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The Garage Physics lab in B613 Sterling Hall is a makerspace for student-driven interdisciplinary innovation. Garage offers all UW-Madison undergraduates and graduate students an unstructured safe environment to explore technologies such as 3d-printers and electronic devices and to develop creative ideas through project-oriented just-in-time learning. Want to make something or make something happen? You have come to the right place. The Garage Physics lab in B613 Sterling Hall is a makerspace for student-driven interdisciplinary innovation. Garage offers UW-Madison students an unstructured safe environment to explore technologies and to develop creative ideas through project-oriented just-in-time learning. Want to make something or make something happen? You have come to the right place.
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To navigate this site, note that at the top of any page there are hotlinks to nodes in the page tree that you have visited. You can always click on "FrontPage" to return to this page. A link to this WIKI may be found on Garage Physics splash page http://garage.physics.wisc.edu. To learn how to use a wiki, see the help pages and note that Google is your friend.

To learn how to join and use the Garage, see [[About Garage Physics]]. For further information or questions about access to the Garage or accessibility, please contact Professor [[Duncan Carlsmith]], duncan@hep.wisc.edu , or Instructional Lab Manager [[Brett Unks]], unks@wisc.edu .
For further information or questions about access to the Garage or accessibility, please contact Professor [[Duncan Carlsmith]], duncan@hep.wisc.edu , or Instructional Lab Manager [[Brett Unks]], unks@wisc.edu .
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Garage Physics

The Garage Physics lab in B613 Sterling Hall is a makerspace for student-driven interdisciplinary innovation. Garage offers UW-Madison students an unstructured safe environment to explore technologies and to develop creative ideas through project-oriented just-in-time learning. Want to make something or make something happen? You have come to the right place.

Garage Physics is described in the UW-Madison communications story http://news.wisc.edu/24040, the WKOW news story http://www.wkow.com/story/30139090/2015/09/29/students-create-inventions-of-the-future-in-uw-madison-garage , and the Badger Herald story https://badgerherald.com/news/2015/10/13/tinker-away-garage-physics-helps-realize-student-inventions/. Also in the news, receipt reduction: http://news.wisc.edu/24056?utm_source=iUW&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=iUW2015-10-01 and https://badgerherald.com/news/2015/10/02/university-dining-halls-go-paperless/.

Attention entrepreneurial students

Garage Physics and Venturewell (formerly National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Association, NCIIA) offer a program of support for UW-Madison entrepreneurial teams to conduct R&D in Garage Physics leading to participation in local and national business plan competitions including the Venturewell programs. See http://venturewell.org/. Contact Prof. Duncan Carlsmith (Duncan@hep.wisc.edu) for more information. Apply at the following link: https://www.physics.wisc.edu//GaragePhysicsVenturewellSupportApplication .

Contents

For further information or questions about access to the Garage or accessibility, please contact Professor Duncan Carlsmith, duncan@hep.wisc.edu , or Instructional Lab Manager Brett Unks, unks@wisc.edu .

  • About Garage Physics - General information for students about joining and working in Garage Physics

  • Safety - Important safety information

  • Office Hours - Need a hand? Looking for a meeting to get involved?

  • Projects - What are you working on? Look here for on-going and suggested projects.

  • Equipment - What do we have? What would you like?

  • Classes - Learn something. Teach something!

  • Software - Collaboration, design tools, and more

  • Makerspace links - Makerspace and innovation center links

  • Entrepreneurship clinic - Entrepreneurship inspiration, education, and local and national resources

  • Sustainability - WI Make Sustain resources and sustainability related suggested projects

  • MadisonTech - Madison community tech group links

  • Campus connections - UW connections

  • Conferences - Outreach, conferences and other news

  • Research funding - Resources for undergraduate and graduate research, internships, and careers

  • Publish - Opportunities to publish and present your findings

  • Awards - Garage students in the news

  • Readings - Quiet time inspiration

  • History - B613 Sterling History

Disclaimer

Links and information on this website are for education purposes and do not constitute an endorsement of any product, company, or cause.

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