Motivation: Brubeck, and our beta testing program, proved instrumental in showing us not only how Origin might be used by customers, but what was needed to produce a professional-grade power tool. Against the advice of some of our more anxious investors, we decided to pursue another ground-up redesign, addressing what we saw as the key issues with Brubeck. The timetable for the Coltrane prototype was ambitiously set at just 9 months, aligning with our public presale launch in August of 2016 (see video above!)
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| [Feb 2016] The new architecture replaced Brubeck's thin display housing with a large "tower" extrusion, and would fit an onboard computer and power supply. | The Coltrane P0 assembly. |
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| A side view of Coltrane P0. | [Jun. 2016] The first assembled Coltrane Proto 0 unit. |
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| And the first thing we ever cut with it. | Components of the Z axis. |
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| The assembled Z Axis. | [Jun. 2016] Coltrane P0, ready for the launch video. |
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| A set of speakers I made with Origin for the launch video. | |
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| [Aug. 2016] Shooting the Shaper Origin launch video. | |
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| [Nov. 2016] Origin was featured on the cover of Wood Magazine, on the shelves of Barnes and Noble. | The Shaper Team, circa our product launch on August 23rd, 2016. |