Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine

Re:Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine by _mattb on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @10:01AM (#3948580)

So cool -- out of curiosity, is this emulating the actions of a pre-existing, "professional" machine or is the concept brand new?

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Re:Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine by neonkiwi on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @10:14AM (#3948638)

There are expensive machines you can buy that do this: CNC wire benders. From the first page of YouTube hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwygMdpQ8SU

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Re:Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine by _mattb on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @10:33AM (#3948745)

Cool, thanks. I just noticed they allude to these machines in their blog post: http://blog.pensanyc.com/tagged/DIWire

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Re:Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine by adaml_623 on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @10:14AM (#3948635)

There are wire and pipe bending machines that do this on a larger (and probably smaller) scale. They are however expensive and I doubt their tool chain is open source

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