"Shapeoko" etymology?

It’s a good word - “Shapeoko”. But I’ve often wondered…what is the meaning? Who picked it and how/why?

It was worked up by the machine designer, @edwardrford who launched it as a Kickstarter 26 June 2011:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edwardrford/project-shapeoko-a-300-complete-cnc-machine?ref=live

and is the author of:

The name comes from the two services:

and

which were used to source parts of early versions.

There’s a fair bit of backstory on the CNC Zone forums, but I keep telling all the folks involved

that they should write their memoirs/story:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178590870/the-nomad-cnc-mill

something along the lines of:

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