By Jeanne Taylor, November 13th, 2014
Just about any time of day, any day of the week in Balstrop, Louisiana, you’ll find an industrious production facility with 4 ShopBot PRSalpha ATC tools running at full tilt. About 11 years ago, James Brent (Pastor Jim) was called into the ministry and felt compelled to witness to people in need; specifically people …
Continue reading >>> Freedom Challenge Ministries serves more people in need, thanks to their growing ShopBot-based business.
By Renaissance Woodworkers, November 13th, 2014 My name is Eva Bondgien and I am from the Renaissance Academy. We recently received a ShopBot CNC machine and are excited to learn about computer aided manufacturing from our teacher Kyle Stapleton.
The project we just worked on was the creation of a cribbage board for the local craft fair. Using a different part …
Continue reading >>> Adventures Of A High School CAM Class: Episode 7
By Michael Berliner, November 12th, 2014 Designer/Manufacturer Sidney Molepo
Film actresses Jessica Chastain (“The Help,” “Zero Dark Thirty”), Cody Horn (“Magic Mike”), and internationally renowned singer Celine Dion have something in common: their love of Sidney Molepo’s unique shoes and fashion accessories.
Mr. Molepo, who was educated as an architect and furniture designer, in recent years has turned his …
Continue reading >>> Celebs like Jessica Chastain love wearing Sidney Molepo sandals. Sidney Molepo loves his ShopBot.
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 Renaissance Woodworkers, September 29th, 2014 My name is Eva Bondgien and I am from the Renaissance Academy. We recently received a ShopBot CNC machine and are excited to learn about computer aided manufacturing from our teacher Kyle Stapleton. Our first project was V-Carving plaques of our names with an image we chose. Using V-Carve was a great first step in …
Continue reading >>> Adventures Of A High School CAM Class: Episode 6
By Michael Berliner, September 1st, 2014 The ELF by Organic Transit, outside of their headquarters in Durham, NC
If you’ve been walking or driving around the revitalized and thriving downtown Durham, North Carolina, in the past year or so, then sightings of a colorful, pedal- and sun-powered trike called the ELF won’t surprise you. As described on Organic Transit’s website, …
Continue reading >>> Organic Transit’s human-powered transportation: good for people and the planet
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 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, July 31st, 2014 Paris’s first Maker Faire took place in late June at the Centquatre Center.
ShopBot had a presence there, thanks to Sallye from ShopBot putting a Handibot in a suitcase and flying it over for the event and leFabShop from San Malo bringing their Desktop. LeFabShop has a variety of digital fab tools and classes …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fab at the Maker Faire, Paris
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