Scribbly draws embroidery patterns straight onto fabric, so a hand embroiderer can skip tracing and transfer paper. Load a file, clamp the hoop, and it draws. Nothing to install.
It was the final product for 2.009, MIT’s product engineering capstone, built by a team of more than fifteen over a semester. I was Product Form lead, responsible for the physical design of the machine.
The hard part was never the form itself. Several subsystems wanted the same interior volume, each team had a good reason, and I had no authority over any of them. What worked was making the tradeoff visible early — showing each team what their ask cost the others in the same drawing, so the argument happened over a shared model instead of over email. We shipped on time.
- CourseMIT 2.009
- RoleProduct Form lead
- Team15+
- Size22 × 18 × 7 in
- Hoop range3 to 10 in
- Accepts.jpg, .png, .svg
