By ShopBot, March 9th, 2016
For the 3rd year in a row, the School of Theatre’s Technical Production department at FSU in Tallahassee hosted a Camp ShopBot. Their building is located off campus in a converted middle school, which also houses the Art department and Interior Design department’s Digital Fabrication studio. Thea Eck, from ShopBot, spent a day visiting …
Continue reading >>> 3rd Annual Northern Florida Camp ShopBot 2016
By Jeanne Taylor, October 28th, 2015
What happens when the NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) has their annual conference? Inspired conversation.
Sallye Coyle, Educational Outreach Coordinator for ShopBot Tools, and I held a round table at the NACCE event. Attendees learned about the 100kGarages online network for bringing makers, designers, and fabbers together. …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot participates in conference on Cultivating an Entrepreneural Culture
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
By ShopBot, July 29th, 2015
July 22-25 – Las Vegas, NV – It’s that time of year where woodworkers from across the globe gather in Las Vegas to grow as a community, learn, and exchange ideas within the backdrop of the AWFS Fair.
Every year at the AWFS Fair, ShopBot has a chance to showcase …
Continue reading >>> AWFS 2015 in Review
By Jeanne Taylor, July 7th, 2015 On the afternoon of Friday, June 26th, around 70 visitors in town for the Furniture Society 2015 Symposium journeyed over to the ShopBot Tools “World Headquarters.” Along with a scrumptious barbecue dinner, ShopBot staff organized multiple demo stations to highlight features of our growing variety of tools –from the Handibot Smart Power Tool to …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Hosts Furniture Society for an Afternoon of Demos & Festivities
By ShopBot, July 6th, 2015
The weather was hot, and the buzzing of insects was matched by the whirring of machines at this year’s National Maker Faire in DC. Inventors, tinkerers, and innovators from across the nation came to showcase their wares and share their knowledge. ShopBot brought two Handibots and set them to work. While one churned out …
Continue reading >>> Shopbot at the National Maker Faire!
By ShopBot, June 15th, 2015
June 6, 2015 – Windermere, Florida, just outside of Orlando, was host to the 2015 Ed Camp Magic with nearby Disney World as the backdrop for the weekend’s events held at Windermere Preparatory School.
One of ShopBot’s core focus areas remains in the realm of education, and we were happy to sponsor such a …
Continue reading >>> Ed Camp Magic & ShopBot in Florida
By Jeanne Taylor, May 27th, 2015
The 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire was extended to a 3-day event this year, May 15-17. With over 130,000 visitors, the Bay Area event is the largest of its kind. ShopBot’s 40’ circular tent was chock-full of CNC tools continuously cutting, carving, and sculpting, making everything from flat-pack stools to picture frames to …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot’s CNC Village Came to Life at Bay Area Maker Faire
By Jeanne Taylor, August 23rd, 2014
The 2014 International Woodworking Faire took over two of the buildings at the Georgia World Congress Center August 20-23rd. Building B, where our booth was located, pulsed with activity. “There was definitely more traffic than in the past few years and we’re seeing more cabinetmakers looking to automate their businesses,” Ryan Patterson said.
Cutting …
Continue reading >>> International Woodworking Faire was huge!
By Sallye Coyle, July 31st, 2014 Paris’s first Maker Faire took place in late June at the Centquatre Center.
ShopBot had a presence there, thanks to Sallye from ShopBot putting a Handibot in a suitcase and flying it over for the event and leFabShop from San Malo bringing their Desktop. LeFabShop has a variety of digital fab tools and classes …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fab at the Maker Faire, Paris
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