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Maker Pro News: Maker Pros do B2B, Indiegogo Launches a Marketplace, and More

Maker Pro News: Maker Pros do B2B, Indiegogo Launches a Marketplace, and More

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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This past week, Inventables spotlighted its maker pro users, Indiegogo launched a marketplace, and new 3D printing frontiers were reached.

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Easel Pro Launches for Fast, Easy, Commercial CNC Project Making

Easel Pro Launches for Fast, Easy, Commercial CNC Project Making

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.

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Inventables is launching Easel Pro, an expanded paid service that adds new features to add speed and flexibility to professional projects.

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3D carving

3D Carving Is More Than Just a Tool, It’s a Community (and a Book)

Zach Kaplan

By Zach Kaplan

Zach Kaplan

Zach Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Inventables. He founded the company in 2002 and bootstrapped it until 2009. A maker his whole life, he is on a mission to ignite digital manufacturing world wide and provide everyone with ambition a way to get started. Named a “modern Leonardo” by the Museum of Science and Industry, his dream is create a world with 2 million digital manufacturers that have raving fans, not customers.

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Inventables wants to build communities that encourage creators to try 3D carving. To that end, they’re making their machines more accessible.

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New X-Carve CNC Router Bulks Up for Advanced Usage

New X-Carve CNC Router Bulks Up for Advanced Usage

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.

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Last May, we spotted what looked like an updated version of Inventable’s X-Carve. The company has now made it official.

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Is This a New X-Carve CNC Machine?

Is This a New X-Carve CNC Machine?

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.

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In the back of the Inventables Maker Faire meetup last night, we noticed a different-looking X-Carve CNC machine, with a thicker cross rail and an attached power supply with a new array of control buttons.

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Your School Could Win a CNC Carving Machine from Inventables

Your School Could Win a CNC Carving Machine from Inventables

By Matt Stultz

Matt Stultz

Matt is a community organizer and founder of 3DPPVD, Ocean State Maker Mill, and HackPittsburgh. He is Make's digital fabrication and reviews editor.

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Last year, Inventables held a contest to give a CNC carving machine to a public makerspace in every state in The United States of America. At National Maker Faire, Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan announced that they will be at it again. This year, instead of awarding the machines to makerspaces, Inventables will be giving them to schools […]

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