Philadelphia,PA Camp Shopbot !!!

[billp]

Philadelphia, PA Camp Shopbot !!!
On Sat. April 27th We will hold our first Camp Shopbot in Philadelphia, PA. We're going to be located at
NextFab Studio-(www.nextfabstudio.com (http://www.nextfabstudio.com))
NextFab Studio 2025 Washington Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19146
(215) 921-3649
And if you live anywhere in this area you should know about NextFab and their facilities. They have ALL the good toys available for use so you don't have to buy your OWN CNC waterjet, etc. and figure out where to put it...
Camp hours will be;
8-9 Coffee/etc
9-Noon - AM sessions
Noon-1 Lunch
1-4 PM sessions.
There is NO charge to attend this Camp, and details will follow in the next few weeks, but we ask that you drop us a note when you decide that you are going to attend. It always helps us, and our hosts, know how many people to prepare for.
You can also ask any specific questions,sign on to do a presentation about some process 'Bot related etc., by contacting - campshopbot@gmail.com

[David White]

Count me + 1 in
Thanks
Dave

[billp]

David,
You're in...

[kurt_rose]

YEA!!!! Finally something close!:D I'll be there also Bill.

[billp]

Good, I'll add your name to the list right now.

[billp]

A few other events going on in the area leading up to our Camp-
http://www.philasciencefestival.org/ & http://2012.phillytechweek.com/

[hknisely]

count me in Harry Knisely and my daughter Kelly

[Robert Rickard]

I'll come down from Hoboken. I'm a fairly new shopbot owner and looking forward to my first Camp Shopbot. I'm an artist and primarily cut aluminum.

[billp]

Robert,
Thanks for the RSVP ! We'll see you there...

[jstrasser]

What are the topics for the morning and afternoon sessions?

[billp]

So far the requests have been for something on 3D carving/coatings, vacuum setups, and sign making. Still time for some other sessions to be scheduled. Otherwise we'll see what people want to get into while we're there.
NO specific time slots designated for the sessions but again we can move things around if some people will only be there AM or PM , etc. It will be a sizable group ( 50+) so I'm sure there won't be any shortage of questions/info...
To ALL attending please try to bring along something for the Show and Tell session....

[jstrasser]

I'd love to see the rotary indexer in action

[billp]

J,
I don't believe they have one on their machine at NextFab. But as anyone who has used one can tell you, they aren't really "action packed" when doing their thing, and cutting a rotary file CAN be time consuming.
We can get into the rotary process at the Camp and show everyone how people have been achieving great results with both stock, and home brewed indexers...There will be a few people on hand with considerable experience in using the indexer so you'll have some brains to pick as well...

[ludlow6]

I would love to attend.

Jim

[billp]

Jim,
We'll see you there then...!

[Brady Watson]

I'm planning on attending on Saturday. It would be good to put some names with faces.

Bring your questions...I'll see if I can answer them for you, or at least steer you in the right direction ;)

-B

[twelchPTM]

I. Know its late but ill be up for another 3 or 4 hours. If anyone wants to car pool shoot me am email twelch82.tw at gmail dot com. Parking is rough in that part of philly

[billp]

We had a good crowd, and a great day at NextFab ! MANY thanks to Evan Malone their founder, Itsuki Ogihara their community development specialist who invited us, John Haggerty who now teaches Shopbot classes at NextFab, and Brady Watson for jumping in and doing some of the presentations.
I've posted the Blog and pix- http://www.shopbotblog.com/index.php/2013/04/2013-philadelphia-camp-shopbot/

[mezalick]

Greetings,
As a daily visitor to this forum but almost never posting because I have a CAMaster CNC machine I wanted to thank Bill for the warm welcome to yesterdays ShopBot camp in Philly.
It was a well organized affair with important topics cleanly presented.
Meeting people with CNC interests is always refreshing and this Camp allowed for that social interaction.
If you have the opportunity to attend a Camp, please take the time to do so, you won't be disappointed.
Also I must add how impressed I was with the location, NextFab.
Another well run organization with altruistic intentions.
Again, my that’s to Bill, Brady, Randy and John.
Michael