By Jeanne Taylor, August 18th, 2017
Fab13, the 13th International Fab Lab Meeting, was hosted in Santiago, Chile from July 31 to August 6, 2017. This year’s “Fabricating Society” theme was in action throughout the event. There were six strategic categories: city, housing, innovation and entrepreneurship, environment and energy, education, and decentralization–and each had clearly defined projects.
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Continue reading >>> Collaborations and Workshops, Bringing Fab Labs Together in Santiago, Chile
By ShopBot, August 4th, 2017 One of the many campsite areas from the 2017 National Scout Jamboree
The 2017 National Scout Jamboree at the Bechtel Summit Reserve in West Virginia was a huge event for makers and an opportunity for 40,000 scouts and scouters to learn how much fun a Makerspace can be. The National Jamboree set up a …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Joins the 2017 National Scout Jamboree’s Makerspace
By Sallye Coyle, August 3rd, 2017 Slide together steps prototyped and produced during July’s Digital Fab for Educators.
Traveling to Durham, NC from Baltimore, MD with his wife and elderly dog gave one of the July 2017 Digital Fabrication for Educators Workshop attendees, Frank, an idea of what to create during the workshop at ShopBot. The old girl (canine) …
Continue reading >>> Prototyping and Production Across Platforms: Laser and CNC at Digital Fabrication for Educators, July 2017
By Sallye Coyle, July 6th, 2017 Whether it takes place at ShopBot, or on site, a 2 – 3 Day Professional Development workshop gives teachers a chance to hone their skills with digital fabrication machines. Educators starting at all levels, from newby to someone with a year or more experience running their ShopBot CNC router, end up with new techniques …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication for Educators: Your Place or Ours
By Devin Wilson, July 2nd, 2017 Our ShopBot CNC has proved to be more than just an educational tool. Once they learned about the capabilities of the tool, students got excited about making something special for those they care about. In the 6 months since we received our Desktop MAX, students have made a multitude of signs for various people and …
Continue reading >>> More than a tool!
By Sallye Coyle, June 16th, 2017
Alberta shows off the sign she made on a ShopBot.
May and early June was the time to visit a number of digital fabrication labs in middle schools, high schools, and community colleges around the US. Some labs are fine tuning their plans after being in existence for a year or more, while some are just starting their journey.
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Continue reading >>> (Re)Visiting Digital Fabrication Labs in Middle and Upper Schools
By Sallye Coyle, June 13th, 2017 Four Saxes: An original drawing (right) scanned and re-conceived with 3 different digital fabrication tools: Engraved in wood (ShopBot CNC router), 3D printed with ABS plastic (Ultimaker 3D printer), and laser cut out of thin acrylic (Epilog laser).
Early in May, I visited Polk County, Florida as a part of a TIES team. Polk …
Continue reading >>> The Embracing of Digital Fabrication Technology in Polk County, Florida
By Jeanne Taylor, April 17th, 2017 The tastiness of making mistakes.
In the 52 years that the New York State Technology and Engineering Educators Association (NYSTEEA) has been meeting, there have been a lot of changes in the design software and equipment available to teachers and students. Schools have been adding digital fabrication equipment, including CNC, into …
Continue reading >>> NYSTEEA and Chocolate Mold-Making for STEAM
By Tim Babiasz, April 3rd, 2017
From March 13-15, 2017, ShopBot Tools attended the 2017 USFLN Symposium at Lewis and Clark Community College’s St. Louis Confluence Fab Lab in Edwardsville, IL. This year’s theme, “Stairway to Making”, featured a number of workshops and sessions highlighting the various steps that Fab Labs and Makerspaces can take to start, grow, and succeed in bringing digital fabrication …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication Education at USFLN in Edwardsville, IL
By Devin Wilson, March 27th, 2017 We made a jig to CNC the tops and sides of our CO2 cars.
Hello, my name is Devin Wilson and I am excited to be a part of the ShopBot world! I am a first year Carpentry and Technology teacher at Rosman High/Middle School in Rosman, NC. There have been some ups and downs, but …
Continue reading >>> Our History, Our Future
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