• community shops

    People, Not Pixels: Thoughts on start-up success from the Standing Desk Ninja

    by  • January 22, 2014 • collaboration, community shops, maker spaces, prototyping, shopbot, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 1 Comment

    The Ninja Standing Desk is just like it sounds — and it may well be the world’s first portable and affordable version of the permanently installed workstations you see around office and home businesses around the country. The “Ninja” behind the Ninja Standing Desk (www.NinjaStandingDesk.com) is San Franciscan Dan McDonley, and his product has...

    Read more →

    MAKEzine reviews 2013’s major developments for Making Professionals

    by  • January 2, 2014 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Handibot Power Tool, Maker Movement, maker spaces, Resources, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    Maker Pro Newsletter’s DC Denison pulls together a round-up of 2013’s developments on the Maker Pro frontier — where making meets business.  Turns out it was a very busy, productive year indeed. Put it on your to-do list to learn more about these start-ups and initiatives — read the round-up here. One that stands...

    Read more →

    Distributed Digital Fabrication of Handibot Smart Tools Using the 100kGarage Network

    by  • July 9, 2013 • collaboration, community shops, distributed manufacturing, Handibot Power Tool, Maker Movement, maker spaces, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 4 Comments

    We recently launched our Kickstarter campaign (www.Handibot.com/fund) for the development of ShopBot’s new Handibot Smart Tool. We seem to be off to a good start in the campaign, but we have a number of goals for the campaign beyond just selling Handibots. The two most important to us are:  1) getting the understanding and...

    Read more →

    “How to Make a Makerspace” attracts crowd of entrepreneurs to Artisan’s Asylum

    by  • February 20, 2013 • collaboration, community shops, distributed manufacturing, Maker Movement

    The weekend of February 1 and 2, ShopBot’s Martha Barbour and Bill Young attended the How to Make a Makerspace event held at Artisan’s Asylum, a community Makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts. ShopBot Tools was a sponsor and featured equipment vendor at the event, hosted by Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE Magazine. The goal of this...

    Read more →

    Fabbing Plexiglas Desktop Tool Enclosures: from McKenzie Digital Fab

    by  • February 9, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, shopbot • 1 Comment

    While working at ShopBot alongside their development team in helping to create the Desktop tool, early on we started seeing the need for safety enclosures around the head of the tool. The early versions of this were hoping to be a surrounding that would offer protection from flying debris, a sound barrier, and a...

    Read more →

    Making My Future: The Journey of a 100kGarages Fabber

    by  • January 30, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, furniture, Maker Movement, shopbot, The Digital Fab Revolution • 0 Comments

    “I’ve always been fascinated with how things worked. I guess I’ve been a Maker since I was about ten years old.” Hi, I’m Brian McKenzie, of McKenzie Digital Fab —  a business that I just recently “gave birth to.”  I also recently joined 100kGarages.com, and thought it would be fun to keep a journal...

    Read more →

    Chris Anderson’s MAKERS: The New Industrial Revolution, reviewed by Ted Hall

    by  • January 23, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, The Digital Fab Revolution • 0 Comments

    If you haven’t had a chance to pick up Chris Anderson’s recently released new book, MAKERS: The New Industrial Revolution (Crown Business, New York, 2012), I think you’ll enjoy the read. Anderson has just ended a stint as editor of Wired Magazine and has been a close observer of the leading edges of technology...

    Read more →

    Maker space NextFab Studio re-opens in Philadelphia

    by  • January 19, 2013 • 5-axis tools, community shops, maker spaces, shopbot, water jet cutter

    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....

    Read more →