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First, let me give you a little background. In 2008, I drove my camper from my home in VA to Austin, TX with a couple of friends and collaborators, heading to the Austin Maker Faire to build a digitally fabricated shed at the Faire. On our way through Alabama we stopped at Rural Studio in Newbern … Continue reading >>> Bill Young’s Dirty Digital Jobs Tour: Visiting Rural Studio The approximate route for the first leg of Bill’s Digital Dirty Jobs Tour. At the end of this month, I’ll be driving to Austin, Texas and back, making the first couple of Dirty Digital Jobs visits. I’m awfully sick of winter so my plan is to take the southern route along the panhandle of Florida … Continue reading >>> Bill Young’s Dirty Digital Jobs Tour: Planning is Underway! Seaside Small Craft, Willis Wharf VA Bill Young, our creative guru of productive robotic gizmos, describes his latest ideas in Bill’s Corner. I’ve been trying to come up with a terribly clever and witty introduction to my new part of the ShopBot web site, but finally gave up and decided to just let y’all know … Continue reading >>> Bill Young Ted Hall and Bill Palumbo recently made the trip to the UK for an interesting and fun Camp in the shop of Robert Lofthouse, a developer of CNC “plylining” in England. Here’s the first part of Bill’s report…getting to Robert’s shop: After connecting at the Newark, NJ airport we caught a flight over to … Continue reading >>> Ted and Bill’s Excellent Euro Adventure: A Travel Story (Part 1) In March of 1999, a small group of ShopBot owners and other folks curious about CNC met in Bill Young’s shop on the coast of Virginia for the first of what was to become “ShopBot Camps.” Although these informal gatherings of ShopBot owners were sponsored by ShopBot, they were never intended to be sales tools, … Continue reading >>> We’re going back to Camp! Assembling the Weekend Dinghy Imagine being a high school student and having the opportunity to pilot a plane or a boat, learn how to design and model planes and boats, and understand the businesses behind the aviation and marine industries—all while taking core high school courses. Davis Aerospace and Maritime® High School, a unique … Continue reading >>> Building Boats, and a River to Float Them On Shelter 2.0, the Open Design transitional housing design created by Bill Young and Robert Bridges, has just made the “release” files available for a new 8’x8′ design that not only reduces the materials needed, but includes a lot of small changes to make them easier to assemble and less hardware-dependent. You may have seen early … Continue reading >>> Shelter 2.0 Gets a Boost from Vectric |
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