But despite their mainstream adoption and the promises of how they'll transform manufacturing, there's one thing that these new machines still suck at. "3-D printers and CNC [lathes] are well suited ...

If you enjoy creating new things you might be interested in a new machine called the DIWire Wire Bender which has been created to enable you to bend wire to your exact specifications. The innovative ...

Do you want to make your own springs? Yeah, that’s what we thought. Well, blow the dust off of that spare Arduino and keep reading. A few months ago, we let you know that renowned circuit sculptor ...

It doesn’t seem as though bending wire would be much of a chore, but when you’re making art from your circuits, it can be everything. Just the right angle in just the right place can make the ...

3-D printing can theoretically build anything you can imagine. Theoretically. But when designers at Pensa were prototyping a stylish chair with spindly legs, they discovered a problem: Since the ...

*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there's some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts. *That's really a beautiful example of "cheap complexity" in 3d ...

Claude Swami Jeffers was literally bearing a cross when he came into the Express recently. His elaborate wire structure Wire Bending Dying was not only visually compelling, but spoke in volumes of a ...