Topic(s): Engineering
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta) , Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
The founder of ShopBot tells how his company was an outgrowth of his passion for building wooden boats and that led him to create an affordable, capable CNC machine for the rest of us.
Ted Hall is founder and CEO of ShopBot Tools, developers and manufacturers of tools for digital fabrication (CNC tools). Ted is a neurobiologist by training and is Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He was led by his own backyard tinkering into producing robotic tools that are oriented for use by individuals and small shops. His focus has become digital fabrication technology and,via 100kGarages.com, the encouragement of new forms of production and distributed manufacturing.
