By Michael Berliner, October 21st, 2015 Habitat for Humanity home with Homebuilt framing
The housing market crash and economy-wide downturn of 2008 shook the lives of millions of Americans to the core. People lost jobs and started losing their homes. People stopped qualifying for mortgages to buy a home. One person’s response was this: Dennis Michaud, a successful architect and …
Continue reading >>> Homebuilt Kits enable anyone to easily build a code-compliant home.
By Jeanne Taylor, August 23rd, 2014
The 2014 International Woodworking Faire took over two of the buildings at the Georgia World Congress Center August 20-23rd. Building B, where our booth was located, pulsed with activity. “There was definitely more traffic than in the past few years and we’re seeing more cabinetmakers looking to automate their businesses,” Ryan Patterson said.
Cutting …
Continue reading >>> International Woodworking Faire was huge!
By Michael Berliner, August 21st, 2014 Architect, designer and educator John Thomas Heida relaxes in his retro, flat-pack chair
John Thomas Heida is an architectural designer, a furniture designer, and a digital-fabrication specialist at the School of Visual Art’s Visible Futures Lab. He teaches at the New York School of Interior Design, School of Visual Arts and at …
Continue reading >>> Can you CNC a classic American chair? Of course you can.
By Michael Berliner, July 15th, 2014 photo (c) 2014 The Field Museum, photo by Emily Krakoff
Look closely and you can see John Zehren in The Field Museum’s Production Shop, just behind the shop’s full size ShopBot PRSalpha CNC router. John is the Exhibitions Productions Shop Supervisor, and has been with The Field Museum in various capacities since 1997. In …
Continue reading >>> Chicago’s Field Museum uses the ShopBot to put everything on display.
By Michael Berliner, July 7th, 2014 John Murray Productions of Oakland, California, is a full service event planning and production company specializing in scenery and stagecraft for corporate clients, focused on designing and producing innovative, memorable, and cost effective special events. Just a brief glance through their gallery of work and you see that John and his crew of 12 graphic …
Continue reading >>> John Murray creates dazzling environments for high-end corporate clients.
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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