Handy Stitch Teardown and Redesign
The Handy Stitch is a handheld sewing machine boasting self-proclaimed ease-of-use and fast, fun sewing. In an engineering design class, I was tasked with assessing these claims - conducting a complete product teardown; examining intended and off-nominal uses through task analyses; understanding inputs and outputs through function structure diagrams; and developing a concept of operations to see whether the machine's actual usability lived up to that which was marketed. Following the teardown, I modeled each component - excluding washers and screws - in SolidWorks and created a functioning assembly. The renders were done in Fusion360.
