A Journey from Maker to Maker PRO: The Timbrr Stylus story

By Michael Berliner, May 15th, 2014

The first thing that strikes you when you step inside Dom Peralta’s garage/maker space in San Mateo isn’t necessarily the high-pitched drilling of his ShopBot Desktop’s spindle. Rather it’s the very pleasant and heady aroma of natural California cedar. That’s because the ShopBot is hard at work precision-cutting wooden dowels of cedar for the Timbrr …

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May 15th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Digital Fabrication, Makerspaces, Manufacturing, Product Prototyping, ShopBot User Stories | ( 67 ) | Leave a comment

NextFab Studio has Grand Re-opening in Philadelphia

By Michael Berliner, January 19th, 2013

ShopBot’s Ted Hall reports, “This past Thursday Jan. 17 I participated in the Re-Opening of NextFab Studio … an amazing local maker-space in Philadelphia. It’s a large workshop with all the equipment you can imagine, great individual work spaces, an operating Cafe, and some amazing digital fab tools, including a large 5-Axis water-jet cutter. Looks …

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January 19th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: 5-Axis, Digital Fabrication, Makerspaces | ( 67 ) | Leave a comment

Thoughts & Comments on Digital Fabrication and the New Industrial Revolution

By Ted Hall [Reporting from ShopBot], ShopBot Tools, February 8th, 2010

I have been wanting to post some thoughts on two recent, heavily discussed, blog articles , Chris Anderson’s (of Wired Magazine) report on new kinds of small manufacturing operations and Joel Johnson’s (of gizmodo) spirited critique. Between the two, there’s been a lot of good discussion of the ways in which new technologies do and …

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