2012 Rosharon, TX Camp Shopbot

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Troy Carlson let us know that he had a shop with plenty of space, and pointed out that we hadn’t had a Camp in the Houston, TX area for quite awhile so we worked out a date and on Saturday the 13th we held our first Camp Shopbot in Rosharon, TX. Scraped …

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2012 Pacific Northwest Camp Shopbot

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David Chase and family hosted this Camp again in Vancouver, WA. And as usual we had a good turnout.

There was a pretty wide range of “Campers” this year as we had more people attending one for the first time than usual , combined with some people who have been “Botting” for …

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2012 Upper Midwest Camp Shopbot

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When our host for this Camp ,David McNutt, first suggested we hold a Camp at his new shop in Mercer, WI I told him that due to his ” remote” location I didn’t think we’d be able to get many people to travel there. In short I was very wrong as once …

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2012 Ann Arbor, MI Camp Shopbot

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At the first Detroit Maker Faire we ran into a group that was getting ready to set up a facility that would let people learn how to use a variety of machinery, and then use that same machinery to build their own projects. As they described it it would be like a …

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2012 Southern Maine Camp Shopbot

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After a break of a few years we went back up to Maine, at a new location- Sebago Signworks which is in Limington, ME. Our host, Devin Fahie has developed a successful business doing all types of signs, and vehicle wraps, and he added a Shopbot to expand his “in house” dimensional …

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2012 Tidewater, VA Camp Shopbot

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We kicked off the Fall “season” of Camps with our now annual visit to the shop of Angus Hines- http://angushines.com/

We had a large group including Nine staff members of Shopbot who drove up from Durham for this one! And the Campers themselves rolled in from Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, etc. …

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2012 Southern California Camp Shopbot

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Gabe and Mike Pari hosted our Socal Camp again, and it was a good one! A lot of new faces this year, and some very familiar ones as well.

We began the day by being SO absorbed in meeting one another ( and eating donuts) that we totally missed feeling a 4.+ …

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2012 Tulsa,OK Fab Lab Camp Shopbot

Here are some pictures from last weekend’s Fab Lab gathering in Tulsa, OK

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2012 Austin, Texas Camp Shopbot

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Wayne Locke has probably hosted more Shopbot Camps than anyone at this point, and they keep getting better over the years.

The 2012 edition was no exception and as previous versions it ran for two days.

Friday was a day where we all spent some time learning who was there, and what …

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2012 Florida Camp Shopbot

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Dave Rosenbleeth invited us back for the second Ft. Lauderdale area Florida Camp and this year was a two day event. Shopbot used it as a sort of “launching pad’ for a few new items, and we had a great turnout from a pretty wide geographic range ( including Brian Moran of …

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