Arduino 3D Wire Bending Machine
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In this tutorial I will show you how I built an Arduino based 3D wire bending machine. This is actually a typical mechatronic system because it involves mechanical, electrical and computer engineering. So therefore I believe many engineering students or anyone who is new into mechatronics found this project interesting.
Design inspiration: • THE D.I.WRE BENDER
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hey can you tell me what are he applications of this machine? what are the things we can make with this machine or wire banding machine.
and thanks for the awesome project.
Hello sir, we look into design or get a new wire bending tool from you for our wire bend design, can you please help us to resolve
For 30 odd years I worked for a spring making company, during which time computer-controlled machines of increasing flexibility gradually appeared, making compression, tension, and torsion springs as well as wire shapes. I've been retired now for 13 years, so it was quite amazing to view your video which demonstrated the principles upon which these machines worked. It would have made the problem of explaining what we did to lay people a lot easier.
My own contribution to the company was in designing and making electronic devices to improve the functions of older, non- computer-controlled machines. Although I made my own printed circuits boards, the designs were initially based on TTL integrated circuits and latterly Programmable Logic Controllers - nothing as advanced as Arduinos.
What would I have given for a 3d printing machine ?
I was also responsible for our computer system, in its metamorphosis from a punched-card system (with a 2K hard disk!), through unix based COBOL, to an Informix relational database system. I learned to code in many languages, so your program explanation was also fascinating to see.
Thank you so much for posting this project, I found it most interesting.
I'm so glad a person with that much experience in the area found this video interesting. Thanks for the comment!
Hello @Don Johnson24
I find your comment and work on the machines very interesting!
If there were videos on the subject made by you (e.g. your PCB designs, TTL circuits you worked with, PLC logics, most importantly Unix and even how those punch-card systems and COBOL worked) I'd be very interested to watch them.
Thanks for adding your input on this video, I always find stories like this very fascinating.
Have a great day!
Cool tie in Don!
This is one of the most well written comments I've ever seen! I feel obligated to capitalize and punctuate everything from this point on.
These explanations of how processes were executed should be standard curriculum for all mechanical engineering degrees.
Every ME should buy a cheap 3D printer and an Arduino kit . It honestly takes about 8 hours to learn it. I learned it and use it everyday for my actual job. It's like unlocking a cheat code for a video game.
@@nickmandarino8234 Any kits and guides you'd recommend?
You have really done a fine job with this! I’ve seen the large commercial units that cost mega-bucks to acquire but this is an amazing workaround for folks on a budget. The best thing is that you have done such a nice job documenting your work. Thanks so much for being a class person and passing on this great information.
Thank you!
I used to run a wire bender. it's amazing how simple it CAN be on the small scale, large scale is a different story. Great job on your project, happy that it works well.
This is one of the best Arduino projects I've ever seen! The video quality is great, and every step is explained in details, so that everyone can build it. The narration is great as well, you're getting better and better with each project! Keep up the amazing work Dejan!
The idea is pretty amazing and original i must say, i never thought about making such a thing, now i do
Thank you! This means a lot to me, I will always try to give my best!
@@HowToMechatronics супер ти е идејава само да оставеше и телефонче за нарачки на “обликуваната жица“ :)
Agreed, REALLY excellent project & presentation. THANK YOU!!
The project idea is available open source on 'diwire - a desktop wire bender'. Not original....
This is a really fantastic project, initially I thought the demonstration was just a computer generated graphic but later discovered that it is the real deal... Great work, more of this please!!!
you make an complex topic easy and fun to understand. very nice, i hope u keep uploading content like this :)
Fantastic job, so refreshing to see someone who doesn’t use hot glue for everything. 👍🏻
Yea I mean think about it, the things we couldn't do without hot glue
don't criticize. i use hot glue even for my pubes
For some reason, hot glue is ok
Modern wood glues are amazingly strong.
Really a 3D printer is just a very precise hot glue gun
today i learned something very special from you. i love wire products machinery. thank you so much for your ideas. 👍🏻
Fatastic!!! This is amazing in so many levels. And your shop so clean 👏👏
I love the insert nut on the gears to secure them to the axle 👍
This is a very cool machine, and a very well documented project. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks!
Hey everyone, thank you so very much for the positive feedback and motivation! I will definitely keep making this kind of content, so stay tuned! 😉
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Is that an affiliate link to banggood? If so... pretty shady you don't announce it in the video, that you get money from them
Супер видео! На крајот можда ако ставиш гума и на цевката и на лагерот (парче внатрешна гума од точак на пример😉) би се решил проблемот.
