Neat Desktop CNC Wire Bender

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:

PensaBenderGuts

Gears, steppers, and timing belts, oh my!

Pensa is a design consultancy, so the machine, web site, and software are very stylish:

DiWire

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:

WireClock

 

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