Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
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Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
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Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#2Brother kh-930e
They are $700 to $900 on eBay.
You use a Python proggy to emulate a Tandy floppy drive with the design from a 1-bit bitmap.
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#3This is awesome!
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#4Just sent the link to a friend who has a MakerBot and also knits. I said think of it as a MakerBot using yarn as its feedstock.
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#5Does anyone know if there's a picture of Bill Cosby with the sweater?
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#6The toughest part about this is hiring Bill Cosby to stand still while you knit a sweater of him. Then have Bill Cosby put on the sweater and stand still again.
Then you knit another sweater!
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#7It's Cosbys all the way down.
Re: Knitting machine from the 80s hacked to "print" digital images
#8Brother kh-930e They are $700 to $900 on eBay. You use a Python proggy to emulate a Tandy floppy drive with the design from a 1-bit bitmap.
Yes, the interesting bit is not the Cosby sweater, but the interfacing of the knitting machine itself by emulation of a serial attached Tandy floppy drive.
http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_...