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.

ToDo

Concept

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

Progress

sewing machine repair concept sewing machine to cnc machine hand wheel triggered limit switch secret limit switch input embroidery frame mounting mounting with installed embroidery frame

Links

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