Gadgetory

after doing several DIY projects on my own I ran into the problem all the time of making measurement errors and then cutting errors and the DIY I realized I wasn't the only one having this problem everybody makes the wrong cuts we developed auto set to eliminate workflow error in construction using auto set can be learned in less than five minutes first you make your measurement Auto set reads your measurement and shows you which way to adjust next you adjust the stop to a rough setting and finally Auto set makes a precision adjustment for the perfect cut for professional builders and remodelers Auto set impacts their bottom line by vastly improving their productivity for DIY consumers Auto set affords the ability to work with greater accuracy and precision than they would otherwise be capable of my name is cat and I'm a woodworker in Pittsburgh I'm beta testing Auto sense you CNC router equipment and I also use laser cutters so precision is really important to me I don't want a lot of waste when I'm making something well you're supposed to measure twice and cut once but in my case it's more like measure ten times because I don't want to waste my material if I can get it right the first time that cuts down on a lot of extra time for me I take a measurement with the Bluetooth Etape and then it sends it directly to Auto set for me I love Auto set it saves me a ton of time and anxiety about making my cuts I'm much faster I know that it's accurate before I even get started well installing building material you probably know the motto is measure twice cut once really it's more like measure four or five times a couple times in the place where you're installing the material and then again a couple of times when you're at the saw cutting the material each measurement is an opportunity for making a costly mistake or gets me up in the morning is that I want to make a difference I'm Adam Staley with Adam Corp I'm a remodeling contractor in the city of Pittsburgh I've been doing remodeling for 20 years the most part how to get the faster you get the project done perfect cuts and having a wall that's straight that's what sets you apart from the other guys well the smartphone is an appendage to any of this generation that is coming up and working today it's just part of who they are it's more likely that they would have a smartphone on them than the tools that they need to work that day the learning curve on artists the ease of use it's as simple as it gets basically if you can read a left there or a right arrow when they all line up that's your measurement go ahead and cut how much easier can it get if the artist that was on my job site every day I know it maximized my efficiency we've entered the age of personal manufacturing but when it comes to making durable things in your own shop there's still no easy way to cut hard materials as makers and engineers we need to work with all materials so we've built a machine that could the first desktop water jet way he works by combining abrasive particles with a high-pressure water stream the mixture exits the nozzle and cut through the workpiece it's great for any workshop because every material it's compact and contains and it's digital so you can make precise cuts that are impossible to make any other way as an industrial designer I've used a variety of desktop application tools but they tend to be very limited by the durability of the materials you can use on those machines but it's desktop water jets we can go from design the component to fitting that component and testing within a couple of hours that's an incredibly powerful tool as a jeweler and an artist with the work I make I spend a lot of time hand cutting so right now I'm selling pieces sort of a almost limited edition because I can't physically output them not because I want to be making in a limited edition laser would allow me to not only make a lot more but also to lower the price point so they'd be available to a broader audience I think you know people tend to have their ideas constrained by their tools and the things they're capable of working with and having a water jet cutter which has the ability to cut a broader range of materials hard material like steel and glass will be enabling and make them think in different ways and have them build different things they couldn't build before the future of manufacturing is in custom local fabrication people will be able to make things in their own workshop that they can use every single day and will act like fabricating models and prototypes is a huge part of what I do but I'm using a laser cutter a TNT router or a 3d printer for all of the together but of all the methods and tools that I use just one I've relied on heavily over to you and that expansion forming it's my so-called secret sauce when it comes to making three dimensional transient part the problem is go back and formers aren't exactly accessible they're massive back to great equipment that cost an arm and leg and there aren't really any proper desktop versions with them either this is spackle for the world's first digital desktop vacuform now everyone can shape and form plastic like a seasoned pro with vacuform smart efficient and easy to use features such as a exclusively design high performance hybrid vacuum system that delivers extremely detailed shapes and parts a computer-controlled heater and thermal probe the monitors of plastics temperature in real time and a built-in library of heating profiles for various materials so you're sure to get perfect results part after part after part just alike the correct profile from the menu press Start and wait for the vacuum to switch on once it's gone all you have to do is lower the handle bar and begin vacuforming with a vacuform you get a compact professional-grade vacuum former without the hefty price tag allowing you to finally get that bow rolling on that business idea of yours or simply make things for your own personal enjoyment whatever those things might be whether it's one of designer toys cause some type of thing for bespoke gadgets or one-of-a-kind art pieces Harvey is a new kind of 3d machine making real objects out of real material we call it a 3d carpet everyone has a chiller idea we've all same things thought I can make that better or higher quality or I could just make it myself we want you to be able to make it that's what created carbon we want you to be able to go in ideas in its product in under five minutes so we broke it down into three easy steps first make your design design software can be hard to use so we made easel it's easy to use and it runs in your browser the next step is to choose your material with plastic soft metals like aluminum even circuit board pick whatever inspires the last step is no matter what kind of maker you are you click car being able to design in a program and have that same program connected to the machine just beyond amazing your steps involved has been cut down to mere nothing not now the idea it isn't focus we want it to be as beautiful as it is functional to reach out the Scott Wilson is seamless designers at minimum people need to be able to jump in and use it and quits thinking about the tool so much and think about what they're trying to do today we finally have a prototype that we love it's beautiful it's quiet its clean and it's just neatly on a desktop but most importantly works great we started this project project he had two goals the first was to make a machine it's quieter cleaner and far easier to use and we've done that the second was to bring the machine to the world and an affordable price and that's what I'm to kick-start with your help we can order materials and components of scale and start the manufacturing process so here's the thing your support for Carvey market is art but something really special it's a new kind of industrial revolution for people like me and you can dream design and manufacture the products that we've all met what's your idea what do you want to make join us and make your mark industrial robots are too expensive and hard to use however they could save you time at home help you do creative work or learn new technologies so why keep these benefits away from you meet near yo won the first accessible six access robotic arm near you one is a low-cost and user-friendly robot made out of 3d printing and open-source technologies it was created so everyone can use it for makers near you one can help you learn robotics and be your perfect coworker it can easily pick and place many kinds of objects for example to automate a 3d printer do anything your imagination can create just by easily changing the end-effector tool with Nerio one reproduce industrial use cases such as drilling or drawing on any surface with any orientation miryo one is great for robotics education for students to learn but also for children they can get to know more about new technologies and get some programming basics so much fun involved near yo one will also save you some time and daily light so you can relax and do the things that matter the most controlling near you'll one is so easy you can teach the robot what you wanted to do just by moving it with your hands want to use a gamepad here you go you can use the mobile and web applications to have more control over the robot and control it from a remote place near you one will be connected to the Internet oh and it means you can also get free software upgrades and you can share programs with your family friends and other people around the world we specially thought about makers and developers by making most of our code open-source STL files for 3d printing will also be released you will be able to program directly on the robot with many api's and the source code it's a great way to learn robotics and do useful stuff with Arduino Raspberry Pi and robot operating system