Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns
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Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns
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#2A quick googling says that lego knitting machines have been built. Now it's just to program them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV19wqtfyF0
Is it only a matter of time before you can get generative AI to create a pattern based on a prompt and then some service mails gift wraps and mails it to you/friend (along with video of the lego machine making it)? Just in time for the holiday season :D
Added: there are lots of internet discussions about how crochet, unlike knitting, cannot be automated. But deeper digging turns up a company called Comez and a company called Taiwan Dahu that seem to make massive industrial ones.
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Re: Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns
#4A quick googling says that lego knitting machines have been built. Now it's just to program them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV19wqtfyF0 Is it only a matter of time before you can get generative AI to create a pattern based on a prompt and then some service mails gift wraps and mails it to you/friend (along with video of the lego machine making it)? Just in time for the holiday season :D Added: there are lots of…
Programmable (punch cards I think) sliding knitting machines were a thing in the past (70s or 80s). They occasionally pop up for free on FB marketplace or little on ebay and such.
Or perhaps you had to flick switches instead of punch cards?
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So I was not the only one strongly expecting furry involvement.
Re: Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns
#6A quick googling says that lego knitting machines have been built. Now it's just to program them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV19wqtfyF0 Is it only a matter of time before you can get generative AI to create a pattern based on a prompt and then some service mails gift wraps and mails it to you/friend (along with video of the lego machine making it)? Just in time for the holiday season :D Added: there are lots of…
Programmable (punch cards I think) sliding knitting machines were a thing in the past (70s or 80s). They occasionally pop up for free on FB marketplace or little on ebay and such. Or perhaps you had to flick switches instead of punch cards?
Punch-configured textiles go all the way back to the 1700s! The 1804 Jacquard Loom, which used cards, was a big part of the Industrial Revolution and influenced Babbage's Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, both of which use punchcards.
More background: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
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#7I am not into kitting at all but the Megaman example is pretty cool. :D
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#8Why did I expect a terminal emulator
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#9You have to admire the full-circle of history about this. Arguably, the first stored programs were created in the 1820s to automate Jacquard looms. The looms used a series of punch cards to automate the weaving of complex patterns. The system helped inspire Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Now 200 years later, we get Knotty. Very satisfying, in a holistic interconnectedness sort of way.
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#10Some say the Jacquard machine was the first real computer using punched cards