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Bill Young’s Dirty Digital Jobs Tour: Visiting Rural Studio

By Bill Young [Bill's Corner], March 18th, 2017

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 …

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Homebuilt Kits enable anyone to easily build a code-compliant home.

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 …

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International Woodworking Faire was huge!

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 …

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Can you CNC a classic American chair? Of course you can.

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 …

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Homebuilt is Re-Inventing Homebuilding with Distributed Manufacturing (and ShopBots)

By Michael Berliner, June 12th, 2014

Guest ShopBot blog contributor Dennis Michaud is an architect and was one of the founders and leaders of the highly successful California company, Blu Homes. Michaud’s new venture, Homebuilt, is more than a company; it aspires to also become a new business model for home building. In this post he shares his vision for Homebuilt: …

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Boston ABX Show was Buzzing about Handibot

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 …

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ShopBot helps build the home of the future!

By Michael Berliner, November 7th, 2013

This Fall 2013, a team comprised of software engineers and designers from Colorado and Massachusetts, architects from the UK, and some ShopBotting digital fabbers from Virginia got together and built a house. In two days.

Thousands of visitors to the World Maker Faire in NYC walked around inside it and checked it out, and learned …

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ShopBot Launches Kickstarter for the Handibot™ Smart Power Tool

By Michael Berliner, June 27th, 2013

It’s an app-driven power tool. It’s a portable 3D cutter. It’s the Handibot!

ShopBot Tools today (June 27, 2013) launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign (handibot.com/fund) to support development and distribution of its latest hardware innovation, the Handibot™ smart power tool. This 30-day campaign hopes to raise $125,000, and one of the main rewards …

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The MoMA Home Delivery Exhibit [House Finished]

By Ted Hall [Reporting from ShopBot], ShopBot Tools, July 14th, 2008

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 story …

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ShopBot-Cut CNC House UPDATES

By Ted Hall [Reporting from ShopBot], ShopBot Tools, July 14th, 2008

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 Modern …

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