We’ve seen a fair number of automated wire cutting builds before, and with good reason: cutting lots of wires by hand is repetitive and carries the risk of injury. What’s common to all these automated ...

Hardware hackers tend to have loads of hookup wire, and that led [firstgizmo] to design a 3D printable wire and cable spool storage system. As a bonus, it’s Gridfinity-compatible! The slot to capture ...

Sixto Erik Moralez is a Regional Motion Engineer with the Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America. Motion-control technology helped automate spoolchanging operations on machines that coil tubing, ...

A spool-to-spool guidewire-grinding system integrates multiple processing steps. Procedures for grinding medical guidewires commonly begin with cutting wires to length. A machine operator then ...