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wire bonding whitepaper
mostly deals with high-frequency applications, but regardless is informative.
talks about hobbyist wirebonding with manual machines.
his wire bonding site
has pictures - not the use of small stepper motors on the wire bond movement stage.
http://w3ref.cfn.ist.utl.pt/cupido/wb_04.jpg
http://w3ref.cfn.ist.utl.pt/cupido/wb_05.jpg
-- note the use of plastic pillow blocks for movement.
he apparently works on
milimeter-wave reflectometry
for diagnosing fusion reactors.
wire bonding looks problem-prone