11 - Mechanical & machine design

This week we made in Leon the HILO Spinning Machine with upgrade parts.

Last weekend, from April 1 to 3, we moved to the Fab Lab in León to carry out our group practice, and manufacture the HILO Spinning Machine.

The machine we decided to make belongs to studio HILO. studio hilo is defined as a Berlin-based studio for textile innovation. They rethink the textile industry by offering open tools, training and consultancy for small-scale textile manufacturing environments. HILO’s mission is to create playgrounds for independent yarn production. The HILO Spinning Machine (and Software) is an open source project by Studio HILO and allows users to produce their own customized yarn.

HILO studio has several open source machines to manufacture, in our case we manufacture the HILO Spinning Machine. The HILO Spinning Machine with its open-source software brings local yarn manufacturing into your workshop. You can choose your raw material, design the yarn properties and produce customized yarns on the spot.

Assigments

• group assignment:
  
  • design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation+application
    
  • build the mechanical parts and operate it manually
    
  • document the group project and your individual contribution
    
  • actuate and automate your machine
    
  • document the group project and your individual contribution
    

Group Assigment

We have grouped all the development of the machine as well as information on the components necessary to manufacture the Hilo machine on the following website.

You can access the website with all the project documentation here

Individual Assigment

Once in León we assembled the machine during the weekend, throughout the process Pablo Pastor and I participated equally in the pending tasks to be done.

Starting from the original design, we realized that we could replace parts with printed parts, so both Pablo and I designed in parallel the parts that we thought would be easily replaceable.

After assembling the machine and verifying that it worked correctly, we did the entire documentation process, in this process I was in charge of designing the web and video and Pablo helped me with the texts and the slide of the project.

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