STEAM Coding - TurtleStitch

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Over the break, I worked on paper embroidery to determine my motion compared to the motion of the digital embroiderer. I noticed the machine first sewed three circles and then continuously sewed three more circles that overlapped the last. When I sewed onto the paper, I didn't think of sewing the same way. I sewed circles that skipped after each other. With the holes I punctured onto the paper, I sewed a circle, and then I skipped over one circle and went for the next. This sounds confusing, but I am attaching a photo documentation of what I did and what the machine did! What do you think causes the machine to embroider three circles in the first "layer"? Is it the code? Machine's process: My process:    

As I stated in a previous blog post, I wanted to examine the stitches when the machine is in motion. This week I am planning on working with paper embroidery, so I could sew onto cardstock and become the machine myself. I will then print the code onto fabric, compare the motion and look at how the stitches come together.

I want to learn more about different blocks so I could add onto my old code, so I am starting with operators . I am planning on finding out what would happen if I replace most of my numbered values to operators . The picture on the right was what happened when I replaced the second repeat variable with pick random 1 to 10 . I guess the shape of the circle changed since the blocks inside the second repeat were the codes that created the circle, which appeared previously. The random amount of repetition prevented the turtle from creating a full circle and I find it really interesting. The picture on the left looks like random zigzags across the stage. I believe this happened because most of my operators consisted of pick random _ to _ and they defined the turn clockwise _ degrees . I think the pick random _ to _  is not good for creating a certain image because the outcome of the stitching varies each time the code runs. What do you think would happen if I change the pick r...

For this code, I removed the extra "move 10 steps" block from the inner repeat block and I changed the outer repeat block to 7. This made the diameter of my circles smaller, but it didn't come together to create a full circle. If I wanted my design to look like a complete circle, I would change the "repeat 7" to "repeat 28" or a number greater than 7, which means that there would be a greater rotation of circles to form a design similar to the original design: I thought about changing the "move 10 steps" variable to 20, but I soon realized it changed the length of the jumps within the stitches. In my next trial, I adjusted the "turn clockwise 90 degrees block" to 180 degrees and the repeat to 11. I noticed how the turtle/arrow moved differently compared to my other trials. In the other trials, the circles were created next to each other, but for this code with 180 degrees, the circles were created across from each other. ...