A CNC router is a machine that uses a computer to control a spinning bit (“CNC” stands for “computer numerical control”) in order to precisely carve materials (usually wood or metal, although you can basically carve anything that’s rigid-ish: I’ve seen folks route fiberglass, acrylic, styrofoam, ice, and even hunks of melon). Any shape you can map with a computer can be carved by the appropriate CNC router.
In my humble, CNC routers are just lovely to watch, in and of themselves. If robots had to invented ballet, it would look like this. That the process is being used to produce a Möbius strip lends the whole think a little extra cognitive luster. I especially like that they elected to retain–and even accentuate–the milling artifacts of the CNC process; lends just the right touch of wabi-sabi, the degree to which a “perfect” automated process still leaves signs of its having passed this way.
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