When: 11 July 2019, 10am Members present: All Continuing from last night, we decided to focus on the following: Troubleshooting of Marlin/stepper driver (morning) Designing the stepper motor house (for yarn spool) (morning) Test out speed of stepper motor (for yarn spool) using Arduino (afternoon) Tidy up new embroidery base (afternoon) Arrange the wires properly […]
[#28] Revolutionary Driving (going nuts!)
When: 10 July 2019, 9:45am Members present: Carissa, Claudia, Vanessa Yesterday Vanessa and Guo Yao helped us to configure the printer settings for our embroidery machine in Simplify 3D, and tested printing with the gcode formulated by Simplify 3D. It went really well, so for the rest of this week we’ll be improving on that! Here’s a […]
[#27] 2D Simplified
When: 9 July 2019 Members present: Vanessa Cura Yesterday, we re-printed our yarn feeder, main body, and needle holder. Today, we collected all of them and assembled only the yarn feeder to the main body without replacing the needle holder because it was still doing fine. Next, we continued to troubleshoot using Cura in attempt to […]
[#26] Stable Able
When: 8 July, 10am Members present: Alexis, Carissa, Vanessa Main Body (back) Mk VI & Yarn Feeder Mk IX The new Main Body (back) Mk VI and Yarn Feeder Mk IX were mounted on! The Main Body (back) Mk VI was done printing! We mounted it onto the 3D printer, along with our yarn feeder […]
[#25] Getting to the Home Base
When: 5 July 2019, 9.45am Members present: Alexis, Claudia, Vanessa (Have fun at Seniors’ Camp Carissa!!) Let’s recap what we need to do today: Get an even styrofoam base surface. Further reduce the yarn feeder base area (Direct interface to the felt; friction might be dragging thread along). Reduce the size of the opening of […]
[#24] Be There or Be Square
When: 4 July, 11am Members present: Alexis, Claudia, Vanessa (Have fun at Seniors’ Camp, Carissa!!) Yarn Feeder Mk VI (Print 2!) It printed out fine, without clogging in the guiding tubes since we printed without supports this time. It looks exactly the same as the print from yesterday so I shall reuse the image 😀 […]
[#23] Piece of Cheese-cake!
When: 3 July 2019, 1.30pm Members present: All Yesterday and this morning, Claudia and Vanessa went on shopping trips to buy some extra stuff for our project! Claudia Vanessa 5 by 20 cm styrofoam cylinder 12 by 18 cm acrylic sheet Needle threader (3pcs) Needle threader, long Yarn needles (2pcs) Florist wire Araldite Epoxy Adhesive […]
[#22] Soft(ware) Skills
When: 2 July 2019 Members present: All Update Meeting #3 We got interrupted 🙁 … 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 […]
[#21] Troublesome Troubleshoot
When: 1 July 2019 Members present: Claudia, Carissa, Vanessa Minimum Viable Product (MVP) #1 Finally, AFTER A BUNCH OF TROUBLESHOOTING (where we almost fried our Arduino), we are done with our MVP !! YAYYYY!! Modifications to our firmware (Marlin) during our troubleshooting: Firstly, we downloaded the U8glib and activated the LED interface settings. Secondly, […]
[#20] Oil’ll Fix It!
When: 28 June 2019, 1pm Members present: All LA-Tubing Connector Mk III LA-Tubing Connector Mk III. The new LA-Tubing Connector Mk III finally printed out, and it was a perfect fit onto the piston head. It was even satisfying putting it on. (Almost) Complete Prototype Testing #2 We decided to test it out and […]