Automated Mesh Weaving Machine
There's a platform in the center of this big room, you stand on it and this light shines on you. This is the part where you have to hold perfectly still, because if you don't, you might mess up the model they're making. What's going on is this machine is making a model of you to weave a garment over. Guaranteed perfect fit, by the way. The threads are synthetic and engineered to maintain your ideal body temperature. Me, for example, it's keeping warm. T'zim-Sha, it's keeping cold. If you need to take it off it peels apart at certain places, some you might expect and some not. They're kind of like seams. (Here Ta'zhen peels apart lengthwise the mesh garment covering her arm. It comes apart with a thin point of purple light. When she releases it, it seals back up. It appears nothing had ever happened.) If it gets cut anywhere else you'll have to get it fixed up.The automated mesh weaving machine is very much a descendant of the Loom, operating completely independently of Stenza hands to weave fabric directly over a rendering of an individual. It sees wide use in the Stenza military, weaving Insulating Mesh to form an under layer for Battle Armor, and mesh garments in yellow for pups as a base for their Environmental Protection Suits. However, automated weaving machines are completely unknown outside of these contexts; Stenza seem to favor traditional weaving for almost all other fabrics.
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The automated weaving machine still requires a room to itself, in part to accommodate Stenza adults who can reach almost eight feet tall. The platform is connected to an army of sensors in the floor, walls, and ceiling, which control a 360-degree scanner which captures a life-size representation of the individual. This data is sent to an adjoining room, where a series of shuttles and robot arms which pull dozens of threads into a complete bodysuit guaranteed to fit almost perfectly.
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I love that this is a step further than a traditional loom. Technology! \o/ I like that the Stenza still prefer a traditional loom though.
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Technology has its place, but there's also a lot of moving parts and you know how pups can be.