CNC Sewer

• Maintainer: yomin
• Date: 2013-11-03
• Status: ongoing

The CNC Sewer will combine a sewing machine with our cnc milling machine. The result will be a sticking like operation.

• buy sewing machine
• repair sewing machine
• concept whether and how to move fabric or machine
• get missing parts
  • embroidery frame
• build
  • cnc machine mounting
  • embroidery frame to mounting
  • get motor working
• concept to program machine
• manual

• sewing machine fix, embroidery frame moves
• limited to ~15cm diameter embroideries
• sync of cnc and sewing machine
  • hand wheel triggered limit switch
  • mach3 knows whether needle down or up
  • conditional gcode waiting for needle up
• creating gcode
  • knitting machine software with Melco exp format (eg. embroider for inkscape)
  • own tool exp2gco, converts exp code, adds conditional limit switch code

• http://hackaday.com/2014/06/10/diy-embroidery-machine-sews-your-name-in-your-undies/