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 Automaknit


                           

Project description

Automoknit is a project I made to show the process of knitting in an engaging way, the brief was to learn a skill and then use that skill to teach. Throughout this project is used an arduino for the first time and attempted to pass a string from Python to Aruino Which I never quite managed!!



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I started work developing ways in which I could ‘hack’ a knitting machine without touching the machine itself.Instead opting to control the material as it entered the machine with an RGB feed (CMYK now I think about it)that could change the quantities of each colour based on the pixel needed making is possible to knit any colour, effectively turning it into a printer

Also an important part to work out was how I would get the users pattern to the machine. The best idea I had was for a camera to capture their pattern as an image and separate each pixel into either black or white depending on its brightness and convert this array into a string, essentially turning and image into a peice of thread that could be spun back into an image by my machine.







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