About

We think the first cut on a real machine should be a formality.

Twinwright started with a question: can a desktop mill come with a twin so faithful that the first cut on the real machine is a formality?

We designed the MC-1 as a parametric CAD model with its drawings, wiring and checks generated from one source, then built its twin from the same data: the real grblHAL firmware on a virtual clock, with models of the drives, the spindle, the switches, the cut and the errors of the machine.

Along the way the twin found bugs in the firmware itself, which we reported upstream. That is the kind of evidence we want every claim on this site to rest on.

MC-1 twin

How we work

Evidence over claims

Every number on this site comes from a model, a test or a measurement you can reproduce. Where it is still a design value, we say so.

Findings go upstream

Bugs the twin finds in the open-source firmware we build on go to its developers with reproductions. Model parameters carry their sources.

One machine, one twin

The simulator and the mill are one product. Each MC-1 is measured and ships with a twin of its serial number.

Learners first

The twin is free for every student, maker and researcher. The machine is how we stay in business.

Contact

Questions about Studio, the MC-1, education, research or press — write to us.