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Irregular Log Offcut Computation and Robotic Fabrication

Collaboration with Sophia Chen, Jack Otto, Thomas Hart

This project explores the design, computation, and digital fabrication of anatural log shell structure. A found log was digitally scanned and sliced, the resulting geometry of each wood cookie was packed onto a target geometry with Kangaroo topological solver. The milling of joints and slicing of pieces was done in a dual functioning robot cell, with two 6-axisrobotic arms, the ABB-IRB 6700 equipped with the bandsaw and the ABB-IRB 4600 equipped with the spindle. This project attempts to leverage the robot arm’s ability to follow and mill joint geometry along a complex curve. The project explores crosscut wood cookies as an application of otherwise discarded, irregular wood pieces.