But it's actually a CNC (Computer Numerical Control ... Since the second project, carving a 3D image into a board, promised to also be messy, I resolved to hook up a vacuum right away.

anyone with a CNC machine like this could easily reproduce their terrain of choice. We imagine the process might be easily ported to other tools like 3D printers, provided the resolution is high ...

Introduced last year as an improvement on the very popular Shapeoko CNC router, the X-Carve by Inventables ... That last item is an interesting bit of kit – routing takes time, and a 1¼HP ...