Connects Directly to Computer via USB Cableīy allowing you to use your own computer, this unique innovation gives you the same capabilities of other embroidery machines at a fraction of the cost.
With a live internet connection, if an update is detected, it will automatically download to your desktop and await installation.
You can set the embroidery software to check for updates manually or on a set schedule.
Installation software comes on a handy CD. Letters can be sized, rotated and shaped with lettering frames such as arc, banner, wave and more.Ĭreate big, bold letters using a running or satin stitch. Select from 5 embroidery fonts to personalize or monogram your projects. One icon click in the embroidery software sends the design to your machine Using the embroidery software, you can resize a design, letters or delete part of a design to meet your needs.
The included embroidery software will read these design file types: FHE, XXX, JEF, CHE, HUS, PES, DST, SHV, PEC, EXP, VIP, PCS, PSW & SEW.
Includes a 10" X 6" large hoop, 4" X 4" small hoop and 6.75" X 4" endless hoopĮasily creates free motion quilting effects with embroidery. Large multiple hoop embroidery designs can be easily created on screen providing the sewer with the capability to precisely match stitches and designs. More detailed documentation of these TODO, see experiments/usb-bird-bit.cpp or send-path/ small hoop, large hoop and 20 endless designsĬreate beautiful border and edging designs in this 6.75" X 4" hoopĮasily create designs larger than one hoop.
Once send-path has sent the path to the machine, it will wait forever, dumping information about machine status codes. Owing to limitations of the control protocol, paths must contain at least two needle-downs and subsequent positions may differ by no more than 28 (0x1c) machine units in either coordinate. (Note that values can be in decimal 123, octal 0123, or hex 0x123.) For example, this will draw a box of side length 8 using five needle-downs: The send-path utility reads (and sends to the machine) a whitespace-separated lists of pairs of integers in this range. The send-path utility (in the send-path folder) can be used to send a path to the embroidery machine.Ī path is a list of needle-down locations, expressed in integer machine coordinates.įor the large embroidery hoop, these coordinates range from (0xfeb8,0xfe1b) at the lower left to (0xffff,0xffff) at the upper right, for a total sewing area size of 328x485 machine units.
This git repository holds documentation about the USB communication protocol used by the machine and a small libusb-based command line utility that can send paths to the machine from Linux, MacOS, and - likely - Windows hosts. (Though we have had success running the software inside a Windows XP virtual machine.) Unfortunately, the software that comes with these machines requires Windows XP, and does not work on Linux, MacOS, or (reportedly) modern versions of Windows. These machines are controlled by a host computer that connects over USB
Today, they are often available second hand for around two hundred dollars. The Singer Quantum Futura CE 200 is an computer-controlled single-needle embroidery machine from the early 2000's.