Braiding machine - video

[Jon]

Braiding machine. By Interesting Engineering. 4:43 video:

Previously:

Maypole braiding machine - GIF
Cheese braiding machine - GIF
Hair braiding machine - GIF
metal hose braiding GIF

[N00b Machinist]

If the motors are running continuously, why steppers and controllers and such?

[yrralguthrie]

Interesting, but useless.

[Unkle Fuzzy]

Variable speed for both the shuttles and the bobbin.

[Nitrous]

Hardly useless. The question is how difficult would it be to put 3 or 4 more bobbins to the system? This would be perfect for making Lenz Wire.
Great project. Any thought of making the code and design available? Thanks for sharing this. Doug

[wizard69]

Pretty slick! I would be nice to see a better view of how the bobbing shuttles move form one ring to the other. If nothing else it just increases my interest in 3D printing, there are some cool parts printed here.

[Tooler2]

The interesting part is how the figure eight motion is achieved and I did not catch that from this video.