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Special Notice from ShopBot Technical Support (2019) CAUTION – Before continuing with any of the recommended information below, the following maintenance information should be checked and double checked first, and our Technical Support team contacted before any adjustments are made to the gantry gussets or beam. The gantry is assembled in house using specialized … Continue reading >>> Tuning Up the PRS Gantry Jad Jadeja and the students from the Innovative Airflow Technologies and Turbo Tigers teams. Dripping Springs might not be the biggest city in Texas, but big things are happening at its only high school. As a school that is totally committed to providing students with challenging learning opportunities in science, technology, and math, the … Continue reading >>> High School Students from Dripping Springs, TX Use ShopBot Tools to Rout the Competition I’ve always talked to myself. Lately, I find, there’s little I can accomplish, if I don’t talk myself through it. Furthermore, as I find it helps me, I’ve gotten much worse. It seems I talk to myself at all times, about all things, and in the company of others. The Name Game When I … Continue reading >>> Talk Nice To Me As the affordability of CNC, and Digital Printing gets better, and using it becomes more intuitive, these technologies find their way into adjacent fields, like museums. This affects your institution in two very important ways. Cost Savings. My work while at Field Museum, taught me much about how to build cost … Continue reading >>> Digital Fabrication and your Museum
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 Some time back I posted a project we completed on the ShopBot Forum that showed 4 Walnut Legs machined with 4 concave sides (Read forum thread). This machining was done by manual manipulation of a cutting file similar to what the Virtual Tool “Extruder” does. The difference is that when the Extruder extrapolates a file, … Continue reading >>> Z Extruder Although it’s fun to always be doing new things, sometimes it’s a plus to be able to reuse work that you’ve done in the past. It not only saves you time, but also gets you looking at old designs with new eyes. Here are two examples that I’ve worked on recently. Puzzles: 5 or 6 … Continue reading >>> Reusing Designs With my great interest in renewable energy I have been working on wind powered generator which is efficient and cost effective and so that’s how the Shopbot came in handy to help me produce the aerofoil design of the blades. I used a combination of positive and negative molds for the blades. Below is the … Continue reading >>> My Wind Power Generator |
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