Welcome to Team Peanuts’ update blog for the module PS9888 Making & Tinkering, AY18/19 Summer. We’ll try to be as active as possible here to document our process. Before you get lost navigating the many pages of this blog, here are some quick navigation links with explanations about each page.
Thanks for visiting and we hope that you’ll be back often π !!
| Introduction | A welcome page with some blog navigation tips, calendar, and project introduction. |
| Progress | Summary of what’s accomplished each meeting and the links to the respective posts. |
| Updates | View all our meeting posts here! |
| Process | Steps of how to convert an Ender 3D Printer into a 2D Embroidery Machine. |
| Prototyping Log | A record of all our 3D printing prototypes. |
| About Us | Meet our four quirky team members!!! |
π Our Project π‘
When we made Claudia’s stuffed toy octopus in Autodesk Fusion360, we were disheartened to realise that we would never see it materialised as an actual soft toy. That’s the nature of most common 3D printers: the output materials are solid, typically plastic or metal. After conducting some online research, we discovered that Walt Disney Studios had actually released a research paper on how to print 3D stuffed toys. Inspired by this, we wanted to find a way to convert a Ender 3 3D Printer to perform 2D felting embroidery in a cheap and simple manner.
β Our vision is to unite art and science to produce an open-source embroidery printer!
Future Work/Applications
- 3D embroidery
- Tattoo ink machine
- Stippling artwork
βοΈ Calendar of Updates π