Garage Automation Project – revisited
It’s been a while since I revisited the GAP, I have tried a couple of things since the last post, but none of them were successful. However, since I bought my 3D printer 18 months ago, I have been trying …
Category: 3D printing
Digital Singer 319k part two
In this post below I started the journey towards my dream machine, a vintage Singer 319K with a digital motor controller. I got to a working prototype stage, then stupidly plugged a normal power cable into the machine, not realizing …
Digital Singer 319K
I have never put a post into so many categories as this one. It involves an Arduino microprocessor, programming in C++, lots of 3D printing, and my latest sewing machine, a Singer 319K swing needle from 1957. My three main …
Final Fashion Disc pattern for Singer 306 confirmed
It’s been a labour of love for the last few weeks, redesigning all the Singer Type A Fashion Discs from varying quality stitch samples, pictures from manuals and from the pattern printed on the disc in some cases. One disc …
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More fashion disks for my 306k
Following on from previous posts about Fashion Disks I have been researching into the Elna Supermatic and SU sewing machines and the discs that they use. I have never seen an example of one of these disks, but there is quite …
Fashion Discs – 3D printing and 306K Sewing machine
Following from 3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs below, a whole bunch of stuff has happened. Firstly I have created numerical designs of all 33 Type A Fashion Discs (1 through 32 and 37), basically a stitch position from …
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3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs
Back ground I have spent a very happy few days combining my two main hobbies at the moment, namely rescuing/restoring a Singer 306K Automatic Swing-Needle Sewing Machine, and learning as much about 3D design and 3D printing as I …
Singer 306K – crossover into 3d printing!
My Creality Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer is pretty well used, not so much for decorative knick knacks, but for useful things, repairs to objects,extending the use of thing etc. I have got it sorted out and can print …
Lithophanes
My first Lithophane, using Corel PhotoPaint 12 to crop and modify the image, and Cura slicer to convert the image into a .STL file for printing in white PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE print. My second one …
3D printing progress
#3DBenchy My best 3dbenchy of 3. Printed in Creality PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE and the culmination of a couple of weeks refettling and retuning the printer. I bought the printer in December 2024 as a gift …