П.С. Не би било лошо да ставиш captions на македонски. 😉
Oh man, you really show us that the imagination and creativity have no limits... thanks a lot, I've learned a lot with your videos!!!! What a beauty machine!!!
well done, very informative. As for your wire feed problem, have a look at MIG welders, how they feed the wire, also they use a spring tension with the bolt adjusting the tension, this allows for the fractions of an inch variations in the wire. Also, larger industrial machines used a hardened knurled drive wheel, which grips the wire, again which should be cheaply available online in a variety of sizes. Also pushing soft wire thru the copper tube, it has too much room to be able to bend, perhaps get pvc tube in different sizes and slide on inside the other and side the whole lot into the copper, or print something. It's a bit like trying to push a rope up hill, put it in a tube and you can do it, put it in a huge pipe and it will bend and fold over inside.
I learned how cool this would be to be able to do. And i also learned, just how much easier life is when you have a very nice 3d printer!
nice vid
One of the best 3d print project videos on TH-cam
Everything fits perfectly... Beautiful to watch.
Awesome. It is a nice piece of engineering.
Exceptional thank you. I’ve been building a wire bending spring maker that I found on instructables which is really good and to now find your clever invention will give me not just an alternative wire bending machine but also a deeper understanding of all that is going on both with the mechanics but even more importantly, with the coding which I am quite new to. Thank you for a clear, simple and easy to understand explanation, it is of great value to me personally and I am very grateful, thank you 😎
There are a lot of preventative measures and quality assurance modes on this that I can appreciate.
From one engineer to another, good job
I really appreciate the time and energy you've put into making this.
wooooooow 😍 🤩 I'll build it to my mom she really loves making shapes with wires
thank you so much 💪🏽🤤
Had a cup of coffee and watched this video. Wonderfully simple, very well explained - and certainly inspiring!
You are one of the brightest minds in practical engineering I ever saw on TH-cam, I wander how many times you failed for doing this amazing piece of machinery
3:15 - I really like the way you designed the gear to accept nuts. I'm going to use this in future designs! Thanks for the great idea!
Feeder issue: Perhaps have two drive wheels tied together with a gear on one side of the wire, then have two pressure rollers with a tension spring on the other side. That would double the area and grip of the unit.
If you're working with flat shafts and you can just put in a 5mm screw hole, you can use the regular self-threading plastic screws (like what PC fans use), instead of needing nuts. The screws are cheap, and it works really well for securing a plastic part to a shaft.
Very nice build! It's the first project I've seen that makes me think that I might have to add a 3D printer to my shop!
For your straightener/feeder problem at the end, I'd suggest either gluing a strip of sandpaper to the copper tube in the feeder for extra grip, or perhaps using a rubber roller (salvage from an old printer or such).
Alternatively, a very simple solution to the feeder problem would be to put some heat-shrink tubing over the copper tubing. Should raise the coefficient of friction enough to solve the slipping problem.
You can 3D print rubber-like soft plastics as well if you have the right printer setup.
Knurled carbide roller. Edit: search mig wire roller.
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@@JimmysTractor Not a bad idea, but if your tension is set too high, it will leave marks in the wire. If that's not an issue, that's a great idea. It gives you plenty of grip, and makes a good positive connection between the roller and the wire.
Interesting, usefull medium level , this is a project that is quit in reach for most ! Love it !
I'm a EE., my kids are interested in engineering and they would LOVE this project, please keep this stuff going man!!
I have to agree with the majority of the commenters.
Great build.
Excellently documented.
You explanations are clear and precise.
Even considering your comments regarding the flaws of the machine is awesome too.
You have just gained a new subscriber.
Regarding the feed issues.
Mig welders often use a knurled wheel as well as a bearing wheel.
So perhaps try that instead of the roughed up copper tube.
Also. The straightener part of the machine. .
When using a similar pipe straightener machine, you pull the pipe in and out of the straightener a few times. Maybe you could feed and return the wire through a section of straightener a few times before starting a bend program?
Only thing it needs now are automated wire clips to clip the wire off once finished.
Very well executed.
Thank you! That's a good tip, pull in and out the wire several times before feeder to the bender. However, first issue to be solved is the grip of the feeder. Thanks again for the input!
I dreamed about this stuff as a kid and now as an adult still amazes me. A 5 axis cnc bender is about 150k, I love you can get a functional prototype in desktop size. Also never realized PCBs could be so cheap to have made.
