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 ...

According to the company, compared to using 20-lb. spools, 32-lb. spools can reduce the number of spool changes from 3,000 to ...

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, ...

This post is brought to you by Avi, maker of Smart-Spools. “Cable organizers” is one of those useful product categories that no one can quite seem to get right. The engineering problem seems simple ...