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Its a pitty the one you already have is not driver/drill, but having the driver will mean odd jobs around the house will be even easier as well, not having to use a screwdriver which is tiring on the hands at best. 
I too was thinking about one of those cheap dremel kits, but decided the driver feature that you get with the right drill, was more important to me than a high speed cutter.

They are kinda expensive kittyvape for a decent cordless. If all you need it for is doing wire and possibly if you want too zip a few screws into wood or small holes in walls for screws then something under £30 will be fine. With drill bit used for metal you can re-drill air-holes if too small and you can also use grinding bits to clean burr's even though it is clumsier then a dremel for this. Also you can use polishing wheel bits in them for getting a mirror finish or with a bit of 800-1200 pre-soaked wet-n-dry you can refinish atty's that you consider a bit rough, by spinning the atty on the drill(attach in chuck by using cheap 510 extension so you dont knacker the atty threads.
But i know you can get those cheap dremel type sets with about 150 pieces for about £15, with a 35,000 rpm max setting just dont think the min rpm will be suitable for doing the wire thing.

This looks pretty good on sale at screwfix High rated by people who use a trade outlet so cant be rubbish. To me it good quality and the reviews(31) cant praise it enough with 100% recomened score).
I would rather have the one above over this thing which is the best of the cheapy's on Ebay 
You know I think I am Giong to get that titan as my MacAllister is 6 years old has 1 knackered battery and 1 that will only work well for 1 hour, and that titan looks the biz for my needs.

The Ni-Cd batteries with that are pretty good for power tools and give a consistent amount of voltage and power at high amps during the whole discharge time.(not just at start like Li-ion)
Can suffer Memory effect but only if constantly recharged before full discharge has occurred, so just use battery until it runs out.

We are now talking power tools not Mods to anyone who thinks I am recommending Ni-Cd for Mods

Think a Dremel may be a bit too fast for wire twisting, better off with a drill that has speed control of a screwdriver/drill speeds.#
Good first efforts kittyvape you may find this tip handy.

You know when you unwind the wire off the spool and it sits on table all wrapped around and around in a mess and cant really be straighten with fingers?

Take one end and grip it in the center of the 'chuck' on the drill and grip the other end with pliers, hold taught'ish and fire up the drill slowly and build a little more speed keeping the wire taught and stop after about 5-6 seconds on a 4ft piece of wire.

When you release the tension you will have big piece of wire that is as straight as a train-track.
Helps get all wire same length and neat and evenly tensioned and parallel  before twisting together.

What you need to avoid is indicated in pic below

The Offending twist is caused by the 3 wires looking like the lines I have draw in. every time the wire does this, you get that.
More noticeable as it gets a tighter twist but there regardless of how tight the twist is and will cause a hot or cold spot.
Keep it up Kitty.


One from the TETLEY collection