This is an exceptional use of coding and 3d printing awesome build! I could really use something like this for automating wire bending for through wire fishing lures.
Well done, HTM! This is quality content.
The machine is well-built. I like how everything is custom designed (including the PCB, gears) and no hot glues or temporary wires are used. You use nuts and screw correctly to hold the motors in place.
Your video is quite in-depth and explains the details and how-to pretty well.
I've subscribed, definately looking for more!
I'm so glad to hear this, thank you! I will always give my best to make quality content.
Excellent video... I used to work in an shop where we had straighteners to take the bend out of coiled steel just prior to fine blanking. The straightener rollers WERE the feed rolls. The straightener rollers were geared in series and they did the feeding of material. To compensate for feed roll slippage, there was a single roller that counted the feed length. On your system, you could make the five straightener rollers into feed rolls and rework the current feeder roller into a potentiometer that counted distance and shut the feed off when a given distance was achieved. Thanks again for a great video. Thumbs up and a new subscriber here.
I was going to suggest putting a backing roller on the opposite side of the feed roller, so more drag force could be applied to the feed without increasing the lateral force on the servo shaft . . . but I think you have a better suggestion. I would replace your distance-counting potentiometer with a rotary shaft encoder that sends a pair of phase-lapped pulse trains to the arduino for measuring distance, though.
Yes Don, your suggestion is perfect. Makes for a much better solution.
awesome!
Wintergatan?
Oh are you here bec you needed to bend wire for the marble droppers and marble railings
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wow!! super amazing!!!!!!!! loved this project!!!!! Cheers from Argentina!!!!
That's some very fine work you did. I really love when electronics, software and mechanics work together.
Hi! thanks for the video!
I worked with a bending machine in an industrial setup (rebar bender for reinforced concrete) and it's pretty close to it, now I work in a factory that make MIG welding wires and we use straighteners almost like yours, I can give you some insight that we learned: first, you need to mount the three rollers individually, you will have more control on the straightening.
Next, if you don't or cant have much pulling force, you should add more straighteners (with that you can equalize the straightening force on multiple rollers and alleviate the strain on the drive mecanism) and I suggest to add a vertical one too (that will help with the overall straightening and your wire will be straight in both axis).
Now, for the pulling system, I recommand you to search about MIG welder wire driving systems, it's EXACTLY the same as you seek to achieve here.
Here is an example: cdn.eastwood.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/p/1/p12012_3.jpg
the bottom roller possess a groove and is motorized, the upper one pinch the wire on the groove, it is mounted on an arm and locked with a tensioning screw, it serve as a quick lock for the arm and it apply pressure on the wire that you can tune with the knob.
I hope that my humble experience will help you :)
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Crude, but its a very good start! I like it. I find the combination of both open source components, and 3d printed parts, a nice touch! Well done.
Thank you!
I was just thinking about trying to make one of these yesterday! You saved me some work! Thank you!
I love JLCPCB, everyone that they sponsor literally uses their product in the subject of the video and its pretty great.
WOW! Man! You are awesome! Thanks for posting! Subbed!
Thanks!
I think the same, I also subscribed ;-)
Great job on the pcb it turned out very clean!
This is wonderful! What a great project and what a clean execution! ... Great Job!
I noticed a few people asking for upgrades to this.
My suggestion would be to add an OLED screen, rotary encoder, an SD card reader and wire cutter.
The SD card allows feed and angle data to be added from a file.
The rotary encoder allows file selection input.
The OLED to give feedback to the user.
You could even use the encoder to enter data manually. Making the unit stand alone.
Scaling options.
With wire cutters you can program it to make 'x' amount of shapes.
Again.
Great project.
Nice work but plz create a code for reading .svg and .obj files and then adjusting bends maybe with the use of processing. And then it is complete.
Hi . . Jason
Great project! You mentioned at the end that you were having a problem feeding the wire due to slippage. If you borrow a design from a MIG welder feeder you can see the feeder pulley/gear has a knurled toothy grip where it contacts the wire. Perhaps you could get hold of one of those drive gears to use. As with many of your previous projects you have unique and what appears to be original ideas. Keep up the good work.
Thank you and thanks for the input! Yeah, the feeder in my design definitely needs some improvement. The first thing that I noticed is that the copper tube that I used, is actually softer material that the steel wire I was bending. So even when I tried to make some teeth to the copper tube, the material was week and got squashed by the wire. Also, when I tried to tighten then feeder more, the 3D printed shaft coupler broke, which means that the way that two rollers (the feeder and the bearing) are position is not quite good.
