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Recently I have been fascinated by the awesomeness of wire bending machines. Has anyone done any really funky stuff purely with wire bending? I am thinking furn
by contingencies 2y ago
Recently I have been fascinated by the awesomeness of wire bending machines. Has anyone done any really funky stuff purely with wire bending? I am thinking furniture scale creations, green walls, giant sculpture, etc. Haven't quite got the timespace to build one but should be straightforward assuming small guage wire. There are some open source ones published: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=open+source+wire+bending https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=open+source+wire+bending
- szvsw 2y agoTook a class a few years ago which was on developing optimization pipelines for engineering design. Was fun, fairly mixed bag of students from all over the institute, both undergrad and grad. Anyways, one student from aero/astro did a project on wire-bending for assembly of truss-like structures… in space! I believe his project was on trying to improve the bending sequence to arrive at an arbitrary desired structure. Not sure if he ended up publishing his work.
- contingencies 2y agoCool. Space would be a great place for it - less opposing forces, plenty of 'space', so simpler processes become more scalable. On folding, there's some interesting similar work from origami academics and noodle nerds looking at things like how you can pre-score or pre-plan to auto-achieve a selected geometry by constricting limited lines of tension across partly rigid planes, or achieve arbitrary geometries on flatpack noodles when rehydration occurs. In general, the flatpack/IKEA notion gets really hard really quickly once you take tooling, protected workspace and dextrous free labor out of the equation.