A month or so before one of the early Maker Faires…maybe the first Austin Faire in 2008?..I got an email from the MAKE…
Boats are in my heart, and along with using my ShopBot to cut bits and pieces for full sized boats I occasionally made little boats as…
Once the word got around that I was willing to work on projects for teachers, I started to get a lot of requests. I had to turn down…
About the same time as I was working on the rubber band racers, I was asked by another teacher at the school if I could…
If you were a hands-on kind of person, the early 2000’s were a frustrating time for education. The shop classes that I remember when…
Building without hardware…counting on precise friction fits…is to some the holy grail of…
We’ve all heard that you can’t put a square peg in a round hole, but not many of us have actually had a need to try…
When I started out I just used my new ShopBot to cut boat parts and boat related things. Boats were what I…
A lot of the decisions that go into designing everyday stuff involve some variation of “How do I stick things together?”…
The Quicklap canoe is built using a technique called Lapstrake construction. Each plank overlaps the one below it, making a…
When Ted Hall was ready to begin manufacturing ShopBots, he offered me a deal. If I would…