{"id":42691,"date":"2013-07-06T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=42691"},"modified":"2013-07-06T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T19:25:43","slug":"a-power-tool-for-the-age-of-digital-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/digital-manufacturing\/a-power-tool-for-the-age-of-digital-fabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"A power tool for the age of digital fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smarter than the average tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1320575205\/handibottm-a-smart-digital-power-tool\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As wonderful as CNC milling machines are, they aren&#8217;t exactly portable. Material has to transported to and from the location of the machine, and it has to fit within the work area. The Handibot is small enough to bring with you to a work site, and it can be placed wherever it&#8217;s needed on material of almost any size.<\/p>\n<p>The Handibot is something between a traditional power tool and a CNC mill. It&#8217;s a power tool made smarter with a lot of help from apps and digital fabrication techniques. Learn more about it and get one for yourself on the (already) fully-funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1320575205\/handibottm-a-smart-digital-power-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">kickstarter campaign<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ad3cb8dad7fa72b34ccce3fd438479d1_large.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42690\" title=\"ad3cb8dad7fa72b34ccce3fd438479d1_large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ad3cb8dad7fa72b34ccce3fd438479d1_large.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ad3cb8dad7fa72b34ccce3fd438479d1_large.png 700w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ad3cb8dad7fa72b34ccce3fd438479d1_large-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a461fffc7a79128317742ebe12026e25_large.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42689\" title=\"a461fffc7a79128317742ebe12026e25_large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a461fffc7a79128317742ebe12026e25_large.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a461fffc7a79128317742ebe12026e25_large.png 700w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/a461fffc7a79128317742ebe12026e25_large-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1b18ea978b4055ae1203d550fb958492_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42688\" title=\"1b18ea978b4055ae1203d550fb958492_large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1b18ea978b4055ae1203d550fb958492_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1b18ea978b4055ae1203d550fb958492_large.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1b18ea978b4055ae1203d550fb958492_large-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/technology\/handibot-smartphone-controlled-portable-cnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">designboom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smarter than the average tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As wonderful as CNC milling machines are, they aren&#8217;t exactly portable. Material has to transported to and from the location of the machine, and it has to fit within the work area. The Handibot is small enough to bring with you to a work site, and it can be placed wherever it&#8217;s needed on material of almost any size.<\/p>\n<p>The Handibot is something between a traditional power tool and a CNC mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,5796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-manufacturing","category-design-ideas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A power tool for the age of digital fabrication<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/digital-manufacturing\/a-power-tool-for-the-age-of-digital-fabrication\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A power tool for the age of digital fabrication\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Smarter than the average tool.  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