Or a direct-drive filament extruder assembly for 3D printing. Should easily mount onto your existing NEMA stepper and give you a knurled gear drive that should work. Not sure of your wire diameter but the filament is commonly 1.75mm so you might need to adjust a bit.
I want to make a spring coil machine and a mig feed wheel would be great thanks for the tip!
Thank you for this! I want to start my son into some fun projects and this is over our heads to start but something to work up to
You sir are a Genius!
You are doing mechanical engineering, Computer Aided Design, Custom Fabrication, Electronics Engineering, Computer/Software Engineering, Video Capture, Editing and production, Narrating, and at least 5 more things I am not smart enough to think about all by yourself.
It would take a multi-disciplinary team of competent professionals to accomplish what you can accomplish all by yourself.
Bravo! and Much Respect!
Thank you! And no worries, you can learn anything, you just need to put some effort. 😊
Very cool project!
Very interessting, great Job!
Thank you!
Great channel, i just discovered you today! I like the detail and clear explanations, keep up the good work.
Absolutely amazing; stunning video!
Very very nice project!
Bravissimo!
Thanks!
It is amazing that so many creative projects can be made using arduino and raspberry pi !
Yeah, they are amazing! :)
I don't find that amazing at all. A computer/microcontroller is today the first choice to implement almost anything. What is amazing that thanks to computer revolution we now can buy literally millions of transistors at a few cents/dollars/euros. Even more amazing is how come Arduino and Raspberry PI have become so popular when there was nothing special about them in the first place.
Yes! Today a microcontroller or raspberry pi is easy to operate. However, a decade back, it was intimidating for anyone without prior knowledge of microcontroller to prototype electronic projects.
Amazing work! One thing to say..
It's just.. Perfect.
Undoubtedly one of the coolest project videos I've seen. Awesome.
Use a mig welder wire feeder it's cheap but you can replicate it in 3d software. Amazing work!
Bingo. Might be able to get replacement parts for a wirefeed welder as well.
@@DavidCAdams you can buy a mig wire feeder on ebay very cheap. If you like to spend more money you can buy a branded one and better quality.
Why don’t you put some heat shrink tubing around the copper tube first and see if that helps. Coolest project I’ve seen yet. Keep up the good work.
Wow, Really Amazing. So cool to be able to create a true physical computing solution.
Thank you!
This is one of the best practical demonstrations of the fundamentals of mechatronics that I've ever seen. Physical manipulation and mechanical feedback of/from the environment, electronic interface to process and give action to the software commands/feedback, custom-coded software running the show. All the principles you need to learn, in a really nicely engineered demo project. Excellent work, 10/10, new sub here. Happy new year from Australia mate, all the best for 2019!
Thank you so very much for comment, it means a lot to me! I will give me best to make more projects like this one. Happy New Year! :)
@@HowToMechatronics How about turning the straightening rollers into a variable-pressure extruder with directly opposed rollers in horizontal/vertical planes... So you could program different round/flat/square wire profiles in different sections of the produced shapes?
It's a lot of extra engineering, but should be simple to implement on the software side.
Is it possible, what do you think? 😁
Maybe a linear actuator would have enough holding force to apply suitable pressure to a copper wire, or maybe you need some kind of gearing-reduced servo/stepper mechanism to adjust the distance/pressure of the rollers?
Amazing, mechanic, electronic and software analysis, design, manufacturing, implementation, integration, testing, debugging...all in one amazing project/product! Congratulations!
Thank you!
That 7805 voltage regulator must get pretty hot going from 12 volts down to 5 volts.
Really cool project!
You say it. It's so amazing.
Excellent job, I am very happy to see your machine, cheers... keep it up.
Ignore those thumbs down may be those people do not know that this video is for technical people.
this project video is one of the best Arduino tutorials I've seen, and the wire bender is awesome! Great job showing as well as explaining everything. Thanks!
Thank you!
I'm a new viewer. Only minutes into watching my first video, I'm already subscribed. Great build!
I wonder if it could made to run something like GRBL.
Thank you! Well to be honest, I couldn't afford more time in making the program more functional. Maybe in future video I could make a GUI, probably using Processing IDE, where you can draw a shape on a canvas, and then send the shape to the Arduino using the serial port, and the machine will make the shape . But like I said, it takes time to make such a thing, so maybe in some future video.
It should just work using GRBL (with some basic GRBL config) G-Code would instruct the machine.
The people who have this a thumbs down are plain haters ! This is awesome !
No cutting gloves man...
This is genius! Thanks for describing the steps so well!
