• Projects

    Reclaimed Wood and Handibot with Richard Hill

    by  • March 7, 2017 • Projects

    Reclaimed Wood Objects with Character At Handibot and ShopBot, we love to hear from our customers and see some of the awesome projects that are being done on our tools. The network of faithful users who host us onsite and post on social media have blown us away with ideas that shape the way...

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    Router Table – Handibot Style

    by  • February 11, 2016 • Projects

    For a while now, I have been thinking about flipping a Handibot over and have the bit pointing up like a router table. Mostly we think about using the Handibot like a smart hand drill, where we move the tool around a stationary work piece. With this upside down Handibot, I was thinking of it...

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    Flip Operation on a Handibot

    by  • December 18, 2015 • Projects

    I was talking with my neighbor the other day, and he was in the process of making some wine glass holders. He told me that he had found that the holder needed to be about 10″ wide so that large glasses wouldn’t hit the bottle when put in place. I immediately started to think about...

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    Utilizing Scrap Material

    by  • December 9, 2015 • Projects

    The other day I was looking for some scrap material to use for some stocking stuffers I wanted to make. While I was poking around, I noticed we had some junky old pallets piling up at our loading dock that I’ve been meaning to get rid of. The Handibot’s portability made it the perfect tool...

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    New Collaborative Design and Fab Resource: Fusion 360

    by  • November 28, 2015 • News, Projects

    Handibots might not be a big enough tools to build a production shop around (or, maybe they are?), but you may find my recent blog on the 100kGarage website about a new cloud resource for collaborative design work of interest. Fusion 360, from Autodesk, provides some interesting new resources for getting from a digital...

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    Doing Art with Handibot

    by  • August 26, 2015 • News, Projects

    Five years ago, I tried to take some time off from ShopBot and use the time to indulge in several of my favorite pursuits: boating, painting, and digital-fabbing. I was hoping to combine drawings and photographs of water scenes done from my kayak into a type of art I think of as “bas-relief, painted carving.” I...

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