Posted February 17, 201411 yr Not at all pure LEGO, but after a while I gave up trying to emulate a real sewing machine mechanism, and just went "embellishing" a real machine. Therefore, this is more of an "NXT-assisted" embroidery, than a pure solution. It's still a rather rough prototype, but it has proven the concept as worth the R&D. The X-Y fabric movements are simple - I've had much more trouble motorizing the handwheel (absolutely no grip, and occasionally huge torque required). Needle movements are imported from a program EmbroiderModder. Finally, some embroidered Classic Space, Technic and NXT logos for my bags and blank baseball caps :). A bit of extra text is here, and a YouTube video . Result that came out of the prototype after about 30 minutes of work... (the rusty old look is intentional - it can be avoided by using top and bottom threads of identical colours, rather than white & brown). Edited February 20, 201411 yr by Legoism
February 19, 201411 yr Oh wow. As the owner of an "embroidery/sewing" machine, I can only wonder in amazement. I had to replace the backlight in my machine and was absolutely fascinated by what goes on inside. I take my hat off to you, but think I'll stick with embroidery machine upstairs, Lego downstairs.
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