As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P
I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track.
different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders
I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.
Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?
Thread a flexible needle (usually called "circular") or a wire through a full row near the cut, unravel the remaining rows, then take a fine crochet hook to chain the loops together.
Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like what she does.
Circular knitting typically uses a technique called "grafting" or "Kitchener stitch" to close tubes seamlessly without unraveling - you'd temporarily secure stitches on holders, cut one strand, then use a tapestry needle to mimic the path of the yarn through the live stitches.
He retired the format a few years ago. Now he just does game shows and random projects with his friends, which...fair enough, that's what I'd do with a pile of passive YouTube income.
I doubt it would be difficult to make. You can buy the knitting machine on amazon. They usually have a handle you can crank unless it is electric. Just attach a turbine to the handle.
Oh that device should look familiar to fans of Hand Tool Rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCNaHMo2EI
Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
Same with weaving, especially the way symmetry is weft in.
Jaccard looms are too general, too unconstrained. I like shaft looms more gratifying. Their restrictions make it more interesting.
By that logic any instructions is programming and everyone on earth are programmers.
Instructions to machines probably are. Instructions to humans aren't because humans interpret things themselves and exercise free will in execution.
Written knitting instructions would benefit from a bit of standardisation and a system for depicting unusual stitches.
I’m not sure that I’d say that it’s programming, but it is a pretty neat DSL
Sources say God is actually a software engineer
https://xkcd.com/224
Beautiful work.
As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P
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I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track. different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders
I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.
Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?
Thread a flexible needle (usually called "circular") or a wire through a full row near the cut, unravel the remaining rows, then take a fine crochet hook to chain the loops together.
Or just hem it, but that doesn't look like what she does.
Circular knitting typically uses a technique called "grafting" or "Kitchener stitch" to close tubes seamlessly without unraveling - you'd temporarily secure stitches on holders, cut one strand, then use a tapestry needle to mimic the path of the yarn through the live stitches.
They might be sergering the edges.
This is delightfully weird, I love projects like this.
Is this something that can be seen in person?
I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.
This! That would be awesomesauce. I haven't seen his videos in a while.
He retired the format a few years ago. Now he just does game shows and random projects with his friends, which...fair enough, that's what I'd do with a pile of passive YouTube income.
He retired: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0
Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)
I doubt it would be difficult to make. You can buy the knitting machine on amazon. They usually have a handle you can crank unless it is electric. Just attach a turbine to the handle.
I missed the (obvious) context and imagined an aircraft engine turbine attached.
you could, but the (original) website is from 2009...so probably not enough interest to keep that up. The old link is dead: https://windknittingfactory.bigcartel.com/
I'm disappointed it doesn't make socks.
Every HNer knows your startup needs to maintain a moat /s