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The Edge
by Bantam Tools
A podcast about the designers, engineers and businesses exploring the frontier of digital fabrication. The Edge is produced by Bantam Tools, makers of desktop CNC machines with professional reliability and precision at an affordable price.
Episodes
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S3E5 – Dom Riccobene: Turning Data Into Sculpture / Vince Ramirez: Fast and Furious
In this season’s final episode of The Edge, Bre and Zach speak with two of Bantam Tools’ remote residents, Dom Riccobene and Vince Ramirez. Our residents are artists, engineers, and educators, some of whom regularly use CNC machines in their daily work while others are new to CNC all together. In...
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S3E4 — 3D Fab Light: A Deep Dive Into Industrial Laser Cutters
~Plus a visit to the SF Drone School and a look at the X-Class Drone Racing League~ In this episode, we learn about the world of industrial metal laser cutters with the 3D Fab Light team. What initially started as a project at Otherlab to make bicycle frame fabrication easier eventually spun out...
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S3E3 — Saul Griffith: Otherlab, Engineering for Good & the Future of Private Research Labs
Plus Ashley Swartz discusses engineering soft robots at Roam Robotics In this third episode of The Edge podcast, we sit down with engineer, inventor, and founder of Otherlab Saul Griffith to learn more about the research and ethos driving this independent, San Francisco-based R&D lab. Otherlab is...
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S3E2 — Angelo Juras: Autodesk & the Past, Present, and Future of CNC Machining
Plus Bantam Tools’ Peter Riley on learning CNC In this second episode of season three, Bre and Zach sit down with master machinist Angelo Juras at the Autodesk Pier 9 facility in San Francisco. Angelo has been a machinist since the 80s, when he got his start on NC punched-tape-style milling...
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S3E1 – Carly Mick: Kestrel Materials, Soft Goods and Textiles Manufacturing
~Plus Gerard Rubio on Kniterate, the desktop CNC knitting machine Welcome to Season 3 of The Edge podcast. In this first episode, Bre and Zach dive into the world of soft goods and textiles manufacturing with expert Carly Mick. Carly is the senior manufacturing manager for Kestrel Materials, a...
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S2E8 – Alberto Savoia: Lessons in Prototyping & “Pretotyping”
Plus Scott Miller from Dragon Innovation shares tips for manufacturing at scale In this last episode of Season two, we talk all about prototyping and “pretotyping.” Our guest, Alberto Savoia, is a mathematician and engineer, who among many things led the initial development of Google’s Ad Words....
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S2E7 - Nadya Peek: Making Modular & Accessible Machines
~Plus Ryan Luke Johns on collaborating with robots~ On today’s episode, we sit down with Nadya Peek, a professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, where Nadya runs an interesting lab called Machine Agency. Her work focuses on unconventional...
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S2E6 - Dan Shapiro: Glowforge, Lasercutters & Why We Make
This week we speak with Dan Shapiro, the cofounder and CEO of Glowforge. You probably recall the 2015 launch of this desktop laser cutter that took the digital fabrication world by storm. What’s most unique about Glowforge, however, isn’t the sleek industrial design, but the diverse community...
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S2E5 - Mohit Bhoite: Giving Life to Electronics
~Plus Andrew Kleindolph on teaching digital fabrication in high school~ This week we speak with Mohite Bhoite. By day, Mohit is a senior electrical engineer at the IoT startup Particle, but come nights and weekends, Mohite is a full-time sculptor. Though the technique he uses, called freeforming…
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S2E4 - Greg Wolos: Design Thinking
~Plus Ben Light gives us a tour of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program In this episode we sit down with industrial designer and engineer, Greg Wolos, to speak about design thinking. Greg is the former design director at IDEO – the international design and consulting firm – and today runs...
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S2E3 – Will Langford: Machines That Make Machines
~Plus Jake Reed on making modular and reconfigurable CNC machines~ In this episode, we speak with Will Langford, an engineer and researcher at the Center for Bits and Atoms. CBA – a part of MIT — is an interdisciplinary initiative exploring the boundary between computer science and physical...
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S2E2 – Aaron Panone: Leaving Your Mark
~Plus luthier Michael King on using 100-year-old wood to build custom guitars In this episode, Bre and Zach visit with Aaron Panone in his studio in Boston, Massachusetts. Aaron is a self-producing designer and engineer who focuses on making acetate eyewear and custom bicycle components. In one…
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S2E1 – Ian Schon: For the Love of Craft
~Plus Nick Manousos on the state of watchmaking~ In this episode, we sit down with mechanical engineer and designer turned self-taught machinist and watchmaker, Ian Schon. Ian is in love with watches and the craft of horology. He also makes and sells a beautiful collection of pens, but really for...
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S1E8 – Bre Pettis: Utopia, Hackerspaces & the Early Days of MakerBot
In this last episode of Season One, Bre Pettis, co-host of The Edge, talks about the early days of MakerBot. As co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot, Bre played a huge role in popularizing 3D printing and making it accessible to students, educators, and makers. What many people don’t know,...
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S1E7 – Tiffany Tseng: Designing Tools & Interfaces For Making
~Plus Matt Lenox on tips for milling topographic maps~ In this episode, we speak with Tiffany Tseng, a mechanical engineer turned UX/UI designer who, among many things, worked on the Autodesk update to EAGLE, and its integration with Fusion 360. As fabrication tools make their way from the…
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S1E6 - Wazer: What Does "Desktop" Fabrication Actually Mean?
~Plus Ed Kramer on running a CNC farm at home in Texas~ The desktop machine category has expanded to include industrial machinery that’s sometimes hard to imagine actually putting on a desk. One recent addition is Wazer, a desktop waterjet cutter. Bre and Zach headed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to...
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S1E5 - Liz Corbin: Expanding Our Materials Library
~Plus James Thompson on working with Fordite, aka Detroit Agate~ It’s not every day that you meet a materials scientist. These people work in a field that’s seemingly so complex as to be inaccessible to most of us, but Liz Corbin is working to challenge this assumption. Liz has a doctorate in...
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S1E4 - Breakfast: Break It Till You Make It
~ Plus Stefania Druga on MIT's class "How to Make Almost Anything" ~ You’ve probably found yourself walking along an airport causeway or another public space and have seen a wall that once may have been covered in a billboard now playing host to an interactive array of glowing LEDs that change...
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S1E3 - Ben Redwood: 3D Hubs & Automated Manufacturing
~Plus Jordan Husney on working with GE and running a 3D Hub~ If you owned a 3D printer back in 2013, you probably remember hearing about 3D Hubs for the first time. Desktop 3D printing was still in its early days, and a community of people were coming together on their site to share knowledge and...
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S1E2 - John Saunders: An Education in CNC
~Plus Devin Cooper on making music with stepper motors~ In this episode, we speak with John Saunders about how he initially got into machining and what the current landscape looks like for educating the next generation. He’s the host of the popular CNC YouTube channel NYCCNC and owner and founder...
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S1E1 - CW&T: Keeping Production Close to Home
Plus Josh Levine on low-power electronics In this episode, we speak with Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of CW&T about what it means to keep production close to home. Despite the growing service model offerings like Shapeways, 3D Hubs, or Plethora, Che-Wei and Taylor continue to build out their...
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S1E0 Welcome!
Bre and Zach kick off the show and give you a quick overview of what to expect in season one!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about the designers, engineers and businesses exploring the frontier of digital fabrication. The Edge is produced by Bantam Tools, makers of desktop CNC machines with professional reliability and precision at an affordable price.
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