Industrial hardware at the U! Jenny Lin gave me a tour of her lab today and showed off her industrial knitting machine. She researches computational knitting, including knitting program equivalence and motion capture for clothing. Here's her Shima Seiki WholeGarment industrial knitting machine:
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Thalia Archibald
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in reply to Thalia Archibald • • •Jenny also has a Silver Reed knitting machine that's programmable with punch cards! Just like the Jaquard looms and computers after them. Except she doesn't have a punch card reader—these cards just came with a component to demo it—and uses its software control.
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Thalia Archibald
in reply to Thalia Archibald • • •The Silver Reed 60-column/25-row knitting punch cards and my IBM-format 80-column/12-row punch cards from the CHM Archives. They're much larger and seem to be made in bulk, not with a keypunch.
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #knitting