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Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

Deborah Pickett Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay I’ve seen this work in person. It’s very imposing. I remember working out the date depicted from the position of the planets.

Ian Norton (he/him)Oct 8

@futzle @Natasha_Jay Opening night of EMF Camp 2018 I think?

There's a talk all about this on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJlVPUV_hQ

Sarah Spencer: The Knitting Network Printer

YouTube

Ollie Boermans Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay @daedalus crafty!

Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay
This is wonderful.

@Natasha_Jay cc @quota_atypique @doomyflo

Steveg58 Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay
WoW!

SpaceLifeForm Sep 30

Serious use of purl.

@SpaceLifeForm
Bravo! 👏👏

@Natasha_Jay wonderful

Pēteris Krišjānis Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay that is so cool 🤩

stevenray Sep 30

@Natasha_Jay that's bonkers. 👍🏻

Tim Chase Sep 30

This reminded me of your weaving adventures and I thought you'd enjoy

@Natasha_Jay @rubenerd

Kyle Rankin Oct 1

@gumnos @Natasha_Jay @rubenerd neat!

This is a fascinating story. Thank you for sharing it. That must have been a high-priced knitting machine at the time that it was produced. An looking again at in now, we can see that the value has been clearly extended. All because it was equipped with a floppy disk drive.

What an absolutely brilliant engineer.

I forgot, I was thinking to mention: My Great Grandfather, William Wood, he was from Cork. How is the weather over there?

Peter Riley Oct 1

https://www.heartofpluto.co/

#Tapestry #STEM #Science #Knitting #Astronomy

Heart of Pluto

Heart of Pluto

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Oct 1

@Natasha_Jay this is very Mastodon.

@Lazarou @Natasha_Jay Literally what I was thinking 😄

Adéla Kučerová Oct 1

@Natasha_Jay This is so next level ❤️

Oliver Schafeld Oct 1

To quote some radio astronomer: "Wow!"

📡🤓😉

»It took over 100 hours of work« — I suppose it wouldn't be cheap then if it were for sale. Otherwise I believe I'd know at least one elementary school class that would ⭐️love⭐️ to have such a tapestry. ☺️

PS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Wow! signal - Wikipedia

I followed her on the bad place back when she was putting it together. It was great.

@Natasha_Jay @venite En anders heb je hier wellicht iets aan. ;)

I🤖Retrobots Oct 1

@Natasha_Jay now knit DOOM on it.

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Oct 1

I have no idea why such a ridiculous idea fills me with joy! And the pic of the result is lovely.

Frank Zimmermann Oct 3

@Natasha_Jay This is about the way that ito ito works:
ito ito / on-demand Produktion mit Strickereien in Deutschland https://share.google/RnDvFa8sMAowZA6is

ito ito - Shared Factory

Produziere deine Strick-Kollektion on-demand mit einer digitalen, nachhaltigen und transparenten Lieferkette mit Strickereien in Deutschland.

ito ito

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Oct 3

@Natasha_Jay shut up and take my money

donald_brady Oct 4

@Natasha_Jay This is peak Mastodon!

ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)Oct 4

@Natasha_Jay This is so cool!

Denise von der Astrokramkiste Oct 5

@Natasha_Jay WOW!! I love this work!

the kangaroo Oct 5

@Natasha_Jay wie cool ist das denn, Respekt!