Long time readers will know I have something of a fetish for odd CNC machines. I spied this cool little CNC Wire Bender on the Tormach Blog and couldn’t resist passing it along:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w3ftjV3r-w[/youtube]
Here’s the full on demo…
The guts of the machine look something like this:
Gears, steppers, and timing belts, oh my!
Pensa is a design consultancy, so the machine, web site, and software are very stylish:
Looks more like a high dollar Hi Fi Tube Amp or something Apple would make than a CNC machine: cool!
The machine is very cool, and at $3000 on Kickstarter relatively affordable if you have a use for one. I’m not real sure what I’d do with it except play. I leave you with one of the art projects they did with it:
Like what you read on CNCCookbook?
Join 100,000+ CNC'ers! Get our latest blog posts delivered straight to your email inbox once a week for free. Plus, we’ll give you access to some great CNC reference materials including:
- Our Big List of over 200 CNC Tips and Techniques
- Our Free GCode Programming Basics Course
- And more!
Just enter your name and email address below:
100% Privacy: We will never Spam you!

Bob is responsible for the development and implementation of the popular G-Wizard CNC Software. Bob is also the founder of CNCCookbook, the largest CNC-related blog on the Internet.