By Michael Berliner, August 16th, 2015 ShopBot’s Sallye Coyle, FabLab manager Walter Gonzalez Amao, and ShopBot’s Ted Hall display the Peruvian flag (home country to many of ShopBot’s recent guests).
“It was nice to be able to just spend casual time and compare notes with other FabLab managers.” “It was fun to enjoy our community.” “The seminar was very …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Plays Host to International FabLab Visitors
By Michael Berliner, December 8th, 2014
A Case Study: Ryan Patterson’s MyHue.
The potential for individuals to create, design and manufacture products themselves continues to be realized every day all around the country. With the affordability of robust digital fabrication tools such as the ShopBot Desktop, running a micro-factory out of handy space is not a dream, but reality. We …
Continue reading >>> How to start up a micro-factory in your garage.
By Ryan Patterson, February 10th, 2014 Hi, I’m Ryan Patterson, head of Production Support at ShopBot Tools. One important aspect of our company that I think sets us apart is the way we work with people to customize solutions for their production needs, from helping them to choose the right tools or tools, to assisting them with the configuration of tools …
Continue reading >>> Production Case Study: Handibot Smart Tool
By Michael Berliner, January 22nd, 2014 The Ninja Standing Desk is just like it sounds — it may well be the world’s first portable and affordable version of the permanently installed workstations you see around office and home businesses around the country.
The “Ninja” behind the Ninja Standing Desk is San Franciscan Dan McDonley, and his product has become a huge …
Continue reading >>> Hot new product “Ninja Standing Desk” produced out of TechShop San Francisco
I’ve been working on another dining table, this one a “Prairie Style” table for a client out of quartersawn white oak. The design includes a bunch of mortise and tenon joints, which of course I decided to cut on the ShopBot (is there another way?). A dilemma stemmed from my lack of either a tool …
Continue reading >>> Machining Solid Wood – Mortises
By Gary Campbell, June 2nd, 2008 As a relative newcomer to the ShopBot community, let me first say I am honored to be asked to join the likes of my fellow columnists. I am sure that all of you respect them, and their opinions, as much as I do.
Over the next few months I will try to use my woodworking …
Continue reading >>> A PVC Vacuum Table
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