Here are a few pictures of the CNC Wire Bender I started a while back. It will eventually be used to make landing gear wire and propeller shafts.

In this picture I’m experimenting with servos, an Arduino, a stepper controller, EMC2 CNC software, acrylic, gears, pinch rollers and much more.

The wire will be driven through the bender using pinch rollers and a stepper. Some servos will do the actual bending of the wire.

This was the first attempt and I have learned a lot since these experiments so I will actually start over (a few other projects are ahead of this right now). I made all the parts by hand which triggered my tennis elbow (except the parts that were harvested from old printers).

Since then I’ve learned a lot about making parts plus I have access to all sorts of cool mechanisms of making things such as laser, CNC and so forth. I also now know where to buy parts as well.

Sometimes that’s faster than fixing what you have.