When: 27 June 2019, 10am Members Present: All Morning Testing! LA-Tubing Connector Mk I It only finished printing late last evening, so we’re finally getting to testing it now! Unfortunately, the moment we fit on just one half, we knew it wasn’t going to work. ☹ The piece is meant to rest on the ‘ledge’ […]
[#18] Building (Brackets) & =Tubing= Troubles
When: 26 June 2019, 10am Members present: All Assembling the LA Module ✌ LA Mount Mk III We collected our LA Mount Mk III, which finally printed out perfectly! After that, we secured the motor and piston structure to the LA mount. We faced a bit of difficulty putting in the screws due to the super […]
[#17] 原地踏步
When: 25 June 2019, 10am Members present: All LA Mount Mk II We came in the morning to find that our LA Mount Mk II finished printing, but it was bent. 😭 Trying to make the most out of the situation, we mounted our stepper motor and piston structure onto the LA mount to test […]
[#16] Linear Progression
When: 24 June 2019, 10am Members Present: Claudia, Vanessa and Carissa (Happy birthday Alexis!) Linear Actuator LA Mount Mk I Part I Claudia and Vanessa picked up from the previous meeting and started off by making more measurements to design the LA mount/bracket to fit our bigger stepper motor and the piston structure together. After […]
[#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. And it appears that our group is forever-cursed with morning slot presentations 🌞 … 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 […]
[#11] Making a Move
When: 17 June 2019, 1pm Members present: Carissa and Vanessa Today, we deconstructed the nozzle head of our 3D printer to make space for our needle! There are 2 ways to attach our needle: (1) Attach it directly to a tube, which is connected to the head of the linear actuator OR (2) Attach it to […]
[#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 […]