Automatic Wire Cutter and Stripper
Description
(a video of it in operation: youtube.com/watch?v=F2O7kGE34EA )
Why?
To create lengths of wire that fit perfectly into an electronics breadboard. (we produce kits and you can only hand cut and strip so many wires before you go crazy)
This is also the first item in a concept oomlout.com is working on dubbed "open manufacturing". (more to follow)
How?
It breaks down into three parts
1. Wire Feeder - This feeds the wire in measured lengths forwards and backwards (uses a stepper motor)
2. Wire Stripper - This runs an exacto knife blade around the insulation of the wire twice. (uses a small servo motor and normal sized servo motor)
3. Wire Snipper - Snips the wire at the end. (uses a pair of wire cutters and a cheap handheld drill motor)
Instructions
I fear the details are a tad complex this is added more as a curio but if you would like to build one yourself, send me a message and I can help out with the details (or if enough people are interested I'll hash it out a tad further)
(Also included is the Arduino Software to run it)
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please send me the specificatons of the project
my email is lgwesterhoff@home.nl
please send me the specificatons of the project
my email is sajib_zr@yahoo.com
Can you send me the specifications
my email is mattwagner92597@aol.com
One more thing: couldn't this wire cutter module be adapted to cut paper, vynil, fabric... circuit boards...?
It is essentially a thing that rotates a knife. It the knife would be mounted in a 90 degree angle, and pivoted by the discs' rotation, it could become another RepRap toolhead. And a useful one too. The RepRap frame is probably rigid enough, since it can also do (light) milling with a Dremel (see: http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ar... ). The RepRap could become a complete fablab/replab :)
I absolutely love it. The design is very nice, and the fact that you made it an open source machine and posted it on thingiverse is even cooler! I'm really interested in seeing what oomlout.com will do. Open manufacturing rocks!
Hey, Great idea! If you could provide me with a parts list, I think that I really would like to make one of these
Hey Jay:
I fear it was more of an organic build on this end, so I didn't keep a very rigorous tally on the parts.
The main bits of help though.
1.Stepper Motor - Size NEMA 23
2.One Normal size RC Servo and one miniature one.
3.All the bolts are 3mm of varying lengths (on some of my other projects I've been told 1/8" bolts work well (i think they are #6))
4. All O-rings are ((3/4" ID 3/16" Bead Dash #314)(McMaster-Carr Product #9452K387 )) - They are great because they fit as tires on a regular skate bearing. (we also had them in stock)
Other than that I think the design may need to be changed a bit to suit your parts on hand (also this isn't the most engineered of our items so several trips back and forth to a laser cutter to fix minor problems may be required).
That said it is well impressive once it gets up and running. and if you have any questions I'm more than happy to help out.
Regards
Stuart
oh man! i really wish the Thingiverse Parts Lister was finished... i'm porting the code over from parts.reprap.org and adding a nice GUI. soon, very soon...
The images aren't loading/rendering yet, but this is an excellent concept! I wanna build one as soon as I get back!!!
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please send me the specificatons of the project
my email is: mark@mmiles.net Thanks