turtle stitch--

🐢 the #python turtle library
🧩 block based programming
🧵 outputs patterns for machine embroidery

seems like a useful way to teach programming to kids, with tangible results!

turtlestitch.org

Also w/ machine embroidery: you need to think about what happens when the pattern hits your machine.

* will the 'resolution' work out?
* are you likely to snag at certain points?

reminds me of Q's when putting code into production (e.g. is it reliable, performant?)

Probably more important, though: it looks nice and you can wear it around