Chris Thompson is the Founder and Director of TEC Foundation, an organization I recently wrote a blog about on 100kSchools.org. With tremendous support and mentorship from the U.S. Navy, NASA, and a lot of involvement and financial support from local communities, TEC Foundation has started opening TEC Hub community maker spaces on the Eastern...
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First…it’s probably not a secret, but the Convention Center at the Maritime Institute close to BWI airport is a great place to hold a meeting. If you like boats and ships, you will be in heaven. It includes a small bar where, one evening, I set up the Handibot on a table and ran it....
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This week, I’m getting ready for a number of upcoming STEM education-related conferences and festivals. I’ll be taking both a ShopBot Desktop and a Handibot tool, and want to have attendees get the thrill of running a ShopBot. I use what I call the “3 minute demo” that lets someone design a sign in...
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We just took several Handibot Smart Power Tools to the Journal of Light Construction Live show in Providence, RI, the premier East Coast show for builders and contractors. We wanted to show the attendees some things that we knew that a Handibot can do, but also get some ideas from them on how a...
Read more →Hello! The other day we posted an update for our backers on the Kickstarter page — but it’s possible that a technical glitch, gremlin or misplaced gezundheit prevented our supporters from receiving an email about it. So.. here’s a link to the update. Check it out! Lots to report. We’re working away to open...
Read more →Do you know about Core77? You should. Since the mid-90’s, Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals — with tons of useful articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, portfolio hosting, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a...
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We’re so excited to see all of the wonderful app ideas coming to Handibot App HQ from people everywhere. We thought he had enough ideas in the “hopper” to take a look and see which ideas have earned the highest public rankings. Congratulations to Gregory Chapuisat, John King, and David Timperley! Greg’s idea for...
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Hello Handibot fans, We’ve been working hard to implement design improvements that were conceived during testing of preproduction tools both by outside beta testers and by us in-house. We are quite happy with the results and think you will be too! We’ll share with you below some of the many updates and improvements...
Read more →From the start, we’ve known that the key to success with our Handibot Smart Tool was a sort of “chicken/egg” problem. Which comes first? The smart tool, or the library of apps that run it? We believe the answer is “both.” Of course we now have a pretty amazing, and still evolving, Handibot Smart...
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