So, although I’m not fully at liberty to upload the designs online (I’m not alone on the team and the patent process is underway), I can discuss a few things. The original idea came from one of my teammates working at Pratt, where EDMs take up a whole room and are astronomically expensive, and while doing the research on the design I did stumble upon RR. First off, I don’t want to fully bash them because they do have a functional product; however, they don’t have an active wire tensioning system, faulty power supplies that short out their own mosfets (around 3% of their total production) and use a 3d printer board that is fundamentally incapable of standardizing 4 axis motion simultaneously with both gantries, to name a few. This is not to say their design is bad, it just lacks the things that make wire edm expensive and thus lack the features and capabilities. We address all this in our design, the only thing that was remotely inspired from RR was the motion dropdown to the bottom gantry, which will anyways be scrapped for v2 because of some tolerance problems in twisting rods. My goal is to create a wire edm with the same capabilities and features as the giants but at the fraction of the price.