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With all of the use that my students and I have been getting out of our ShopBot Desktop, I’ve begun to notice that our spindle flats are really starting to get mangled by the combination of the “loose fit” of the Park Tool 20mm bicycle cone wrench that was supplied in the toolkit and by … Continue reading >>> Upgrading tools… I’ve noticed that a lot of hobbyists have been making really cool-looking finger jointed boxes with laser cutters and I decided that I just had to give it a try using my ShopBot Desktop CNC machine. I found several blog postings that discuss how to build these types of boxes and I found a few … Continue reading >>> Making boxes… Many times teachers try to take the summer off but it is good to have students come into your program and continue developing their skills throughout their vacation. All of us have students that enjoy using CNC equipment at school but unfortunately don’t have this technology at home that they can use. I like to … Continue reading >>> Students Keep Busy In Summer Months Hi, I’m Ed Birkey, a 23-year Technology Education teacher. For the past couple of years I’ve been working in the Fort Dodge (Iowa) Community School District. And now you’ll see me as a regular blog contributor here at 100kSchools.org. I’m looking forward to sharing my activities and even more, learning from other teachers about they’ve … Continue reading >>> Report from Teacher Ed Birkey on SkillsUSA Sometimes students will stay in my classroom after school to play chess. Our paper chess board was warped and didn’t lay very flat which was a problem…
I found an old piece of hardboard paneling in the back of my classroom that was about the right size and … Continue reading >>> A New Chessboard for the Classroom… The Problem: My kids like to hack electronics and it is sometimes difficult to find the perfect enclosure for a circuit. “O” was building a 3-zone LED lighting system for his mother’s sewing machine and he needed to make a special cover to hold his switches. He had already tried to make one in acrylic … Continue reading >>> A Switchplate for an LED Lighting System… School’s out but lots of things are going on with my students over the summer… One of the things we are working on with our ShopBot Desktop is fabricating about a dozen award plaques to give to exemplary delegates at Sewanhaka High School’s Model UN Conference next year. We wanted to decorate each plaque with … Continue reading >>> A Gavel for MUN (Model United Nations) Whew! The end of the school year is here and I’m really looking forward to spending time this summer working with my ShopBot Desktop. Most of the projects that my students and I have done this spring have been based on simple 2D profiles and I’m anxious to start carving more sophisticated geometries in different … Continue reading >>> Experiments in 2.5D/3D carving… I meet the nicest kids as a robotics coach. My robotics club was recently invited to attend a post-season tournament at the Dalton School in New York City and we wanted to do something special for our hosts; we had already met the students from Dalton Robotics twice this year and were very friendly because … Continue reading >>> FIRST Robotics Trophy… 
Life is hard when you are a 7th Grader who doesn’t have a present for Mother’s Day. However, have no fear…ShopBot to the rescue! The Set-up: A student at my school…let’s call him “D”…approached me at the end of the day and told me that he wanted to make something nice for his Mom for … Continue reading >>> Engraving Acrylic for Mother’s Day |
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