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

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There are expensive machines you can buy that do this: CNC wire benders. From the first page of YouTube hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwygMdpQ8SU

Cool, thanks. I just noticed they allude to these machines in their blog post: http://blog.pensanyc.com/tagged/DIWire

There are wire and pipe bending machines that do this on a larger (and probably smaller) scale. They are however expensive and I doubt their tool chain is open source

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