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-One of the easiest ways to make a CrowBox of your own is to order the laser-cut CrowBox housing parts from the CrowBox showroom at Ponoko, a popular online laser-cutting service. To do so you need to:
+====== Ponoko Guide ======
-  - Make your own account at [[https://ponoko.com|Ponoko]]
+**NOTICE, January 22, 2023**
-  - Visit our [[https://www.ponoko.com/showroom/jC3mi8b9|CrowBox Showroom]] at Ponoko and choose either the brown or green color scheme
-  - Scroll down to below the image of the CrowBox and click the green button labeled //Add to Personal Factory//
-  - You will be asked to agree to the terms of the Creative Commons Share Alike license
-  - Click the //Add// button
-  - The CrowBox housing design and materials will be copied into the //My Designs// section of your own Ponoko account. This process can take a little while.
-  - When the copy has finished, click the black folder labeled //My Designs//
-  - Click the CrowBox design that was just added to your designs
-  - Scroll all the way to the bottom of the CrowBox design page, then click the //Make It// button
-  - Follow the Ponoko website instructions to finalize and submit your order
-Once the parts arrive, check out our [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpfDKGsrnBESVeekIrV1mNA?view_as=subscriber|YouTube Channel]] for step-by-step assembly videos.
+We have recently made some minor changes to the design of the Crowbox parts to make the Crowbox easier to assemble, and we are in the process of updating the Ponoko order page so that orders will be produced using the newer design.
-Note that Ponoko shipping charges make up a big chunk of the final cost of a single set of parts - it's much more price-effective if you and a friend order your sets of parts together.
+We estimate that this page will be updated before February 1, 2023 to include a new link to Ponoko so that you can order Crowbox parts.
+Once the parts arrive, check out our [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpfDKGsrnBESVeekIrV1mNA?view_as=subscriber|YouTube Channel]] for step-by-step assembly videos.
-Disclaimer: We have bought several sets of CrowBox parts from Ponoko in order to verify their quality and accuracy. We have had good customer service experiences with them, as well. For these reasons, we're happy to recommend Ponoko as a place for you to buy your parts. Ponoko charges fees for materials, manufacturing services, and shipping but we have no financial interest or affiliation with them. We receive **no** money when parts are bought at Ponoko- We're just making a service recommendation.
+**Disclaimer:** //We have bought several sets of CrowBox parts from Ponoko in order to verify their quality and accuracy. We have had good customer service experiences with them, as well. For these reasons, we're happy to recommend Ponoko as a place for you to buy your parts. Ponoko charges fees for materials, manufacturing services, and shipping but we have no financial interest or affiliation with them. We receive **no** money when parts are bought at Ponoko - we're just making a service recommendation.
+//
 If you'd like to consider other online laser-cutting services, you can download the housing [[kit:geometry_files|geometry files]] from here and submit them to a service of your choosing.
-You may also download the geometry files and take them into your local makerspace to ask about having them laser cut for you.
+You may also download the [[kit:geometry_files|geometry files]] and take them into your local makerspace to ask about having them laser cut for you.