By Sallye Coyle, October 16th, 2019
This blog post originally appeared on the 100k Garages blog in 2017. I often get requests for information regarding two-sided machining on a ShopBot tool and figured with that many people asking about it, that we should cross-post it here on the ShopBot blog for additional accessibility. I have edited a few things to …
Continue reading >>> Machining a Two-sided 3D Model Created in Solidworks
By Sallye Coyle, November 10th, 2014
Whether it is woodworking or robotics, one of the challenges of teaching in a public high school is that the bell rings for the next class just as the students/teachers have really settled into their projects. So it was a privilege to have 3 students from Kelvin Hasch’s woodworking program at Greely High School …
Continue reading >>> A Day Without “Bells”
By Michael Berliner, October 19th, 2014 Gustavo Bonet, architect and designer. He helped out at the ShopBot booth at this year’s Maker Faire NYC
Gustavo Bonet is a traditionally trained architect who started making furniture in Florida before moving to NYC to get his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. Gustavo says, “During my time at Columbia, I developed …
Continue reading >>> Meet Gustavo Bonet. To the NYC design world, he’s becoming known as “the Fixer.”
By Nate Zellmer, October 8th, 2014 ShopBot Standalone Indexer Tool
ShopBot is known for making high quality CNC tools at levels of complexity and cost that are approachable to individual users. These tools perform full 3 axis CNC machining operations on a wide range of sizes and types of material. Adding an indexing head, often called an indexer or …
Continue reading >>> Introducing the Standalone Indexer Tool
By Sallye Coyle, August 10th, 2014 In TJ’s training at ShopBot this past week, of the 10 entities represented, 6 were involved in education in some form or another. Another 3 were “life long learners” with the idea of using their new ShopBots in a career change because they had been laid off from their old job, or were creating a …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Training, Aug 2014: Life Long Learning
By Sallye Coyle, March 3rd, 2014 Bill Young brought in this sign, made from acrylic that has been V-Carved, plywood that has been pocketed and cut out, and a peg that was 3D printed. At the bottom of the sign is a strip of LEDs, their changing colors programmed with an Arduino. While it is a simple enough project, it contains …
Continue reading >>> What can you teach from making a sign?
By Michael Berliner, February 12th, 2014 Professors at Florida State University in Tallahassee are helping to prepare their students for a multitude of career possibilities, by exposing them to the techniques of digital fabrication. They’re making use of digital fab from many angles, and it’s fascinating to learn about. Projects range from a huge 3D printer that instructor Winston Graves describes …
Continue reading >>> Florida State U. informs and inspires with digital fabrication techniques
By Michael Berliner, February 12th, 2014 Professors at Florida State University in Tallahassee are helping to prepare their students for a multitude of career possibilities, by exposing them to the techniques of digital fabrication. They’re making use of digital fab from many angles, and it’s fascinating to learn about.
Windham Graves is a studio technician who heads up the Multi-Modal …
Continue reading >>> Florida State U. informs and inspires with digital fabrication techniques
By Michael Berliner, January 4th, 2014 In the last months of 2013, as Santa’s helpers hurriedly made presents, the elves at Quirky’s headquarters in NYC were hard at work bringing new gift ideas to market. One of them is the Nimbus, a highly customizable 4-dial dashboard that tracks what’s important to you. According to Quirky’s site, you can “personalize each gauge …
Continue reading >>> Quirky takes product development to the crowd. And ShopBot plays an important role in prototyping.
By Michael Berliner, November 22nd, 2013 ShopBot Tools was excited to participate at ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX) Nov. 19 -21 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. ABX is one of the largest events for the design and construction industry in the country, and the largest regional conference and tradeshow in New England — a perfect venue for us to introduce the …
Continue reading >>> Boston ABX Show was Buzzing about Handibot
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