I'd really like to figure out how to make a decent jig for clamping framing lumber consistently and square under this device. With that there would be a lot of great experiments to do in joinery. Such a jig exists in the demos that sold the machine to many of us. For some reason ShopBot won't share that with us, so we're on our own.
As such I'm sharing my first failed experiment.
I whipped this up last weekend but didn't have a chance to try it until today. It's a nonstarter. When I adjusted it over a 2x4 I had realized I'd lost so much Z I wouldn't be able to cut through.
For the built in clamps the idea was t-nuts on the side with threaded rods to tighten up blocks against the stock. It was really annoying to tighten (quick release would be much better). But also you couldn't really tighten the blocks well, they wanted to spin when the rod was fully in the t-nut on them. So they already had to be in position before tightening the rods into them. When they did press and get tight you could pop the t-nut on the clamp block out. Another issue I hadn't considered was keeping the clamped object square to the base. That would have been very hard with this design. Yes, that was part of the goal but I also threw this together to just try it before investing much time in it. Good thing since it didn't work out at all.
I like the idea of adjustable height bench cookie feet, I may revisit that. I think the next jig will be a simple bed with t-track in it to use in clamping things down.