this is so cool, I’m going to build something with stepper motors.

Posted at 3:23 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by TheFish

seems retarded

Posted at 3:40 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by mahder pwned

Be sure to watch part two of the video.

Posted at 3:47 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by Addictronics

lol it made more sense now, and part three too when he is cranking it full speed like a wigga from da hood on crackcocain. awesome.

Posted at 3:49 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by mahder pwned

The “related video” with the asian chick playing with mentos is hilarious

Posted at 4:10 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by MattieShoes

haha yea. 17 million views and 5000 comments. youtube is the shit

Posted at 4:12 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by mahder pwned

Nice project. I could have used something like this years ago when I was into high-power smps. The next trick will be to make it a bit smaller.

I don’t know why you think it’s retarded, mahder.

Posted at 5:59 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by Josh

Is that a roll of tape their wrapping the wire around?

Posted at 6:37 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by anthonydi

I’d like this a lot better if the camera work didn’t make me sick to my stomach. As it is, I can’t ‘quite’ figure out how he’s doing this. Shaky footage of the machine in action is no substitute for a diagram and explanation of the process.

It looks like great work, though.

Posted at 8:04 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by jakdedert

Unwinding a little spool of wire like that isn’t a big deal… but doing it that way with a 2LB or 5LB spool of wire and you will stretch it out of spec or break the wire. Luckily most spools of wire are meant to be un-wound from the end… meaning you can set the large spool vertical and run the wire up to your device / tensioner.

Posted at 8:31 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by Adam Ziegler

took me a few time watching it but after that I found it a very interesting project. would have found something like this of use when winding some big coils for a electromagnet. Nice work

Posted at 8:44 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by cirictech

Have you seen the site his forum posts are on though? The site is regarding this ridiculous “invention”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/water_fuel_cell

Posted at 9:22 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by TheKhakinator

heh… found this on that forum… “if you don’t think a one world government is being planned covertly, by powerful special interest groups i pray that you’ll open your eyes. the proof is everywhere.”
I love those places… they are magically delicious

Posted at 11:30 pm on Jun 20th, 2009 by RandomGuy

It may have been a good idea to embed one of the videos that actually show the device WORKING, and actually winding a coil, not the video that just shows it spooling some wire onto a drum.

Posted at 8:29 am on Jun 21st, 2009 by EdZ

i don’t quite understand how someone can build an automatic toroidal winding machine but not be able to figure out how to hold a camera steady or have it be close to being in focus.

Posted at 9:26 am on Jun 21st, 2009 by will d.

Video 3 is the good one. Very nicely done.

Posted at 12:05 pm on Jun 21st, 2009 by Mosheen

I must be stupid; I can’t figure out how it is grabbing and letting go of the wire on each loop.

Posted at 8:11 am on Jun 22nd, 2009 by Andrew