Create an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine
— January 12th, 2018
What do you do when faced with measuring and cutting a bunch of cables? If you’re Edward Carlson, you “simply” build a machine to do it for you!
While it may not save time on this run, at least on the next occasion that he needs a few cables cut, he can just program his device to snip everything to size!
His setup uses an Arduino Mega with an LCD/button shield to tell the machine how long to snip each wire, then employs a stepper motor to move the cable between two rollers to the correct length. When in position, a high-torque servo actuates a (normally) manual pair of clippers to cut it to size.
Be sure to check out the project explanation in the video seen here, or skip to around 5:30 to see it in action!
January 15th, 2018 at 12:23:59
Cool!!!
January 15th, 2018 at 17:12:48
Hey, great project. But I have a confusion that how you have measured the length of the cable.
January 20th, 2018 at 11:12:27
Is using a mega a preference on this. I’m thinking of using a uno. Obvs I’m new to all this
October 27th, 2018 at 15:20:57
Do you have a complete schematic diagram for this project?
December 5th, 2018 at 18:59:24
Hello
Can you send any Details of your wire Cutter?
Or you will do Ego on this project.
Thanks for sharing
February 18th, 2019 at 09:02:49
Plz send me this machine aurdino program…and send me the smatic diagram
July 10th, 2020 at 09:38:23
Can you do a code with keypad instead of buttons?