The goal of this project was to design a device that could assist novice to intermediate quilters in their creative design process by allowing users to visualize their designs digitally while maintaining the more familiar, tangible actions of creating on a design wall. We created a prototype based on the existing live web-based quilting software, Code Crafters, with the added element of a physical design mat that communicated using the latest WebUSB microcontroller communication standard. We used web-based software alongside the design mat to detect changes from the user and reflect them in software. We built this system using the Arduino Leonardo microcontroller, embroidered conductive thread, an LED matrix, and an innovative design of multiplexers and magnets to determine patch orientation. This design met the team’s success criteria of Software Communication, User Interaction, and Design Functionality that was derived from system engineering concepts.

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Creator

• Charron, Jenna
• Mikolajczyk, Kyle
• Morgan, Noelle

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 52306
• E-project-032122-101541

Keyword

• Quilt
• Computational Craft
• Systems Engineering
• eTextile
• Fabric Controller
• WebUSB

Advisor

• Bhada, Shamsnaz Virani
• Smith, Gillian Margaret

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-03-21

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright