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  • CNC Repeatable Fabrication

    Design, Emergence, and Fabrication Repeatability

    Our preoccupations with design, emergence, and fabrication repeatability yielded this series of objects derived from simple-yet-adaptable design language of conic surfaces.

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    The Digital Craft of CNC Flip Milling

    Explorations in digital craftsmanship and the search for effortless flip milling with a 3-axis CNC router.

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    CNC Toolpath Surfaces and Digital Craft

    We’ve been advancing our digital craftsmanship with these CNC toolpath surface studies, in search of textures that make the most of a CNC router and humble materials.

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    Open Source Tisch Burckhardt

    Tisch Burckhardt is an open source CNC fabricated version of a desk commissioned in 1850 by the Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt. Learn more and download the CNC files to make your own version of Tisch Burckhardt.

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    AtFAB at Design Society Museum

    ‘Minding the Digital’ exhibits AtFAB alongside pioneers of digital design at the Design Society Museum, China’s first international contemporary design and cultural institution.

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    Share #AtFAB

    Downloaded over 11,000 times and built on 6 continents. Have you made AtFAB? Tag your posts and share your stories.

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    An Open Source Farnsworth House

    An invitation to exhibit A Mies for All at Hotel Droog tested concepts for the design and delivery of an Open Source Farnsworth House.

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    An Architecture Anyone Can Do

    Designing a digitally fabricated superstructure of A Mies for All while testing and validating its concept of manufacturing and construction assembly with a scale prototype made on our ShopBot desktop CNC router.

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    Oracles du design Exhibition

    The AtFAB 5-30 Minute Chair is included in ‘Oracles du Design’ at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. The only open design object included by curator Li Edelkoort, the chair sits alongside works by the designers we most admire.

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