Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “4 and 5 Axis Handibot”.
Hi dc denison here at makercon and i’m with ted hall of shopbot tools, inc and uh shopbot has some really great products. Handy bot was launched at a at a maker event a year ago and of course shopbot is the standard in maker spaces all over the world, but today, ted you’ve got something kind of special. That’S getting a lot of attention. Uh here for the conference.
Well, we brought the handybot back again this year because uh when we introduced it, the idea was to create a whole new format for doing subtractive, digital fab for doing cnc, and we’ve spent a year working with the community base of handy botters using the tool and Have developed new ways to use it, and one of the most interesting things is what we’re showing today, which is using the handy bot in conjunction with a fourth rotary axis, to turn things, and even more interestingly, as part of a five axis tool for machining objects. Totally in the round, they’re both accessories for the handy bot, but they really extend the sort of versatility and new format that we’ve hoped to introduce with the tool. The thing that struck me when i saw it was it looked like gee. This can do a lot of the things that 3d printing can 3d printers can do, but it’s with subtractive technology and it’s kind of bringing it into a cnc world sure there’s a lot of a lot of similarity between additive and subtractive digital fab additive. We think of as 3d printing subtractive as a cnc tool and the interesting thing about both the rotary tool and the five axis tool is. It gives the cutter a lot more access to the material, that’s being machined, so that it can create the kind of complexity that approaches what you see with 3d printing yeah, very cool. Well, let everybody know where they can see this, either online or elsewhere. The easiest place to see it is at our handybot headquarters, which is handybot.com h-a-n-d-i-b-o-t dot com, all right great! Well, thanks ted! Thank you good talking to you. .