By Michael Berliner, March 23rd, 2015 Janet Lawson, Dan Swearingen and Ian Swearingen
Autistry Studios in San Rafael, California, is a unique non-profit organization that helps teens and adults with Autism, Asperger’s, and other learning differences become successfully independent by building on each student’s interests and talents and creating a supportive community. Autistry’s founders, Janet Lawson and Daniel Swearingen, are …
Continue reading >>> Autistry Studios helps teens with autism and other learning differences
By Michael Berliner, March 10th, 2015
Oliver and Sam Moore of the Moore Brothers Company have a passion for everything outdoors. Oliver (who earned his BA in Physics from Williams College) and Sam, who earned his degree in engineering from the University of Vermont, love the water (and the slopes), and have a background building high-end racing boats.
Before starting …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot’s 5-Axis is key to Moore Brothers’ outdoor gear start-up
By Michael Berliner, March 1st, 2015 CIOMIT owner and instructor Dan Parker
Daniel “Dr. Dan” Parker is a master craftsman with 42 years experience in the musical instrument repair trade. His clients include top professional musicians from around the world, and eight years ago he founded and continues to run CIOMIT, the Colorado Institute of Musical Instrument Technology. It’s …
Continue reading >>> Facet Mutes puts ShopBot 5-Axis to work making fine wood mutes
By Michael Berliner, February 24th, 2015 Sarah Evans and Laura Shoemaker are the owners of ten-year old Appalachian Signs in Boone, North Carolina. Appalachian State University is where they’d both earned undergraduate degrees in 2000 — Sarah in music and business, Laura with a fine arts degree in sculpture. They loved the area and wanted to find a way to start …
Continue reading >>> Appalachian Signs’ 3D Artistry is Enhanced with ShopBot
By Michael Berliner, January 29th, 2015 Patron using the ShopBot Desktop at Pikes Peak Library Maker Space
I caught up recently with the staff at Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) in Colorado to learn more about their 21st century Maker spaces. PPLD’s Travis Duncan said, “We want to be on the forefront of continuing to make public libraries useful …
Continue reading >>> Pikes Peak Library features a ShopBot in its Maker space.
By Michael Berliner, December 8th, 2014
A Case Study: Ryan Patterson’s MyHue.
The potential for individuals to create, design and manufacture products themselves continues to be realized every day all around the country. With the affordability of robust digital fabrication tools such as the ShopBot Desktop, running a micro-factory out of handy space is not a dream, but reality. We …
Continue reading >>> How to start up a micro-factory in your garage.
By Michael Berliner, December 7th, 2014 Teacher Mike Annetts
For almost 20 years Mike Annetts has been an Industrial Arts teacher in Manitoba, Canada, for students from grade 7 through 12, and he has been running a ShopBot tool in his classroom for over a decade. When we reached out to him to see if he’d like to talk about …
Continue reading >>> Mike Annetts’ students learn STEM subjects and gain confidence by making with a ShopBot.
By Michael Berliner, November 24th, 2014 That’s Ben Harris on the right, grabbing a selfie with Bill Nye “The Science Guy” at the first ever White House Maker Faire, Spring 2014
Bennett Harris (who goes by Ben) is probably best described as a Renaissance man of education. He tinkers, he designs, he builds, he teaches, he’s a tireless evangelist for …
Continue reading >>> Bennett Harris is “Reinventing Science” to inspire kids.
By Michael Berliner, November 12th, 2014 Designer/Manufacturer Sidney Molepo
Film actresses Jessica Chastain (“The Help,” “Zero Dark Thirty”), Cody Horn (“Magic Mike”), and internationally renowned singer Celine Dion have something in common: their love of Sidney Molepo’s unique shoes and fashion accessories.
Mr. Molepo, who was educated as an architect and furniture designer, in recent years has turned his …
Continue reading >>> Celebs like Jessica Chastain love wearing Sidney Molepo sandals. Sidney Molepo loves his ShopBot.
By Michael Berliner, October 19th, 2014 Gustavo Bonet, architect and designer. He helped out at the ShopBot booth at this year’s Maker Faire NYC
Gustavo Bonet is a traditionally trained architect who started making furniture in Florida before moving to NYC to get his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. Gustavo says, “During my time at Columbia, I developed …
Continue reading >>> Meet Gustavo Bonet. To the NYC design world, he’s becoming known as “the Fixer.”
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