The Handibot team at ShopBot Tools is proud to be helping with the CTE (Career & Technical Education) Makeover Challenge, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. Schools from all across the U.S. recently entered their designs for a school-based makerspace, and the winning schools will win resources to make those makerspaces for...
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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...
Read more →Non-profit organizations, particularly local, smaller institutions, have to work hard to make every dollar go as far it can. This is certainly the case at Triangle Land Conservancy, which works here in Chapel Hill, Durham and surrounding areas to safeguard clean water, protect natural habitats, connect people with nature, and support local, sustainable...
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Version 1.1 Update Much of our efforts this month have gone into the change-over from version 1.0 of the developer’s edition handibot to version 1.1. This update included a number of design improvements focused on the user experience with the tool; the new front panel design provides easier access to the router for tool...
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1. Handibot Hood We’re just finishing up a hood-type enclosure accessory for Handibots (for v1.0 and the upcoming v1.1). We’ll call it the “Handibot Hood”. This enclosure helps contain flying debris and somewhat reduces noise from the router. It should be available as an accessory in the Handibot store later in the week. To...
Read more →This is a continuation of my previous blog post, responding to potential Handibotter Tim Deagan about the subject of how we are going to manage ongoing releases of Handibots and Handibot accessories. Here I reflect more generally on how and why open collaboration is attractive and practical. When I asked Tim if it was...
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A couple days ago, I received an email from potential Handibotter, Tim Deagan. Tim asked a couple of useful and challenging questions about the timing of our upcoming development releases for Handibot. Because I think a lot of people have similar questions, I asked him if it would be okay to share them in a blog...
Read more →Michael A. Parker attended the NYC Maker Faire this fall in Queens, NY (just as he has in years past), not imagining that he’d end up walking away as the winner of a Handibot Smart Power Tool to have in his studio. Parker says, “I was surprised and thrilled to have won the Facebook...
Read more →The portability of Handibot makes it a perfect tool to take on the road to demonstrate Digital Fabrication at Museums, Libraries and in the Classroom. Since the CAD (Computer-Aided Design) /CAM (Computer-Aided Machining) software is the same for all the ShopBots, one can get a feel for the process without having to have a...
Read more →Our long awaited “Introduction to Handibot App Development” is now available on our Github site. Note that the document is a conceptual one that provides an overview of how we are thinking about Handibot App Development and what we are working on in terms of the hardware and software system that underlies it. As...
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