I had been watching their progress for a while. I’d love to get one but I have too much money tied up in equipment right now. I’ll take another look when a couple more of my devices start paying for themselves.
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Did you use one of our codes for your hundred off?
I jumped on this one early, earlier than I did the 
I think it pretty well finishes my maker space.
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I’m a Batch 1 pre-order as well.
Of course, I dont even have the space to use it at the moment. 
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that, of course, is the beauty of the thing.
i’ve been watching this since the beginning and desperately want one, but there are lots of other things to spend that money on atm.
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A hand held CNC… that’s innovation!
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Here’s the established thread about the Shaper Origin…
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Me too! I’m 12:09 on August 23. I learned not to wait; Glowforge on 10/17. I can’t wait for the end of October!
Yes, that is one of the reasons I went with it instead of a router that needs a permanent bed, but I still don’t have even the little workspace required. 
Got a bit of a log jam with a custom car project at the moment. All tools and tables are on casters. Even the car is on caster dollies so I can slide it around easily, but everything is still kinda “stuck”… LOL!!
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I would love to buy it, but I live in Norway, and it seems that it is not possible to order to a Norwegian address.
Ugh! with all of my research and KNOWING there is a referral code I somehow didn’t end up on that thread. I am going to see if they will let me add a referral post sale. Fingers crossed!
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That thing looks cool but my gut reaction is always, “that can’t work.” I’m really curious to see the real-world reports.
It is a really cool tool. Really unique in the class of routers and CNC machinery.
I used one of their pre-production models that they used for testing & debugging, and it was strangely like playing a video game.
The product itself has some really beautiful engineering to make it incredibly robust, and of course all the fringe use cases you can imagine have been thoroughly considered and solved for.
I think I’m going to make a single rowing shell with the combination of glowforge and shaper…
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I hear you but this thing has been in the works for years now and from everything, I can see they have it quite well worked out.
Like any smart tool if you try hard enough you will be able to make it mess up. You move the main router and I’m sure that if you go crazy with it you can still brake bits and ruin wood just like with everything else.
I still make bad mistakes with my handibot sometimes and embarrass myself with a broken cutter and trashed project.
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Totally fair. I broke a dumb tool the other day that was pretty darn foolproof (who breaks a pin vise?)…
So fresh caveat - in my 5min playtime cutting out a star, I was being pretty careful, but then was told to get reckless with my path-following. Lo and behold, when I ran into a knot in the material, I ended up pushing the bit outside the controllable zone and it happily retracted the bit for me. Then when I moved the tool back over the controllable zone, it gave me the go-ahead to start & plunge the spindle again.
That, I thought, was darn cool.
Humans will always be able to break things, but I think this tool has an interesting intention - which involves a user-friendliness and set of interactions approached from such a different direction than any other CNC tool.
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you may have even me beat on breaking the unbreakable. A pin vice? J/K everything breaks given the right circumstance.
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I am on the batch one pre-order too, I am really looking forward to getting it! End of October cannot come soon enough.
Between the Glowforge, PocketNC, 3d printer, and Shaper, I am looking forward to some pretty complex projects!
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pocket nc is not one I went with but I do have a 4th axis with the handibot so…
Sounds like we’ll both have a pretty well equipped maker space.
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Mark, I have a Handibot Adventure edition also, but I haven’t done very much with it…the Shapeoko 3 has gotten priority w/r to my learning curve. Just a matter of time before I get to it. Agree with you…with the 3D printers, cnc machines, and the Glowforge, there is no reason to join the local maker space since mine will be pretty complete.
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I threw in For a Maslow today.
I had looked at them earlier, and checked the projects status today. They apparently have completed their kickstarter campaign, and hope to have their first round of post campaign orders filled in Sept. They are then going to come out with a schedule for filling the rest of the orders.
If it takes that long, I may just build one myself. Getting the kit would be way simpler though.
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i’m looking forward to seeing what you do with it. i think this project has insane potential. one issue for me is that in their demo videos the cuts always look super rough and i’m hesitant because i while well know the importance of finish work i’m afraid i could just cut things out more quickly (taking into account edge finish).