Initially, I had a lot of trouble getting control of the sewing machine, but as I kept going through the samples, I began to get better. I had…

These are the basic samples, really only had an issue with the circle and not having the stitches small enough to move better. Everything else was fine when…

I explored tension levels 0 to 9 on my sewing machine. You can see as we get the higher levels (6 and above), there’s some breakage in the…

Hand Sewing Samples This assignment was a lot of fun for me, mostly because my experience with hand-sewing has been putting buttons back onto shirts. I’ve never learned…

Here is how I actuated my servo syringe and pneumatic device: No matter what configuration I put the servo horn and paper clip in, the servo would abruptly…

For the devices. I wanted to attach a floral bow tie, to give some dimension and flight to it, by making the servo move up and down and…

My approach for this aspect of the assignment was to attach the corners of the fabric with tendons to various holes of the horn. Then, I used a…

I only had a little bit of success activating my hobby servo… but I was able to slightly inflate my previous pneumatic project! I had a lot of…

My sensors were a success! Starting with just a piece of the velostat and some tape, I was able to successful create a pressure sensor. Then I went…