Highlights of the Week

Welcome back! The Stitch Studio team has been working hard on all fronts to push the project forward. Let me show you some highlights from the past week!

On the software side, we started working on the stepper motor controller and the piece that parses and sends g-code commands from the laptop to the machine. On the mechanical side, Yaning and Rachel fabricated the stepper motor mounts for the base plate as well as the two other acrylic plates.

On the electrical side, Frank started testing the zero cross detection circuit so that we can control the speed of our sewing machine. Lastly, our stepper motor test was a smashing success! Watch this quick demo that I put together:

What’s Next?

Here’s what we plan to do this week:

  • Finish up mechanical tasks for the frame like drilling and expanding holes (so we can finally put most of the pieces together!)
  • Continue building and testing circuits
  • Test out and refine stepper motor controller and g-code communication

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Ben