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Think about the tools that you use to make things in your daily life: a toaster, a hammer, a knife. Now place these tools on an imaginary graph where one axis describes the ease of use of the tool and the other describes its capability. I find that most tools in my life that … Continue reading >>> Desktop MAX Project: A Tiny Table for a Tiny House Cutting a Nerdy Derby Flat Track Design Decisions: The Nerdy Derby Flat Track project was created with three criteria: It had to be shape-compatible with the original Nerdy Derby track, so that the same cars would fit on each track All the parts had to be cut-able with a Handibot, so no part could … Continue reading >>> The Nerdy Derby Flat Track 
I’m always on the lookout for resources for small shops doing digital fabrication – resources that will help these shops operate profitably by improving communications with customers and improving collaborations with partners working on the same project. For small shops doing CNC, 3d-printing, laser cutting, and applying other digital fab technologies, I think of … Continue reading >>> A New Design Resource for ShopBotters Doing Collaborative Work: Fusion 360 Whether you’re a production manufacturer using CNC machines, a cabinet shop cutting panels with a table saw, or a garage hobbyist working on weekends, even the most efficient cutting tools and powerful design sofware don’t let us utilize every square inch of every sheet of material we cut. This often makes us feel wasteful … Continue reading >>> Distributed manufacturing as waste management?
How does this season inspire your creativity? We invite you to “CNC it” and share it in our 2nd Annual Seasonal Decor Challenge! Whatever holiday you may celebrate, share your CNC project with ShopBotters and Handibotters everywhere by helping us decorate our tree at ShopBot World Headquarters in Durham, NC. Continue reading >>> 2nd Annual Seasonal Décor Challenge
What an incredible time to be a fabricator! We have digital tools with incredible accuracy and precision and can make just about anything we can imagine. In reality though, we rarely need that much precision… we’re not making artificial heart valves! But if we had a need to fabricate something with ultra precision … Continue reading >>> My love/hate relationship with plywood
Max Lobovsky, the founder of Formlabs and creator of the Form 1 3d printer, summed up the future of digital fabrication pretty well for me… “People don’t need the technology, they need the parts.” We all know that digital tools—CNC machines, 3d printers, laser cutters, etc.—are amazing machines. We need to remember though … Continue reading >>> We don’t all need to BE fabbers, but we all NEED fabbers! Design file used to recreate the design used on an antique wooden textile printing block.
Theatrical costume designer Katie Keener is a graduate student in technical theatre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the theatre in residence is Playmakers Repertory Company. As part of her studies, Katie recently developed … Continue reading >>> Costume designer creates textile print block with ShopBot Opendesk marketplace side-by-side with the 100kGarages fabrication facility outfitted with a ShopBot Desktop MAX. During the last weekend in Sept, 2015, 100kGarages and Opendesk collaborated on MakeLocal, a demonstration of local manufacturing at the World Maker Faire in New York. It evolved from a conversation at the Bay Area Maker Faire with Josh Worley … Continue reading >>> MakeLocal… distributed local manufacturing at the NY Maker Faire 
Ted Hall (ShopBot CEO) had a chance to continue his art project that combines CNC carving with an interest in images of shoreline and sky as seen from from the water. It’s been several years since Ted’s last foray into painted carvings of seascapes and time was short, but an opportunity to spend 2 weeks … Continue reading >>> Another Try at Digital Fab Art |
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