The people of Georgia has long been well known for their pride in independence with a long history of fighting for the common man freedom and liberty. With that said, it’s no wonder the state is welcoming the American Machine Shop Network (AMSN) and its grassroots movement to help bring work back to U.S. manufacturers specializing in plastic & steel fabrication, machining, plastic injection molding, tooling, rapid prototypes and other custom manufacturing services at http://www.mfgpartners.net/steel-fabrication.

According to AMSN spokesperson Terry Maldonado, the company promotes over 1,250 machine shops throughout the United States with many being family-owned and veteran-owned fulltime operations producing quality machined parts and components. Maldonado said the MFGpartners.net website is used by businesses throughout Georgia as well as hundreds of additional companies nationwide and beyond sourcing for prototype parts, machined products in large and small quantities, stainless steel fabricators, molds, EDM services, castings and all other aspects of machine shop work at http://www.mfgpartners.net/stainless-steel-fabricators.

“AMSN offers virtually every industry complete capacities involving all types of turning, milling, Wire EDM, horizontal & vertical milling, conventional & NC machining, drill press work, automatic horizontal machining, radial drilling, sawing, centerless & cylindrical grinding, surface & blanchard, grinding, sheet metal sheating, welding & cutting, punch press, vertical saw capacities, small plastic parts, testing, inspection & assembly as well as other services,” said Maldonado. He added, “AMSN welcomes businesses throughout Augusta-Richmond County, Atlanta, Warner Robins, Macon, Albany, Athens-Clark County, Marietta, Savannah, Roswell, Columbus and other cities in Georgia to submit an RFQ for any type of custom manufacturing service.” Additional information is available at http://www.mfgpartners.net/small-plastic-parts

About MFGpartners / AMSN

MFGpartners.net (http://www.MFGpartners.net) is owned and operated by American Machine Shops Network (AMSN). The company specializes in promoting US-based manufacturers of machined parts, fabricated components, precision products and molds. AMSN is the largest network of custom manufacturers in the USA designed to help companies, engineers and others find the most suitable vendors specializing in CNC machining, fabrication, molding, prototyping and other contract manufacturing services.

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Depicted in the video above is a computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine hard at work drawing other machines. A project developed by Pittsburgh-based spatial-artist Pablo Garcia, the machine’s task was to draw twelve different pictures of historical drawing machines.

A professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Garcia also runs a collaborative and multidisciplinary studio called POiNT. There he guides teams through experiments in spatial architecture design that are unique and interesting. His work has included creating a proposal to develop a media park out of the one-acre large rooftop of the US Steel Tower. He and his team created a landscape where residents of the building could go to view three large media screens at night, and have a comforting park during the day. His passion for intertwining media with art is apparent in this project and several others, so it’s no surprise that he was inspired to tackle a CNC project.

Garcia decided to pick out twelve scenes of cutting edge technologies for their time periods. Modern day viewers will consider them quaint and dated considering the technology we are surrounded with today, but for their contemporary consumers, they certainly seemed brilliant. Take for example the “Profile Machine” pictured below. A design that allowed artists to trace a subject’s face easily, it promised to make any artist an instant success in the early 1800′s. I liken ideas like this to the get-rich quick infomercials of today.

Garcia most likely spent hours programming the CNC machine to reach the level of detail pictured in the final images. Obviously the video is sped-up a bit for visual enjoyment, so it’s safe to assume that each drawing took quite a while to complete.

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/a-cnc-machine-for-drawing-drawing-machines-20120412/