Re: very basic Sewing-Machine

Peter did not have the information needed for me to write a family-tree of the extruder-designs currently floating around.

So...since we have so many people joining this thread. Who is the first to come up with a printable lower part of a machine? It can be done horizontal (like cheap plastic machines) or vertical like conventional ones.
I've already taken apart enough cheap plastic machines capable of only one stich but very simple in design.
So I could probably make the mechanics to have the upper part move in sync.

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Who would be interested in designing a VERY BASIC sewing machine with me?
(It´s not THAT hard. Only 2 parts that are somewhat complex in shape.
Synchronjisation of upper and lower part is trivial as simle one turn of the axis
is one cycle.)
[craftydaisies.com]

I have a trivial sewing machine here that is mostly made out of plastic with
very simple mechanics.
If we can design the printable bobbin in some parametric modeller,
we can have a working sawing machine in no time. That would be a starting-
point, so specialized machines or even a toolhead for embroidery can be designed.
Marcus

Marcus, sorry, if I got a little ranty and political there; I've snipped that stuff out of the thread and moved it because I figured it would get in the way of actual mechanical design, I hope that's ok.

By way of apology, you may find this helpful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jbk1uU_Jkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNRuUr4hlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9V8W6tV40
via http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/

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-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.

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Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!

Here's a good place to document the project:

[reprap.org]

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-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.

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Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!

You create a wiki-page for a project that does not exist yet with no proper categorisation and hardly any content.
Please update or remove it.
This project never started because no people where found to start it.

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Done.

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-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.

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Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!

Has anyone created a github project for this? I am interested in all manner of reprappable home appliances, and specifically with sewing machine mechanics as they relate to potentially 'weaving' conductive thread during extrusion.

Why github?
Github is good for source-code but hardly the place for CAD.
Noone else uses github for 3d designs.
What makes you think that suddenly people willing to work on this will be found just because an empty project with no content and noone working on it is present on a platform that is not widely used for this kind of designs?

If you want to work on it, please go ahead.

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