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We proud (and totally jazzed) to be participating in this year's Maker Faire NYC!

We love NYC. And we love Maker Faire. And we really love giant stainless steel globes from the future-past.

How could this not be awesome? Maker Faire NYC is being held in Flushing Meadows, which is where the big world's faire in the 60's was held. There are still some relics left behind, all amazing in their own way.

We'll be giving a talk on going pro as a Maker. It's a revamped, hot-rodded, redone version of the talk we gave at Maker Faire in San Mateo. See you NYC!

Our newly designed cord management leg is cool looking and oh so functional!
Made of a black lacquered engineered wood interior and anodized aluminum sides.

The channels on the inside of the leg allow for cords to flow through from the floor to the underside of the table, unseen.

These legs & tables were designed by us & fabricated in our in house shop. Frank's spindle upgrade has made making things out of aluminum a breeze. A loud, messy, sharp breeze.

The result we think is a sleek sexy but practical leg for a wonderful table!

Recently we were brought in by Bookrenter.com to help set up and brand their office interior. We were excited when we saw their mascot is a cartoon "Tiki" man with text books on his spear!

We proceeded to make them a Tiki reception desk, with books on spears of course...

The reception desk is a typical two-level design, with a hardwood bar top surface, with thatch and bamboo detailing. The desk is complete with enormous bamboo foot rail and natural rope lashing!

For individual desks in this office, we helped Bookrenter.com keep an open office configuration, by creating desks that have these cool daisy-chaining power units in the underside. This allows the desks to be in free form rows up to 8 desks away from a wall mounted power source. You can even 'hot swap' them from place to place!

The desks have a nice ergonomic curve to them, adjustable sit/stand height legs, cord management holes on the top, and cord management trays underneath.

To keep with the Tiki theme, we also created 'tiki' rolling white / pin-up boards.

The rolling white boards preform double duty as privacy and sound barriers in the open floor plan. This works great with the flexible power desks in that they can reorganize their teams quickly at will.

Vinyl decals decorate all the interior windows, carrying the fun Tiki theme throughout the office. It also adds more privacy and division to the windowed meeting rooms and offices.

For a pair of young boys that will grow to love and enjoy this room.
Two desks, and two shelves. Design direction given by the boys, ages 5 and 9, our toughest clients yet! ;-).

With shelves to fit into the sloped ceiling of the room.

The desks have cord management holes and built in pencil trays.

The large drawers are made of a stacked rib construction, for extra durability.

With lots of storage room inside.

And, most importantly, there is a secret compartment behind each drawer.

That is, of course, the most important part of any kid's room!

The wonderful Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture series is one of the standard books on Revit. Highly recommended. Put together by this crew of knowledgeable folks, it's currently available from Amazon and soon as a downloadable version.

In additional to all the BIM basics, there are extra chapters on all sorts of great work being done via Revit. The one on Revit in the movie industry for set design is stunning! We got to help out on this one too, in that we wrote the extra chapter on BIM-to-CNC fabrication.

So go and grab your copy today!

We're proud to announce that Jeffrey (finally) got his paper from the state. While I passed my final Oral Exams a while ago, the paperwork took a bit (as always).

So say hello to Architect Number 32623 (a palindrome! Awesome!).

We're giving a repeat of our Maker Faire small business talk "Turning Pro: Becoming a Professional Maker" at The Remake Lounge tonight as part of the monthly SF:Make meetup.

The talk was a hit at Maker Faire, for it's all about basic business lessons we've learned from the perspective of a professional Maker.

Come check it out, and hope to see you tonight!

You are in luck! We have some unwanted items from moving, and from some old projects. Please take them! First off, the ladder. This is a 10ft 2in tall ladder on a nice slant with knock in pin construction on the sides. The decorative railing is beautiful and functional. The ladder is 27in wide with 8" deep steps, making it very safe to climb up and down. Originally made to be connected to a rolling track at the top, but can easily be modified for what ever you want to use it for. Made of certified sustainably harvested Birch with water based black dye and durable laquer finish Cash sales only. Local pick up only. $100 _______ Shelves! These shelves are great for a peaked roof, or under the stairs, or just to look cool and an angle. Use them both side by side to create interesting dynamics. Shelves are 3ft 8 1/4in wide x 4ft 1in tall x 10in deep Made of certified sustainably harvested Maple with a natural oil finish Cash sales only Local pick up only. $50 each or $80 for both _______ Solid wood door. 94 inches tall x 3ft wide Some minor scratches that can be sanded out. Comes with door knob assembly and hinges attached. Cash sales only. Local pick up only. $40 Please email to schedule a time to come get em!

Please join us for a night of project sharing, summertime story swapping, and some CNC demonstrations!

It's time for our regular 2nd-Thursday-of-the-month open house / project salon / OMGBBQWTF called EatFoodTalkShop! We're going to get these going again from their brief hiatus due to moving. So count on a monthly show-and-tell for Makers! Bring a project, or a story, or just curiosity and questions.

Please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off our recently finished projects for Wikipedia and Bookrenter. Frank will strut his stuff as well with a few demos.

We'll have some food and drink, you bring some more and your friends! Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Thursday, July 8th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

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Hope to see you there!

Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

We're giving a repeat of our Maker Faire small business talk "Turning Pro: Becoming a Professional Maker" at Tech Liminal (an Oakland technology salon) tonight as part of the SF:Make meetup.

The talk was a hit at Maker Faire, for it's all about basic business lessons we've learned from the perspective of a professional Maker.

We'll be giving it again later this month in San Francisco as well.

Come check it out, and hope to see you tonight!