A personal workshop for software, CNC, laser work, wood, automation, and local AI
Ivo Craft Hub is where I collect the projects I am building step by step: web apps, desktop tools, CNC designs, laser ideas, woodworking experiments, and local AI workflows. Some are already useful, some are still growing, but every one of them is connected to real work.
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The atelier
This website is the central place for my active projects. It connects the things I build on the computer with the things I want to make in the workshop: useful software, CNC products, laser engraving, small business tools, and experiments that may become real products.
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A visual direction inspired by wood, laser light, toolpaths, Bulgarian shevitsa geometry, and handmade details.
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Laravel, Rust, Tauri, CNC/CAM logic, local AI, dashboards, automation, and tools built for practical use.
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The goal is not only to write code, but to create things that can be used, shown, cut, engraved, sold, or improved.
How it started
Ivo Craft Hub started long before this page. It started with curiosity, with machines that needed fixing, with languages learned through life, and with the dream of building a place where digital ideas can become real things.
The beginning
When I was 18, I discovered computers, and I was amazed by them. They felt like a door to another world. I still remember going to internet cafés and using online translators to communicate with people from other countries.
For someone who grew up in a small city during the communist years, the possibility to speak with people around the world and discover other cultures felt almost magical.
Spain · languages · code
In my early twenties I moved to Spain. While working, I completed courses in programming languages and databases — Visual Basic, JavaScript, PHP, and database systems — and later another course in computer security.
Through that life journey I also learned Spanish, some German, and English. Those languages became another kind of tool: a way to connect, learn, work, and understand more of the world.
Frankfurt · first machines
Years later, while working in a burger restaurant in Frankfurt, I bought my first 3D printer from China. It was partly wooden, cheap, and not easy to make work. It needed patience, fixing, and a lot of tinkering.
But it gave me many wonderful hours and opened a new world: the idea that something designed on a screen could become a real object in my hands. After that came a small 3018 CNC machine, and later a K40 CO₂ laser.
The machines now
Today the dream has grown far beyond that first small printer. I now have four 3D printers, a large 2700 × 1300 mm CNC router, another 40 W CO₂ laser, and a laser machine that I built from scratch.
These machines are waiting for the same thing I am building now: a real workshop where they can finally have a proper home.
Bulgaria · Dobrovo
After some years I returned to Bulgaria with a dream: to build my own house and my own workshop. The house is now in its final stage, and the workshop is beginning.
That home is near Dobrovo, a beautiful village in a special corner of Bulgaria — about 100 km from Greece, 30 km from North Macedonia, 50 km from Serbia, and around 100 km from Sofia.
The name Dobrovo carries the feeling of the Bulgarian word “добро” — good, kind, and generous. Local people say that when Ivan Rilski passed through, he called it Dobrovo because the people there were good and welcoming.
This is where I imagine my dream workshop: mountain views outside, birds singing around, and machines inside turning ideas into real things.
Active workbenches
These are the main directions I am working on. Some projects are public apps, some are tools for my own workshop, and some are experiments that help me learn, build faster, and create products with machines.
CAD/CAM workbench
Path Studio is my long-term CAD/CAM direction for CNC work. The goal is a clean, practical editor for drawing, importing, preparing toolpaths, previewing jobs, and making CNC work easier to understand.
Open Path Studio →DeskPulse is a Windows desktop widget app for useful daily information: weather, notes, system status, sensors, and small desktop tools. It is built to stay practical, light, and easy to use.
Explore DeskPulse →Physical product bench
This is the physical side of Ivo Craft: signs, coasters, decorative panels, Bulgarian motif designs, laser engraved gifts, workshop helpers, and small product ideas made with CNC and laser machines.
Explore Gallery →Fabrication tools
Workshop Quote Pro is a practical quoting tool for CNC, laser, 3D printing, and fabrication work. It helps estimate material costs, machine time, presets, history, and realistic pricing.
Available on Microsoft Store
WebPBridge is a secure, offline Windows converter for WebP, PNG, JPG, and JPEG. It processes images locally on your own hardware for maximum speed and privacy.
Private experiment room
Local AI Lab is my private experiment space for local language models, coding agents, server tools, automation, and workflows that can help me build faster while keeping more control on my own machines.
Process
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Start with a clear problem, product idea, design shape, or workflow that needs to exist.
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Turn the idea into structure: UI, database, CAD drawing, toolpath, machine setup, or production plan.
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Build the smallest complete version that can actually be tested: on the site, on the desktop, or on the machine.
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Test it honestly with real screens, real users, real material, real machine limits, and real mistakes.
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Improve the result until it is simpler, clearer, stronger, more useful, and better looking.
Contact
Have a custom project, question, or idea for CNC, laser, 3D printing, software, or the workshop journey? Send me a message and I will read it from my dashboard.