Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine
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Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine
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Re: Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine
#2Awesome!! However, I couldn't help notice that if you have a 3D object, it seems that it keeps spinning the chord around the machine - at one point it would unplug itself - should be an easy fix though.
Re: Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine
#3Wow nice prototype, does it make sense to use Arduino production?
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#4This is great! Very ingenious design. How would it fare with thin wire?
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#5So 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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#6Is there a 3d LOGO?
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#7So cool -- out of curiosity, is this emulating the actions of a pre-existing, "professional" machine or is the concept brand new?
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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#8So cool -- out of curiosity, is this emulating the actions of a pre-existing, "professional" machine or is the concept brand new?
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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#9Wow nice prototype, does it make sense to use Arduino production?
Absolutely not as it would be too expensive. It looks like the Arduino is used to drive a couple motors. You could do the same thing with any inexpensive micro-controller. It's a pretty cool, self contained design though.
Re: Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine
#10it will be hours of fun
somebody should create a online shop where we can get these gadgets built and shipped