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ShapeMeasure hopes to alleviate that pain with a device that automatically measures a space and a robotic mill that cuts the required lumber
precisely to size, shortening and easing the process by huge amounts.Founder Ben Blumer, who was exposed to the art of building and repair
recruited a former general contractor friend and applied to HAX, which soon shipped them off to Shenzhen to pursue their idea.The main
So although you know each stair is about 35 inches wide, it might be 35 and 3/64 inches, while the next one could be 34 and 61/64
Likewise, the angles might be ever so slightly off the 90 degrees or whatever they theoretically should be
Painstakingly measuring every single stair and manually cutting wood to those many slightly different dimensions is extremely time-consuming
The tool ShapeMeasure built makes it literally a push-button affair.The device they settled on is essentially a super-precise lidar that
This gives the precise dimensions and attachment angles of the area around it, in the first intended use case a stair
contradicts my headline, but if you think about the cutting as an automated process rather than something a person has to do, mine makes
We wanted a product that looked and felt like a tool
Of course, the contractor still has to bring them to the location and attach them by whatever means they see fit, but what was once a
process with perhaps hundreds of steps has been simplified by an order of magnitude.The machine is similar to other lumber-cutting devices,
To cut flooring on a machine like that involves setting up jigs, clamping and reclamping each board, and generating custom gcode for each
They can be several times more costly and difficult to employ
the very least extremely time-consuming to attempt manually.Examples of complex cuts made by the ShapeMeasure machine.The result is that the
installation process from start to finish is about four times faster, they determined
which the installer uses glue and other parts
easily anywhere in the country on short notice
Blumer built the prototype with his own money and they pulled in a bit from HAX and then a small pre-seed round to get things started.With
every dollar in an estimate.
