A Robot With a Chainsaw! 101
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timothy
from the make-it-stop-make-it-stop dept.
from the make-it-stop-make-it-stop dept.
mikejuk writes "If you are a fan of the Sci-Fi sub-genre of robot apocalypses, you may well not want to give a robot a chainsaw to wield. If, on the other hand, you are a creative artist, then it seems well worth the risk, as this video demonstrates. In this case the robot is a standard industrial arm with an electric chainsaw mounted where the gripper would normally go. Exactly what the robot is doing isn't obvious to the viewer, but once it is finished the whole thing is disassembled to reveal two wooden stools and some interesting shapes. A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."
Re:CNC machine (Score:4, Interesting)
"Subtractive 3D printer" is a better term, though.
CNC == Computer Numerical Control
CNC would be a better acronym for a calculator.
Good machine, poor software (Score:5, Interesting)
He has a 5-axis robot with a cutting tool. That's enough to do real sculpture. Just grinding out a three-legged table with straight cuts is far less than the machine could do. This suggests the software being used isn't a real 5-axis CNC package. He needs HyperMill. [youtube.com] Take a look of what that can do with a 5-axis mill.
Re:next on the list (Score:4, Interesting)
Already done. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120920-laywoo-d3-new-fdm-filament-can-print-wood-with-tree-rings.html [3ders.org]