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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:
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This thing is incredibly polished for a ‘KickStarter’ campaign. However, I’m surprised you have to cut the wire by hand.
T-Bone, I had the same reaction when he picked up the wire cutter. Clearly they need a DiWire 2.0 that has one built in.
This actually is the DiWire 2.0. The first prototype was all over the various maker sites about a year and a half ago. It didn’t have a wire cutter either, but it did have a third bending axis: http://makezine.com/2012/05/03/arduino-powered-wire-bending-machine/
Hi,
I know it’s hardly an obvious use, but the very first thing that I thought on was – Nixie tube cathodes!
I have a friend who’s hand-making neon Nixie tubes (http://dalibor.farny.cz/) and he currently gets the electrodes etched out of thin sheet by an external company. If this bender could be adapted/miniaturized for handling really small wire and tight bends, it’d be a real winner. Unfortunately, Nixie cathodes are probably a rather niche application 😉
As for a cutter, I guess that it would require a fair bit of sturdy mechanics in order to be able to cut decent wire, so that maybe adds too much to the weight/cost.
Lindsay
Air cylinder driven cutter would be easy to implement. Maybe an add on. If anyone is serious about making more than a hand full of parts, the automated cutter will be a must.