Wire straightener and feeder The bender isn’t without some issues though, such as that there’s no automatic method for giving it bending instructions.

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an STM32 BLDC motor winding machine. This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. The ma… ...

Anyone interested in getting their own desktop wire-bending machine can pre-order one by contributing $3,200 or more, unless they're quick enough to grab one of the specially discounted packages.