All tagged cnc machine

Stitching Code by Hannah Twigg-Smith

Developing new workflows for CNC machines often requires writing code to translate different representations of data into a format understood by the machine. How might we do this in the embroidery machine ecosystem, where file formats and machine software are generally proprietary and closed-source?

Embroidery with a Shopbot by Gabrielle Benabdallah

There are several reasons why CNC milling remains a tricky fabrication method. One of them is a fundamental design assumption at the core of CNC machines and CAM softwares: that the user seeks to realize a design that has been developed on the drawing table, not in the interaction with the machines. The machine only executes the design, the plan.