When: 2 July 2019 Members present: All Update Meeting #3 We got interrupted π … With compliments! The slides can be viewed here. Alexis Recapped our project introduction, rationale, vision Recapped what was accomplished in Update #2 Updated product design Introduced the 4 main components Claudia Sewing Module Needle-Tubing Connector Main Body Yarn Feeder Carissa […]
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[#15] A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
When: 21 June 2019, 10am Members present: All Mobile Stabbing Needle Piece Main Body Mk II When roughly assembled, this is how our current prototype looks like. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start. The Good The Bad The Needle-Tubing Connector Mk IV fits perfectly inside the Main Body Mk II half and is […]
[#14] Prototype Stereotype
When: 20 June 2019, 10am Members present: All The Main Body Mk I Our Main Body Mk II printed out overnight all right! It was pretty successful for a (technically) first print. We tried it out and it worked just as planned. The grooves were perfect for the protruding screws. Note that the cuboid cavity […]
[#13] Update Progress Meeting 2; More Morning Meetings & Modeling
When: 19 June 2019, 8.50am Members present: All Update Meeting #2 Even with the new project type groupings, our group was still 6th to present today, out of all 6 of the “Machines/Human Hand” type projects.Β And it appears that our group is forever-cursed with morning slot presentations π … You can view our presentation […]
[#12] Making Ends Meet
When: 18 June 2019, 1pm to 7.30pm Members present: All We decided to settle our hardware first before figuring out the software (to Tony’s admonishment)! So this session was mainly spent discussing and designing the hardware we needed to get the project working. Needle + Tubing “Connector” Next, we began figuring out how we […]
[#10] Testing Prints, 1 2 3 …
When: 10 June 2019, 12.30pm Members present: All The embroidery hoop base has been printed successfully! We cut out some recycled styrofoam to fill out the foam base for the needle to stab into, and fastened the base to our 3D printer. It fit perfectly. Now we have a solid base! Embroidery Hoop Mk […]
[#9] Circumference of Circumstances
When: 7 June 2019, 1pm Members present: All And our hoop was fully printed! We cut out a circular styrofoam bed from the styrofoam from the 3D printer packaging, that fits snugly within the hoop. This allows the needle to safely stab downward through our cloth. … However, we faced some issues with Hoop Mk […]
[#8] Update Progress Meeting 1; Never Felt This Way Before
When: 6 June 2019, 8.50am to 6.30pm Members present: All Update Meeting #1 Our group was the 6th to present in the morning slot. You can view our slides here. Alexis Description, Vision Future Work Expenditure Claudia Timeline Preliminary Design (Hoop base) Vanessa Preliminary Design (Needle movement) Printer Design Specifications Carissa Work Allocation Felting Technique […]
[#7] Embroiled with Embroidery
When: 4 June 2019, 12.30 pm Members present: All We met in SPMS to further discuss our project, especially after Alexis brought home the embroidery materials we bought from Spotlight yesterday to test them out. Punch Needle Considerations Alexis taught the others how to thread the punch needle, which requires two uses of the […]
[#6] Punching, Polygon-Printing, Procuring
When: 3 June 2019, 1.30pm to 4.30pm Members present: All Today we met up in SPMS to discuss a number of different things on our agenda! Softwares & Type of Sewing We discussed our findings from the weekend. We found many different types of software online, both for embroidery and felting. Some of them […]