kniterate notes 5

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about the Material Programming Project. We are developing malleable knitting software for the Kniterate, a semi-industrial knitting machine. This post is a bunch of notes from the past few weeks. The first post, on the Knitout project, is available here. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had a chance to write up notes on Material Programming, mostly because a lot of different things have been happening. Some of them I’ve written about here: I finished the first draft of the Kniterate-Knitout visualiser → My friend Jake presented his PhD thesis on modular open-source manufacturing → Ink & Switch came to visit both Chelsea’s Smart Textiles Lab and the CCI → I also made a bunch of updates to the Material Programming site, which now gives a better idea of our current work and direction. Kniterate-Knitout Visualiser the visualiser with waste section selected In preparation for the second material programming workshop (which will take place at the…