StichLAB meets TurtleStitch - Paul-Reza Klein, Walter Lunzer (prntr)

Introducing StichLAB, an OpenSource DIY Embroidery Maschine featuring TurtleStich

StitchLAB is a low-cost, open-source embroidery machine created by upgrading old sewing machines with widely available DIY 3D-printer components and software. The modular hardware (3D-printed parts, Raspberry Pi) and software (Klipper) enable new and exciting ways to work with embroidery machines—whether stitching with a game controller or running TurtleStitch directly on the machine. This workshop provides insights into the development process and a hands-on experience with the machine. StitchLAB was developed by Paul-Reza Klein (Studio Praxistest), Walter Lunzer, and Ute Neuber (Department of Textiles) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

From Seashore to TurtleStitch - Beth Lloyd (lloydcrew)

How seaweed made me a better coder.

Living on the Atlantic coast in Newport, Rhode Island, I found myself getting curious about seaweed. I kept thinking, ""I should be able to embroider these beautiful specimens."" After two years, I finally figured out how to code them in TurtleStitch. Join me on this journey of discovery without even getting your feet wet!

CoderDojo - CoderDojo Tilburg

CoderDojo session for CoderDojo children

CoderDojo Tilburg

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Get Up and Running with TurtleStitch - Beth Lloyd (lloydcrew)

How well can you code with your feet?

Put down your computer, tie up your shoes, and make the world your TurtleStitch stage. All you need is a free running app to start coding with your feet. You can plan out your path or simply see where your feet take you. When you are finished, you’ll have an image of how you moved through space. This will be used to code a satisfying TurtleStitch design. Don’t be surprised to find that you are challenged to walk/run more, making TurtleStitch a part of a creative and healthy lifestyle.

Shared pattern library - Jacob Tekiela (tekiela)

Shared Library brainstrorm

A presentation of a work-in-progress library of patterns up for discussion

10 things you might not have known about TurtleStitch - Jadga Hügle (jadga)

Learn a couple of tricks in the TurtleStitch IDE that you might not yet be aware of :)

Snap! has a lot of power user features that are also available in TurtleStitch. But as it is often with these features, they aren't really discoverable if you don't already know that they are there. In this talk, I want to share 10 tips in 10 minutes of things that you might not yet be aware of that help me program in TurtleStitch or write curriculum. Learn how to translate custom blocks or create your own block libraries to share with a class, create script and IDE pictures without backgrounds, create blocks with images in the block titles and many more helpful features.

Small is beautiful - focussing on the stitch - Richard Millwood (Richard)

TurtleStitch comes with some repeating styles for stitching - can we vary as we sew?

Great aesthetic value is gained by using a computer to generate interesting graphic forms using TurtleStitch, but usually stitches which are built in to TurtleStitch are used. This talk is to explain how we can use TurtleStitch to vary the stitches themselves, so that they may change their form according to an algorithm, random chance or some linear function of their position in a line of sewing. Such a focus on the micro level is certainly found in hand sewing and may prove a fertile area for artistic and mathematical exploration.

Your Own Badge - Martine van 't Hul

Design your own badge shape, digitize it and embroider it with the machine.

Design your own badge shape, digitize it and embroider it with the machine. Then bring it to life with hand embroidery stitches.
During this workshop you will learn the basics of digitizing, machine embroidery and hand embroidery techniques.
Afterwards you will go home with your own handmade badge – perfect for repairing or decorating a garment.

Beyond remixing - Ursula Wolz (ursulawolz) (via Zoom)

Beyond remixing, preparing students to swim in open water.

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Turtle Stitch with our visual impaired students - Pauline Maas (4pipt)

Showing what is possible with our visual impaired students and turtle stitch

A talk about how we teach TurtleStitch with our visual impaired students (12-14 year) in 6 lessons. What are the challenges and what are the results. How can we implement math in the lessons? We will show the results, our material with braille. What will work for them and what will not work for them. My collegue Anniemiek van Leendert will also support me with her ideas. Her expertise is mathematics for braille students.

Chicken & Chips - Mags Amond (magsamond)

A hands-on sensemaking exercise to introduce ourselves to the role semi-conductors in electronic circuits

All computers depend on semi-conducting materials - this brief excercise might help us to understand and appreciate them.
We will form a human circuit incorporating a small chirpy chicken toy called Pieu Pieu, who will act as both input (battery) and output (chirper) in our circuit.
We will do a group investigation into conducting and non-conducting materials in simple circuits.
We will introduce ourselves to semi-conducting materials using a diode which is central to all electronic circuits. We will learn a little about these materials - their source and sustainability. Each of us can then use these materials to make and take way a personalised LED 'Glowie'.
A table for putting stuff on is the only furniture needed.
Space for standing in a circle. A supply of 3V lithium 'coin' batteries (cheapest from IKEA or some such discount store).
LEDS.Sticky tape.
Will people have name badges or some such - they can stick their 'glowies' on the badges.

