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Shapeoko’s Steady March Toward a Better, Affordable CNC

Shapeoko’s Steady March Toward a Better, Affordable CNC

By Travis Good

Travis Good

Speaker. Maker. Writer. Traveler. Father. Husband.

MakerCon Co-Chair (MakerCon.com) Maker City San Diego Roundtable Member San Diego Maker Faire Producer (SDMakerFaire.org)

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Back in 2012 I wrote a piece on Shapeoko, Edward Ford, and his CNC community. At the time he was on the verge of bringing the first good quality, affordable CNC to market. Now in 2015 he’s releasing Shapeoko 3 and by all evidence his guiding principles haven’t changed. With the release of Shapeoko 3, he’s delivering […]

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X-Carve: Inventables Launches New Line of Workshop CNC Machines

X-Carve: Inventables Launches New Line of Workshop CNC Machines

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in 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, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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Inventables is known for the open-source, easily-modded Shapeoko 2 CNC machine. Today, they break ways with that brand as they launch their own machine, dubbed X-Carve, and with it bring a number of upgrades and new features to the DIY subtractive-manufacturing community. The Shapeoko line began with Edward Ford‘s $300 proof of concept CNC machine kit, funded […]

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Exclusive First Look: Inventables’ Sleek New “3D Carving” Machine Is the Designer’s Dream CNC Router

Exclusive First Look: Inventables’ Sleek New “3D Carving” Machine Is the Designer’s Dream CNC Router

Elizabeth Koprucki

By Elizabeth Koprucki

Elizabeth Koprucki

Elizabeth Koprucki is CNC Area Host at the Pumping Station: One hackerspace in Chicago, IL. She works as a design professional and maker educator, and loves to share her enthusiasm for digital fabrication with diverse audiences. You can read about her ongoing maker adventures at http://rampantcreative.wordpress.com.

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Inventables wants to put CNC milling on designers’ desktops, and they are releasing a stylish machine called Carvey to help make it happen.

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Inventables Opens Their Easel CNC Software to All Users

Inventables Opens Their Easel CNC Software to All Users

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in 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, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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Today at MakerCon, Inventables’ Zach Kaplan announced that the web-based CNC software Easel is moving out of beta testing and into full release.

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A Shapeoko for Every State

A Shapeoko for Every State

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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Inventables’ Zach Kaplan is on hand at MakerCon to announce a program to bring their Shapeoko CNC mill to maker communities in all 50 states in the US.

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Using Your CNC Mill Sucks a lot Less With Inventables’ New App

Using Your CNC Mill Sucks a lot Less With Inventables’ New App

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in 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, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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New web-based software lets you design in your browser and automates control of the Shapeoko CNC

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