DIY Wire Bender: Difference between revisions

Inspired by [http://www.instructables.com/id/DIWire-Bender/ |this awesome DIWire-Bender Instructables] I thought one of these would be cool to have around, for the purposes of making cool things with wire.  

The company that seems to have helped with these instructions actually sell a commercial version of this now (via [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1638882643/diwire-the-first-desktop-wire-bender | a kickstarter]), they also include a gallery of [http://www.pensalabs.com/bendables/ | "Bendables"] showing the types of things you can do. For myself, I thought it might be cool to make springs of various sizes, perhaps custom cages for various applications.  Actually, I think perhaps one of the genesis for this was watching a cool video posted on [http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/2i2vnw/paper_clip_machine | reddit] about [http://giant.gfycat.com/ReliableForkedItalianbrownbear.gif | how paperclips are made]

The [https://code.google.com/p/diwire/downloads/list | bill of materials] on the DIWire bender Instructables has some pretty intimidating stepper motors that seemed a little out of the desired price range for a hobby machine, so as a compromise I decided to grab the highest N-cm torque stepper motors that [https://www.creatroninc.com/ | Creatron] stocked, hoping that those will do the job (actually, it may just mean that we have a limitation on the amount/width of wire we can bend). Who knows, we'll see how it goes.   

* 3D printed files from the [https://code.google.com/p/diwire/downloads/list | Bill of materials] for the Instructable