By ShopBot, October 17th, 2019 Blog post written by Walter Dill
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First, a little backstory about Walter Dill and Monica Uhl, aka DillUhlsional: Soon after our relationship began 7 years ago, Monica realized that together we are DillUhlsional, which is appropriate since we have hugely grandiose plans! 5 years ago, with significant support and editing from Monica and a …
Continue reading >>> Truck Floor de Lis
By ShopBot, August 8th, 2019 Reported by Chris Burns
The National Association of Music Merchandisers holds two conferences every year. The Summer NAMM show in Nashville, TN is filled with people from all different areas of music including musicians, audio technology experts, and instrument makers, just to name a few. Some of the businesses exhibiting build hundreds of instruments every …
Continue reading >>> Making Music at the Summer NAMM Show in Nashville
By ShopBot, February 12th, 2019 Special Notice from ShopBot Technical Support (2019)
CAUTION – Before continuing with any of the recommended information below, the following maintenance information should be checked and double checked first, and our Technical Support team contacted before any adjustments are made to the gantry gussets or beam. The gantry is assembled in house using specialized …
Continue reading >>> Tuning Up the PRS Gantry
By ShopBot, September 4th, 2018 Make48 Film Crew at Work
As a product design student walking into an event where teams are tasked with designing a product, I didn’t quite know what to expect. Every day at school we brainstorm ideas, sketch them out, prototype them over and over, and then at the end of the project, market and …
Continue reading >>> 48 contestants. 48 hours. One winning idea.
By ShopBot, June 3rd, 2018 Interview from 2014 IWF in Atlanta, GA
ShopBot’s former operations manager, ‘head camp counselor,’ and the penultimate editor of American Woodworker, Randy Johnson, is out championing CNC to woodworkers across the country. As an enthusiast of traditional woodworking, Johnson caught the CNC bug and has become an inspiring proponent of digital fabrication, CNC, and …
Continue reading >>> Former ShopBot COO Takes CNC to the Woodworking World
By ShopBot, May 17th, 2018 Images from a recent webinar on flattening and carving a log slab.
ShopBot Tools is opening its highly-regarded webinar training to owners and operators of imported CNC routers. Whether you bought an imported tool on eBay, or purchased from a US importer of Chinese tools such as Laguna, ShopBot invites you to join us …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Offers Free Training for Imported CNC Routers
By ShopBot, April 10th, 2018 Ted Hall, ShopBot CEO, recently posted an article on small manufacturing on Medium. He explains why the new robotics is less about replacing people and more about making successful use of production robotics to enable small producers to be more realistically competitive:
Over the last several months, I have spoken to …
Continue reading >>> Robotics Week: The New, Small Manufacturing is About Production Robotics
By ShopBot, December 28th, 2017 Jad Jadeja and the students from the Innovative Airflow Technologies and Turbo Tigers teams.
Dripping Springs might not be the biggest city in Texas, but big things are happening at its only high school. As a school that is totally committed to providing students with challenging learning opportunities in science, technology, and math, the …
Continue reading >>> High School Students from Dripping Springs, TX Use ShopBot Tools to Rout the Competition
By ShopBot, December 14th, 2017 Make48 at the Kansas City Art Institute
The new TV show, Make48 is kind of a combination hybrid of Iron Chef and Shark Tank. You start off with an unveiled topic and some resources and then set the clock ticking. Twelve teams now have 48 hours to: come up with an idea that …
Continue reading >>> Make48 to Air Season Two this Spring!
By ShopBot, October 9th, 2017 Iceberg glass vase in progress – on pipe after being rolled onto textured plate.
In August 2017, Brian Gillespie and Tara Broyhill were artists in residence at the Pilchuck Glass School. During session 6, “Exploration”, they explored how generative design and digital fabrication can inform the form and texture of glass in new ways. It …
Continue reading >>> Handibot at the Pilchuck Glass School
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