alt Hacker NewsCNC wire benders exist, but they're solving a different problem: They bend the wire in free space, not on to a surface. You would have to design the part and the wire such that the part never comes around into the space occupied by the head, which would limit it to only very basic and small shapes.
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Xmd5a • last Monday at 4:30 PM
Maybe lay chains instead of wires. Apply tension to the chain, ensuring that it conducts current and use fast solidifying glue to fix it in place/make it adhere to the surface/insulate it.
I was thinking you'd print a channel where the wire would be placed, bend the wire to the shape of the channel, place it, and print over the top.
Some geometries wouldn't work, but it would be sufficient to make shapes like you see in breadboard connections (up, zigzag around, down)