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 […]
[#5] Building a 3D Printer
When: 30 May 2019, 9.30am to 12pm Members present: Alexis, Claudia, Vanessa Tony was gracious enough to give us an Ender 3 3D Printer to assemble. All the parts were still in its delivery box, untouched and ready to be built into something more. The 3D Printer kit even came with all the basic tools […]
[#4] First Meet-up with Supervisor
When: 16 May 2019, 11am to 12pm Members present: Claudia, Vanessa, Carissa We met up with our supervisor, Mr. Leong Hanyang, a person who is working in the field of 3D printing. During our meet-up, we finalized our project direction, which is to focus on building a 2D embroidery machine rather than a 3D embroidery […]
[#3] Computer-controlled Electronics Lessons
Computer Controlled Electronics Lesson 1/3 When: 13 May 2019, 2.00PM – 5.00PM Members present: Claudia, Vanessa In this lesson, we learnt about hardware, software, firmware and other electronic parts. Some examples include Arduino, Cura, RAMPS1.4, stepper motors, controllers and thermostats. This lesson gave us a basic introduction into the functions of the various software and […]
[#2] 3D Printing Lesson
When: 10 May 2019, 2pm Members present: All This 3D Printing lesson was taught by Hanyang Leong. He started off with the basics, such as what 3D Printing is and the idea behind how it works. He detailed its uses and it was a great introduction for students who only knew vaguely of the concept. We […]
[#1] First Discussion with Dr Ho
When: 26 March 2019, 3.30pm Members present: All After a few weeks of online discussion and research, our team had brainstormed a number of ideas for what we could do for our Making & Tinkering project. These included building a live 3D bioprinter, specific GPS tagging, solar-powered and -generated ink printer, solar-powered charging ports, smart […]