Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Inventables’ Zach Kaplan Launches Easel for All Users”.
Hi this is mike with make – and i am here at makercon, with zach kaplan of inventables, who just got off stage. Uh made a very exciting announcement about their uh cnc software package. Easel. Why don’t you tell everybody? What’S the latest with eazl sure, so today, on stage we announced that eazl is now free and open to the public, so you can get 3d carving in the browser. Just go to easel.com, that’s great! So um previous. I know that you, you launched easel at uh at south by southwest a few months back in march.
Um tell me about how the the the release of easel has gone over the over these past few months. Yeah it’s been super exciting uh. We did a slow release, so first we let. In about 10, we got about 4 000 people who signed up the day we launched, and then we let first in 10, then 100. Then a thousand uh. We let everybody on the waiting list in a few weeks ago and today it’s open to the public all right – and you did this staggered roll out as this was to make sure the system didn’t crash yeah. So we want like normally with software nobody gets hurt, but when you’re dealing with 3d carving, you click the button, things can happen, and so we tested on all our machines, but we hadn’t tested it on lots of machines. So we wanted to make sure that nobody got hurt before we just like said willy nilly go off, go for it great so and now um anyone uh that wants to they can jump into easel, easel.com and um, and and they can start using their their machines With a really simple and and elegant uh cnc software solution, i’m i’m a big fan of it. I love it uh. What other types of developments have happened with easel uh since uh, you premiered it at south by southwest yeah. So a lot of uh feature development.
We our engineers had direct contact with a lot of the users, and so we added things like precise positioning. We added things like so you can share. There’S a project library, there’s an open and easel button, so you can import from a software like inkscape or illustrator. Any svg file or you can open somebody else’s on the web just by clicking the button and remake it. So there’s a lot when we launched it, it was pretty basic functionality and over the last six months it’s really developed into a pretty capable package. All right and what’s this year, what do you, what are you showing off so uh? The demo i did on stage is i copy.
I copied the simple stamp project into my account and then i imported an svg and made a stamp and one of the cool features we added recently was the ability to reverse the letters. So if you do a stamp and you just print it out, normally it’ll stamp it backwards. So we added a reversing uh feature, and so then we uh did a little letterpress. So we got the eza logo and the make logo uh stamped onto some uh. Some books, that’s great, the um and and all the parts that uh that using these these stamps themselves. These are things that you guys supply through inventables.com, which makes the whole thing really pretty pretty smart good system yeah.
So we have about a thousand different materials uh in stock in the warehouse, so you can go online click and it ships same day. It’S great um, any any hints at what uh what people might be. Looking f uh towards inventables to see in the future. No hints, but there are going to be some announcements all right great well, we’ll keep our eyes peeled for it. I’M excited uh, great presentation, thanks for being here and uh. Congratulations on the on the launch. Thanks for having us. This is awesome. Thank you. Thanks, .