Starting a business based on the capabilities of a piece of equipment is exactly the same as starting a business doing almost anything else. There is no piece of equipment that guarantees riches to its owner. The goal for any business is the same. You need to find customers and offer them something that...
Read more →CNC Routers like the ShopBot are extremely capable tools. They can make amazingly precise cuts. They can repeat parts flawlessly and they help fabricate shapes that would be nearly impossible to cut by hand. One of the most exciting things about CNC routers is the opportunities they can offer to folks who have the...
Read more →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 →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 Maker Faire-ians walked around inside it and checked it out, and learned about the easy-to-use software employed...
Read more →How does technology influence the size and shape of business? What’s the most effective kind of organization to house low-cost CNC tools? What are the opportunities ahead? The rapid decline in the cost of capital equipment such as CNC tools, along with the capacity to share or sell designs around the world, suggest that...
Read more →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 →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 →“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 →“ as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era.” Jeremy Rikin, Wharton economist. Bloomberg Business Week, 2/16/12 “Artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital manufacturing . . . these technologies will make manufacturing more creative, less expensive, more local and more personal.” Washington Post, 1/10/12 Last Spring, Bill Young...
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