Very impressive! As other comments have pointed out, you have very high level knowledge and skills across many disciplines. Show this video to any potential employer and you'll get the job.
Will give JLCPCBs a try. Your board looked very nice BTW.
Thank you!
Thanks The creator i have found my mentor .will u be my mentor
1:00 that hurt my brain so much😂
Excellent! I've been wanting to make one of these ever since I saw the original DIWire video (which I'm please to see you credit). You've done a nice, straight-forward version that I'm looking forward to building, and a great tutorial.
Thank you so much for this build. You are an inspiring maker with absolutely top notch project
супер!!!
I don't think I've ever seen anyone custom order a PCB and then use it as a breadboard.
Modularized design, not really a bread board, but true.
yea that was kind of a waste, sockets for JST connectors are not expensive and would have made this thing so much better.
To make it easy to switch out the stepper drivers (since it's not hard to over-heat then) I presume.
I make compression springs and wire-forms at work. Your project is really good, well done.
This tutorial is really well explained and this project is pretty cool!
You win the Internet today. Treat it well. Fill the tank with gas before you bring it back.
Too funny 😂!
Bless
Take a shot every time this guy has a voice crack
I'd rather not die from alcohol poisoning
puberty a bitch when youre in college level grad school engineering class lol
By far this is the project/video that I liked the most. This is not only excellent to teach mechatronics, but also an excellent example of the usefulness of many tools combined to make a real machine.
Thanks!
*I appreciate JLCPCB* for sponsoring videos like this instead of sending spam emails. I cannot get rid of spams from JSD PCB and other PCB companies which I ask for a quotation once.
*Extra tip* about asking quotation from "some" PCB companies: use a disposable e-mail address.
BTW *thank you for this awesome project* !!!
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Да такой же гуманоид. Другой вопрос : зачем это всё в смысле практического применения?
@@xexex7017 как зачем. Гнуть всякие няшки в большом количестве. Для дизайна каркасов и тому подобного
Согласен, что в качестве макета более мощных станков данная поделка приемлема, но я не вижу каких либо новых технологических решений. Вот я о чём.
Металом (нормальным )скоро напечатает ,и сразу в работу😊
Это индус, а не наш ;)
How many voice cracks can someone have??
If I may comment, yours is one of that roughly 10-20 percent of videos of an instructional/educational nature that is fairly well put together, clear in explanation, and generally well done.
Thank you!
You get voicecraks 😂
Yeah, sometimes! :)
I realize it now, when you say it ;-)
Rude
Ok great content but omgggg fix your voice cracks.
Such a great and well documented project. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you!
I liked your video so much because you explain the coding too, I saw many people make different thing but they don’t say how to code for that.
Anyone watching this video in October 2019?
no
Nope
3:33 oof voicecrack
He has a lot more throughout the video
what a great video. I will also make this project myself. thanks.
Wow. Awesome. I've done piping design for years. We never had a machine this capable, this affordable.
На русском есть видео?Ты же кортавишь как русский.
может он поляк!
Таки нормальный рязанский акцент, можете мне верить!.... -)) Так и не разобрался - фигурки вручную писать, или с ArtCAM а можно ?
@@goshamaster57 он же показывает код - фигурки жестко забиты в скетче (ну и из консольки можно подавать команды), так что только вручную
Судя по акценту он индус
@@oc284 у него мелькает имя и фамилия в других роликах. фамилия довольно славянская, а вот имя - дежан, не похоже на русскую. скорее всего серб или что-то около того.
Magnifico. Una idea genial. Congratulations!!!!
Excellent work and I appreciate being honest at the end❤❤
Really impressive! I could use one to do initial modelling of ideas. :)
Congratulations! An excellent project.
I love EasyEDA and I've used their PCB fab service many times. Good quality and cheap too.
Very nice machine.
For the feeder problem perhaps what you need is some spring loading on the lever that presses against the feed roller. With just a tightening screw it is difficult to keep constant pressure on the wire.
Excelente video muchas felicidades,eres muy inteligente, gracias por explicarnos paso a paso como lo hiciste Suerte
you let me be proud of our Mechatronics.. keep showing them what knowledge - and integration of knowledge - that we have ...
keep up this excellent work ...
I thank you for sharing and bow down to your amazing creativity and ingenuity.
Awesome project and some brilliant workmanship shown.
This is one of the coolest projects I have seen in a while, presented in an enjoyable Video! Thank you very much for sharing and thumbs up!
Thank you! :)
I didn't know I needed this in my life but now I do!