edu/garage/FrontPage, garagephysics@wisc.edu Duncan Carlsmith, duncan@hep.wisc.edu Anna Christenson, agchristenso@wisc.edu Bai Wang, bwang87@wisc.edu Brett Unks, unks@wisc.edu
Program Showcase2013.pdf
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