If you ’re to think traditional craftsman , computer - assist plan and fabrication removes the romanticism from making thing . Well shortly there ’ll be a half - way house : a hand - held CNC milling car .
The gadget , calledFreeD , is a hand - held , digitally command , milling devicedeveloped by MIT . fundamentally , it uses data from a computer to manoeuver and monitor the milling bit of the auto , provide the rough frame of the objective that is being created , but allows the user some freedom . According to the fashion designer :
“ Its interaction is either by slack down the spindle swiftness or by drawing back the shaft ; the rest of the time it allows stark freedom , letting the user to cook and form the oeuvre in any originative means . ”
That means that no two items made using FreeD are ever the same — perchance not something to use for preciseness applications , then — but it brings some of the artisan science back into devising . It allows some of the pre - mediated computer conception that everyone ’s so fond of these day , with the ability to actually plight with the procedure of making stuff — and I cerebrate that ’s pretty refined . The equipment is still in development , but you could see it in action in the picture to the left . [ FreeDviaMAKE ]
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