Last week, we had a visit from the Milwaukee Maker Space, which is just a short drive down the Interstate. And the week before, folks from a Madison, WI makerspace, known as The Bodgery, joined us for a product demo.

Mike Dubno has been a maker since before making was a thing. “I’ve been involved in the maker movement before there was one, but in a different way than a machinist or something like that,” he explains.

The Maker community has been coming into its own in the last five years. With the help of inexpensive hardware, software, and tools, more at-home engineers and inventors have the ability to access know-how that used to be relegated to major corporations.

We wanted to carve a pumpkin with one of the PCNC 1100s in our showroom to celebrate Halloween. After some debate with our machinists and realizing the unwanted mess that pumpkin chunks mixed with aluminum and steel chips would create (especially in our showroom), we decided to step away from the idea. Our local makerspace, Sector 67, wasn’t worried about the mess, so they used their PCNC 1100 to do just that. Happy Halloween!

We welcomed our new PCNC 440 into the world last week, and then immediately hit the road to get to World Maker Faire in New York.

Today, Tormach welcomes a new member to the personal CNC family, the PCNC 440. As we strive to grow Tormach’s culture of enabling ideas, the PCNC 440 was a natural next step.