Like many people with multiple woodworking tools, [Will Stone] wanted to create a centralized dust collection system ... way to automatically kick on the vacuum when one of the tools started ...

An on/off switch for the rotating brush lets you stop the brush from rotating when using tools or cleaning bare ... and reduces the risk of injury if the vacuum tips over during use.

Depending on the system's intended application, there may be as few as two or as many as eight or more process chambers, along with one or several robots. A basic cluster tool design can be seen in ...