The final tally of equipment, which included an industrial sewing machine and a plasma cutter, became the definitive inventory list for TechShop, a 15, 000 square-foot tinkerer Toyland.

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She owns a San Francisco sign and graphics company with her husband, but says she has trouble interfacing the industrial sewing machine or her vinyl silhouette cutter with her PC.

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Plugging the proposals into a spreadsheet, he started listing the tools needed to produce each one: A CNC milling machine for an updated, open-source letterpress printer, a laser cutter for a sensor warning pilots of nearby planes.

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