Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine

How does it know how not to bend the wire so it doesn't interfere with its own operation? And if it doesn't know, are there are set of heuristics used to know when the design you make isn't possible?

Here is a youtube video of same: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1zzDXlJoA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1zzDXlJoA</a><p>(For some reason Firefox + linux doesn't like Vimeo most of the time)<p>This is a cool device. And wire bending is used in a <i>lot</i> of things, from making holders to support frames. These things tend to be tuned to a particular wire gauge and minimum radius so some tool and die shops will have either multiple benders or various dies for a configurable bender.<p>Cool things you can make with these are baskets for catching/holding parts, springs, latch returns, awesome bubble wands, and artistic lettering.

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

Awesome!! 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.

it will be hours of fun<p>somebody should create a online shop where we can get these gadgets built and shipped

This is great! Very ingenious design. How would it fare with thin wire?

Wow nice prototype, does it make sense to use Arduino production?

Is there a 3d LOGO?