Machine Drawing Drawing Machines, a project for Pablo Garcia, is a narrative folio in which the patents of 12 historically significant drawing machines are recreated with an industrial Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine. Although CNC drawing is well trodden territory, this project carries poetic undertones in the ironic use of a highly specialized and powerful piece of manufacturing machinery to achieve a level of detail and accuracy that the last five centuries of drawing machines could only aspire towards.
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A speed project with the incredible Addie Wagenknecht of NORTD Labs during her one-week residency at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. For the micro-residency, Addie wanted to do a second installment of her 'Optimization of Parenthood' series ... a baby-rocking industrial robot! To make this a reality, we put together a small program to make our ABB IRB 140 gently rock a bassinet back-and-forth, then a bit more rigorously when the baby stirs:
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