Working with Eric Rosenthal, I've been building a CNC milling machine for ITP. The first goal for that device is to have a functioning machine that can cut out circuit boards. The second is to do small scale modeling.

When we first started this project, there were two trends in how people conceived of the project.
Some wanted a tool for making things. Others wanted a more flexible tool for creative input. Everyone agreed that once this machine was at ITP, it wouldn't be long before someone put an unusual drawing device on it (e.g. cake icing squirter).

With this in mind, the midterm for this class would be to build a second machine, similar to the one used for cutting. This second machine would be the one that the hordes could descend upon, adding new input and output methods, while the original machine would be kept ready to cut in the standard way.

The project will involve creating a wiki-style database of code to send to the machines, documenting their abilities, but a platform without implementations on the platform doesn't provide enough of an interaction. To that end, this project would also include the development of a few example modifications, by myself and with other students.