Month: July 2019

When: 30 July 2019, 8:30am Members present: All (including Tony and Qi Jie and Guo Yao!!!) HAPPY CONVOCATION QI JIE AND GUO YAO! 🎊🎊 Final Presentation We had our final presentation in the morning (as usual). You can find the link to presentation here! Since it’s our final presentation, Dr Ho requested that we present […]

When: 29 July 2019, 10am Members present: All LAST DAY BEFORE PRESENTATION! A bittersweet feeling… But we still have work to do 🙁 Thankfully we have the blessings of all our friends – Ozone, Bingsoo, Min Htoo’s penguin and Birdbird! All our friends! Here’s what we have planned out for today: Track RPM of jabbing […]

When: 26 July 2019, 12:30pm Members present: Carissa, Claudia, Vanessa (and Alexis – she worked from home today!) Tasks for today: Rewire our machine such that all components are powered by the existing internal power supply of the Ender 3 3D Printer. Organise wires to minimise clutter. Finish up presentation slides and start work on […]

When: 25 July 2019, 1pm Members present: All We’re finally back to M&T after three long days of CN Yang FOP! NEW | 3D Printed Embroidery Base While we were at orientation the past three days, Tony helped us to collect our 3D printed base! Our new 3D printed base, collected by Tony! Today we […]

When: 19 July 2019, 10am Members present: All 🙂 Here’s what we need to get done: ADMIN Confirm project title with Qian Xin (19/07 2pm) Technical contributions doc (24/07) Final presentation slides (30/07) 1-2 min video (08/08) A1 project poster (08/08) PROJECT Tidy up wiring Solve overheating of yarn feeding stepper motor Closed for cleaning […]

When: 18 July 2019, 10am Members present: Carissa, Claudia, Vanessa (all the best at your alumni sharing, Alexis!) Despite yesterday’s setbacks, we’re up early, ready to tackle today’s challenges: Test the new base calibration to see if we can get a consistent print. (morning) Check if the tubing is really too short, i.e. test-print using one […]

When: 17 July 2019, 10am Members present: All Based on yesterday’s progress, here’s what we’ll be working on: Manually remove the G-code for subsequent layers so that the print stops automatically after the first layer. (morning) OR Set the layer height to be the same height of the product so that only one layer prints […]

When: 16 July 2019, 8.50am Members Present: All Update Meeting #4 For the fourth (and final) time, we had our presentation in the morning. You can find the link to presentation here! This time, here’s what each of us presented on today: Alexis Recapped our project Problem #1: Inaccurate Yarn Felting Problem #2: Incorrect Yarn […]

When: 15 July 2019, 1pm Members present: All Today we have a special guest in lab – Ozone! Ozone enjoying his time in M&T lab with the minis.  Here’s what we plan to do today under Ozone’s supervision: Assemble our yarn tension set-up (with feeding spool) Complete our slides for Update #4 tomorrow Testing speed […]

When: 12 July 2019, 10:30am Members present: All Aim for today: PIZZA! 🍕 …and trying out different types of prints with our awesome embroidery machine! And possibly adding in our automated yarn spool! Problem | Testing the printer with larger prints After yesterday’s success, we were excited to try something bigger and better – a […]