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What a CNC Hot Wire Cutter Can Do
As programmed by "technoemotional designer" Diego Garcia Cuevas
Diego Garcia Cuevas is a computational designer and architect who practices "Technoemotional design." He's co-founder of the Controlmad Advanced Design Center, a hi-tech fabrication lab, and a professor in the Architecture program at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. With his credentials, he was invited to program this CNC hot wire cutting system at the University of A Coruña's own fab lab. Here's what Cuevas got it to do:
How about that back cut!
It's not meant to be an actual chair; the material is a discarded chunk of foam from a nearby construction site, so this test piece was sized to accommodate the material.
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Its great to see this technology become automated. The first time I had heard of using a hot knife on foam was from this French/Japanese artist known as Mizui. He used car batteries and manually fed wire through blocks of foam to create studies for larger works in stone. He was looking for the same smooth undulations seen in the process above. But 40 years ago. https://yasuomizui.com/en/the-wall-of-hope-english-ok/