All Digital Fabrication
Emoji fabrication
The purpose of this assignment was to gain familiarity with Adobe Illustrator by drawing up an (existing) emoji and preparing files for the laser and digital embroidery machines respectively.
I used the disguised_face emoji because I
Embroidery
To use the embroidery machine in the FabLab (Brother SE400), I first opened my file as an SVG in Inkscape. Then, I ungrouped all the parts. Text and rectangle objects have to be converted to paths but I didn't have any in my design. I then used the Embroider extension to
Laser file:
The left side of the nose is a cut line because I thought the burn marks would add a nice shadow. The mustache is hatched instead of solid for variety in texture.