Starting TurtleStitch - Cynthia Solomon (cynthiasolomon)

Cynthia and Beth will get you started

Originally this workshop was given with late Susan Klimczak and Elaine Wolfe who's attending online.

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Face Stitching - Bhavik Dodda (via Zoom) (Bhavik_Dodda)

Stich your face with a single continuous line!

Given a picture of your face or any sketch, we can turn it into an embroidery/stitch using just a single continuous line! This project has been inspired by ""Mona Lisa TSP Challenge"" by the University of Waterloo. In the talk, I'm going to cover all the necessary domain knowledge required to theoretically compute it as well as walk you through the entire pipeline of the project to go from the input image to finally exporting the .dst file, which can be imported into your sewing machine to stitch your image.

Koch Snowflake - Elaine Wolfe (via Zoom) (Elaine)

This TurtleStitch program is a recursive program

A link to the slides, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IBXjHPVGl6vBtBFvvbJIAZbq6kvitxws86n_5CLEObs/edit?usp=sharing

From Pose Detection to Stitched Patterns - Stephen Howell

Create stitched patterns using your body as the creative input, no keyboard or mouse needed!

Participants will explore how machine learning pose detection can transform physical movement into creative data streams. Using familiar Scratch blocks, we'll build projects that capture body positions and gestures, then investigate how this embodied data might translate into stitchable patterns and designs.

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Open workshop - Joek van Montfort (xota)

If you prefer doing over talking, making over listening …

Workshop space is open to all. There may be someone who wants to demo something but all can come to just learn while making together

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Instagrammable - Susan Ettenheim (via Zoom) (susanettenheim)

How to Make TurtleStitch Projects Instagram Worthy! ... and what does that really mean?

We can teach computer science through the arts.
We can make the abstract of coding and programming real and touchable with TurtleStitch.
The bigger question that remains, is how do we fill that gap between the point of making a coded TurtleStitch project and the point when a student (or any human) is so excited that they want to Instagram it? And what does that even mean?

When a project becomes personally expressive and satisfying, it is human nature to share it and isn’t that exactly what defines great learning? How do we articulate the pedagogy that creates these magic moments and why is TurtleStich a perfect companion for this mission?

This workshop proposes some concrete steps and projects to use to inspire and bridge that gap.

Your Own Badge - Martine van 't Hul

Design your own badge shape, digitize it and embroider it with the machine.

Design your own badge shape, digitize it and embroider it with the machine. Then bring it to life with hand embroidery stitches.
During this workshop you will learn the basics of digitizing, machine embroidery and hand embroidery techniques.
Afterwards you will go home with your own handmade badge – perfect for repairing or decorating a garment.

Click here to register

Computer Embroidery Partners - Margaret Minsky (margmarg)

Learning from Other ways to Design Machine Embroidery

A roundup of other experiments with other pipelines for machine embroidery. Let's learn together and discuss how these relate to TurtleStitch.

the story of a turtle who wanted to become a spider - Maria Beatrice Rapaccini (brapacc)

From weaving a spider web to coding a TurtleStitch project

In this talk, we explore the story of human creativity, starting with the myth of Arachne. We look at how weaving tools have changed over time, from hand-weaving to the invention of the Jacquard loom. We’ll see how punched cards, used in the loom, helped to inspire the first ideas of modern computing. Even though weaving and programming seem very different, they share surprising connections. By mixing old and new technologies, we show how TurtleStitch Platform supports creative collaboration, using code as a new thread of expression.

Finding Patterns in Your Environment - Jadga Hügle (jadga)

Geometry is everywhere around us - let's use it to create local, custom merchandise

For quite a while I've noticed that geometric patterns are all around us. And if you've seen them once, you can't unsee them.
In this talk, I want to share a couple of ideas from different cities and cultural backgrounds on how to use these unique geometries for generative art in TurtleStitch. How to identify patterns, recode and remix them and make custom merchandise for your city, region, school,...

Expermental mixed-media Practice - Jacob Tekiela (tekiela)

Showcasing experimental embrodey works by danish artist Jacob Tekiela

I will showcase some expermental mixed-media embroidery projects, using laserengraving, cyanotype, stencils and varied materials … using nature motifs as inspiation

TeachMeet - Mags Amond (magsamond)

Sharing random short stories in a social setting

The TeachMeet is an Open Space at which all are welcome.
Attendees are invited to put their name down to do share a short presentation (between 2 and 7 minutes approx.) in a relaxed atmosphere. There is no strict agenda. The order will be randomly chosen on the night. It is a social ocassion, at which we can learn from each other as well as relax together. Timekeeping will be strict but fun!