At design school we used a hot wire to cut blue foam. Since then I've seen a lot of different ways to cut foam, but I'd never seen this one before. It appears to be a dual-wire CNC rig:
If any of you can read the characters and/or know the provenance of this machine, please let us know in the comments!
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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A Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShfwuGndZulsKUcVGdbe0i understand this is the channel of a representative of the company that created this machine. Don't take my word for got it though
There are lots of differently-designed CNC hot wire machines. As a servo/motion control engineer I've had the chance to work on several. Check out Hotwire Direct (www.hotwiredirect.com) for some of these machines built especially for architectural uses.