Machines I designed and built. Each one was drawn by software on the Software shelf rather than clicked together in a drawing program, which means the design can be tested the way code is tested — and that it can be wrong in ways a drawing never is.
The long version of how each one went is in the Build log.
Halo — high aperture, low overhead. A seven-foot ring that wraps tape around anything you can slide through it. The trade has several names for this machine and they all mean the same motion: an orbital wrapper, a ring wrapper, a horizontal orbital strapper, or just a panel strapper. The work stands still and the tape orbits it. Commercial ones start in the tens of thousands of dollars and are built for a production line. This is the shop-built version: sheet offcuts, four skate wheels, and a hand crank. ...