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A Woodworking Economic Perspective It was just a few weeks ago that we returned from the AWFS Woodworking Trade Show in Las Vegas. I had been looking forward to the show as an opportunity to get a pulse on what is happening with ShopBotters, woodworkers, and the economy. Let me first note that the … Continue reading >>> For the New Economic Reality: A Shifting Emphasis to Local Production The Big News! Over the last several months we’ve been working on what we believe will be an amazing new resource/capability for ShopBotters who are professional cabinetmakers or furniture makers. That resource is eCabinets — a leading design and production system for cabinets and furniture. eCabinets is a groundbreaking concept owned and developed by … Continue reading >>> Cabinet Software: Amazing New Opportunity for ShopBotters Recently, Wired Magazine posted a blog article about a “FabLab” that was being set up in Jalalabad Afganistan. Front and center is a picture of the Lab’s ShopBot. The article mentions Amy Sun who is a primary collaborator of Neil Gershenfeld in the FabLab movement (MIT Media Lab and author of: FAB: The … Continue reading >>> Fab Assembler Screen Display Whether you are Running XP or Vista, you can configure the layout of ShopBot Software windows to your own preferences. The main Console Display of for inputting Commands and viewing running files can be sized, positioned, or even hidden if all you need to do is to start files running. The Preview … Continue reading >>> Vista Views II: Setting Up Your Vista (or XP) Computer for ShopBot; My Preferences Well, maybe not my shop … I note in a recent Make Magazine Blog that Make‘s publisher Dale Dougherty sat forward in his seat about the same time I did during Tuesday night’s presidential debates. Tom Brokaw had just asked whether, in order to solve the energy and climate crisis, we should support … Continue reading >>> "100,000 Garages …" Vista’s “Flip” view of open programs At our ShopBot Training in Durham last week, I was asked what I thought about Microsoft’s Vista operating system and about using it with ShopBots. So I’m taking that as my opportunity to do a little venting about Vista, which in the final analysis, is something that … Continue reading >>> Vista Views I: Everybody Needs to Vent a Little … I got the chance to visit the Museum of Modern Art’s “Home Delivery” show just after it opened in July with my family. We had a great time visiting all 5 of the houses, and it was pretty amazing to see the ShopBot-Cut house sitting right there in the middle of Manhattan (see … Continue reading >>> The MoMA Home Delivery Exhibit [House Finished] Here are a some shots from day 9 and 15 of assembly of the yourHouse project at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC). See Article Below. Almost Finished, July 9 A few days earlier … Here are a few pictures taken the second day of assembly of the yourHouse project at the Museum of … Continue reading >>> ShopBot-Cut CNC House UPDATES Last week I took a day off and made a field trip to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I’m always happy to get to see the Chesapeake Bay and to eat crabcakes but I was particularly looking forward to visiting Bill Young’s current project: Cutting the 600+ sheets of plywood that make up … Continue reading >>> ShopBot CNC Housebuilding For many ShopBotters, owning a ShopBot is a business proposition. Sure, a lot of ShopBots are used as production tools in manufacturing environments and as small components of a bigger business. At the other extreme, an increasing number of non-commercial ShopBots are being used for hobby, home, or D-I-Y projects. However, many ShopBots are … Continue reading >>> ShopBotting for Profit |
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