The annual event benefits the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore and features over 700 uniquely decorated holiday trees, wreaths, and gingerbread houses created by members of the local community. This year, employees decided to build a gingerbread replica of the Eiffel Tower and used digital fabrication to help with the creation.
Digital fabrication is a type of manufacturing process where a computer controls the machine that is used. One of the most common forms of digital fabrication, and the type that we used, was CNC milling where a rotary cutting tool cuts shapes out of wooden sheets—or in this case, gingerbread sheets. As such, we programmed our digital designs (below) into a computer which then operated the machine that carved out the physical designs.
