Zach Kaplan's talk at MakerCon NYC
Our founder and CEO Zach Kaplan gave a talk recently at NYC MakerCon wherein he outlines the evolution of desktop fabrication and gives some idea of where this whole thing is going. The talk was...
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It's getting spoooky in the workshop- this ABS filament might be haunted!
Everyone likes to make stuff, but Halloween brings about a particular type of DIY craftsmanship that we love in the Inventables office. So we decided to make a compendium of everything in our store...
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Carvey: The 3D carving machine for the maker in all of us
On Tuesday October 21st at 8am CST Inventables launched a Kickstarter campaign for Carvey a new, remarkably easy to use, tabletop 3D carving machine for making ideas into real objects. I'm proud to say...
View ArticlePumpkin Carving with Easel and Shapeoko
Shapeoko 2 owner Winston Moy made an awesome video of how to use your Shapeoko to carve a pumpkin using Easel, our web-based CAD + CAM + machine control software. The key is to remove the wasteboard...
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We are really excited that there has been a ton of interest in carving soft metals with Carvey. We're going to do a series of videos demonstrating how Carvey performs with a number of different soft...
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Bonus Rewards for the Carvey Kickstarter
The speed we reached our goal was incredible and your energy was electric. We can’t thank you enough.Thanks to your ongoing support and for helping us make this happen, we want to give each Carvey...
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Weekend project inspiration
The weekend is finally here so it is time to get making! Here are a few awesome projects from the last couple weeks that you can open and mill directly from Easel. Have something awesome to show off?...
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Holiday ornament projects to make at home
In giddy anticipation of the impending holiday season, our own designer Alex Berger created a handful of fun projects to share. These simple ornaments can be cut on a Shapeoko or a laser cutter, which...
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Snowflake Generator
We used to love making paper snowflakes, folding a piece of paper into quarters and snipping little pieces out, then unfolding it into a radially repeating geometric shape.Then, our software engineer...
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DIY Gift box roundup!
We all would love to make every holiday gift from scratch, especially for family and loved ones. But there isn't always time, you may not have the right tools or materials or skills, and then all of a...
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A visit to Lane Tech Hight School's Innovation & Creation Lab
A little while back we helped high school Computer Science teach Jeff Solin spec out a maker lab for his school. Many months and lots of sweat later, the Innovation and Creation Lab is up and running...
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Our favorite projects of 2014
Now that's we've had a chance to recover from the holidays, the Inventables team put together a quick roundup of our favorite projects of 2014. What was your favorite project? Share it in the comments...
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A Better Way to Wire Your DC Power Supply?
The ProblemThe basic enclosed power supply is the workhorse of the DIY CNC world. It is used in most small scale 3D printers and CNC routers. Unfortunately they are not the easiest items to wire...
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Making stuff and rocking out with White Mystery!
We unexpectedly got to hang out with local rockers White Mystery at the Chicago Made booth at SxSW last year. They were curious about our machines and we really enjoyed their "acoustic" set in the...
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Power Supply Interface Follow Up
Thanks for all the feedback on the DC Power Supply Interface PCB we posted last week. We got enough signups on the product page to justify moving forward. We digested all the suggestions we received...
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TB6600 Stepper Driver Shield
Can your grbl based CNC setup control all this equipment (at the same time!)?This is what is in the picture.(4) Stepper motors, each on its own driver with up to 4.5amps of current and 40V. The Y axis...
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Customer Project Spotlight: Matthew White
We were tweeted this photo the other day from Indiana hackerspace The MakerHive:This is the kind of thing that gets the Inventables team really excited. It's a custom mount for the Rostock Max 3D...
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Say Hello to X-Carve
Today Inventables launched X-Carve, our next generation 3D Carving machine. It’s the start of a new chapter for us and we’re very excited.Our mission at Inventables is to bring out the maker in all of...
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X-Carve Shipping Update!
The transition to X-Carve has been a huge undertaking for everyone at Inventables, encompassing a multitude of projects and collaborations from every team. Engineering, software development,...
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Meet the Inventables Customer Success team!
What Is Customer Success?If you’ve contacted a company with a customer service issue in recent years you have likely been forced to deal strictly with automated, self service menus or impersonal...
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