ShopBot Tools, Inc., today (June 27, 2013) launches 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 is to get a first-run Handibot Smart Digital Power Tool six...
Read more →Right now, our friends Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher (AtFAB), are undertaking a Kickstarter campaign (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/filson-rohrbacher/furniture-fabbed-locally) that will grow and promote small-shop digital fabrication. Anne and Gary are longtime users and promoters of 100kGarages. More importantly, they are evangelists for distributed manufacturing – for using power of digital fabrication to get production back into...
Read more →Based in Mission, British Columbia, Mainland Woodworks is a family-run design and wood crafting team that is able to bring ideas from a dream to a reality that you can see, touch and admire for years to come. Mainland Woodworkers has joined the 100kGarages community, and is pleased to offer a wide range of...
Read more →Marble, stainless, porcelain, and even pottery, we’ve all seen sinks made with basic materials but few of us have seen wooden sinks. Mike from America’s Woodshop in Bloomington created a turned wooden sink for the DIY Network’s “I Hate My Bath” and it got us thinking about our planned bathroom remodel. We knew we wanted to...
Read more →So as most of you know, I do a lot of machining in acrylic, I have for several years now. Recently the company that I cut 95% of this acrylic for has gone through a growth phase. That’s great on one hand, but as a small shop I have not yet mastered what to...
Read more →CNC routers need bits. They determine the kind of carving you can do, the resolution of your finished designs, and how fast you can move through the material. They come with cutting edges that pull up or push down (sometimes both), they have square or shaped ends, they are made for speed or accuracy,...
Read more →Another week, another set of projects that keep my ShopBot humming. Here is video of some of the cutting that I have done this past week! McKenzie Digital Fab video http://youtu.be/3X8FkPAFxU0 The first part of the video starts out cutting an impact modified acrylic for a customer of mine who is making windshields for...
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 →We knew there were 100kGarages Fabbers out there doing very groovy things and now we have some more proof! Let us introduce Dan Thomson and his business, Visionary Effects, based out of Pittsburgh, PA. Fabber and designer Dan Thomson gives life to robotic creatures, animatronic creations as well as invites human engagement with interactive...
Read more →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...
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