Quirky takes product development to the crowd. And ShopBot plays an important role in prototyping.

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 …

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Boston ABX Show was Buzzing about Handibot

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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Spacecraft Studios invites you to launch your own creativity.

This 21st century community crafts studio is bridging the gap between Making and Education

Where: Charleston, SC

Site: SpaceCraftStudios.com

Digital Fabrication Tools: Handibot Smart Power Tool, Makerbot Replicator 2, Makerbot Digitizer, Sawgrass Technologies’ FabricMaker

“Come one! Come All!” shouts the website of Spacecraft Studios. “Inviting makers, inventors, crafters, stitchers, builders, artisans, poets, printers, …

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ShopBot Launches Kickstarter for Handibot Smart Power Tool

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

ShopBot Tools, Inc., 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 for contributors …

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Engraving Acrylic for Mother’s Day

Life is hard when you are a 7th Grader who doesn’t have a present for Mother’s Day. However, have no fear…ShopBot to the rescue!

The Set-up: A student at my school…let’s call him “D”…approached me at the end of the day and told me that he wanted to make something nice for his Mom for …

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Featured Teacher: Jack Chen, Sewanhaka High School

Once again, manufacturing history is being made at Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York. Back in the 1940s, Sewanhaka helped train young men and women as technicians for the aircraft industry on Long Island and also to meet post-war industrial needs. Today, high school students here are developing the skills required in our …

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School News – Future Woodworkers of America

In the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV, ShopBot CNCs help teachers link woodworking to computer technologies and design, and provide a new (digital) way of producing project parts.

American Woodworker (April/May 2010) A visit with Las Vegas area high school woodworking teachers. I recently had the opportunity to tour a few Las Vegas, Nevada area high school woodshops to talked shop with the teachers and some of the students. …

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Students Operating CNC Digital Fabrication Equipment in Boatshop

Students Learn Digital Fabrication at Bayfront Maritime Center

May 28, 2011 The new ShopBot CNC digital fabrication equipment is up and running with Erie, PA, high school students in the Bayfront Maritime Center Boatshop, a community-based educational center. These kids are learning valuable 21st century workplace skills. First they design a project using a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program. This data is then converted into a Computer Numeric Control (CNC) toolpath to run the digital fabrication machine. …

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ShopBot helps The Eli Whitney Museum celebrate invention and design.

ShopBot helps The Eli Whitney Museum celebrate invention and design.

The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop provides a wide array of unique and exciting learning workshops for children, teachers, and families. Every year, thousands of students construct projects that convey core principles of invention, design, physics, problem-solving and creativity — and the use of a ShopBot Tool has helped the Workshop immensely. …

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