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Shapeoko 2 Upgraded Waste board
This is the new upgraded waste board for the Shapeoko 2. It adds a few features over the stock waste board.One piece design: This makes it a little stiffer.Threaded Inserts: (36) M5 threaded inserts...
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Shapeoko 2 Upgrades
Once we started shipping the Shapeoko 2 machines, we immediately started working on some upgrades and accessories. Wherever possible these items are open source and the files are provided on the...
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Inventables at SxSW Create
Inventables will be at SxSW Create Friday March 7th through Sunday March 9th in Austin. This FREE and open-to-the-public event kicks off at 11:00 am. If you will be in Austin you can catch an...
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Circuit board milling on the Shapeoko 2
I've been working on using the Shapeoko 2 to mill circuit boards and I thought I'd share my experiences with everyone since we get a lot of questions on the subject.Short answer: it totally works and...
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V Carving Colored HDPE
I did a quick project to demonstrate some of our new products. As soon as I saw the green on white two color HDPE I thought of the Starbucks logo. I thought a nice, deep 60° V Carving of this would...
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Come see us at SxSW!
The Inventables team is going on the road starting this week, headed down to the South by Southwest Interactive festival.We're doing a number of free events in addition to the ones specifically for...
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TIME: Inventables Launches Easel, a Free Web App for Designing Real-World...
Harry McCracken is an editor at large at TIME. He writes about personal technology for the magazine. I caught up with him at SxSW 2014. He’s been a gadget nerd since the late 1970s and is the...
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Make Magazine: Using Your CNC Mill Sucks a lot Less With Inventables’ New App
We got to hang out a bit with Mike Senese, executive editor at Make Magazine while we were down in Austin for SXSW.Mike is a well-traveled Maker versed in all sorts of digital fabrication, DIY drones,...
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Pando Daily: Inventables wants its new Easel software to help making become...
Prior to heading down to South by Southwest, we got to discuss Easel with James Robinson of Pando Daily. If you follow his twitter feed you know that James is the kind of journalist who gets really...
View ArticleInventables Announces the Release of Shapeoko 3!
The Shapeoko legacy continues with this newest update to the world's fastest-selling desktop milling machine. Inspired by handheld 3D Printing stylii like the 3Doodler, we've stripped down the Shapeoko...
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Easel Development Update
Hi, I'm Paul Kaplan, software engineer on the Easel team here at Inventables. The dev team has been thrilled to see the excitement about Easel, and we wanted to let everyone know how we'll be rolling...
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The Inventables team, all in one place!
We had a rare occurrence this week of nearly every single Inventables employee being in the Chicago office at the same time. (Sorry Joanne, we'll have to photoshop you in!)Here's a group photo we took...
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Kate Sullivan of CBS News features Inventables on the "Your Chicago" Segment
Kate Sullivan is co-anchor of CBS 2 Chicago News at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. with Rob Johnson. Kate, who has won several awards – including an Emmy Award and the Associated Press First Place Award for...
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Makerbot Replicator 5th Generation
We just got in some of the new Makerbot Replicator 5th Gens, and they're looking good!Big improvements over the last model include:Integrated camera so you can monitor/record your printsBigger, color...
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Upgrading your Shapeoko 2 with NEMA 23 motors
A lot of people ask us about upgrading their Shapeoko 2 to use NEMA 23 motors on the X and Y axes. To make that process a little easier for everyone, we decided to offer up a project that includes all...
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You spin me right round baby!
We had a little fun with the new Knob with Crank for NEMA 17 and 23 stepper motors. For the record, you can use one stepper motor to generate enough power to turn another one, but the efficiency of...
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Hello World! Notes on using TinyG with Shapeoko
Alden Hart of synthetos, creator of the grblShield and tinyG motor controllers, took some time to write about using tinyG with Shapeoko. We followed his advice and hooked up one ourselves, and I have...
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Chicago North Side Maker Faire
The world-renowned Inventables street team was on hand at the Chicago North Side Mini Maker Faire today, and let me tell you, there was nothing mini about it!We were introducing makers of all sizes to...
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We are donating a 3D Carving Machine to Every State in the US!
San Mateo, CA – May 12, 2014– Inventables, Inc. today announced it will give away 50 3D carving machines to publicly-accessible spaces in each of the United States. The announcement was made at...
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The DC Spindles Have Arrived!
We have been using these DC spindles internally for quite a while. We absolutely love them and everyone who sees and/or hears them, loves them too. The first thing to love is the sound level. They...
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