alt Hacker NewsAn automated, full garment knitting machine that can fit on a desk.
There are only a few knitting machines that can automatically do everything required to knit a complete garment, and they are large, heavy and extremely expensive. I'm aiming to trade off speed against size and cost to create something akin to a 3D printer for knitwear.
I've been testing out various ideas for six months now, and I think I have a workable concept, but there's still a lot of work to do!
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This is exciting, please post updates somewhere!
the impact of this would be significant. You should check out Issey Miyake's "A Piece of Cloth" (Issey Miyake: A-POC and 132 5) collection, which was clothing based on a single piece of fabric. It's old, like 1999 era, but the concept has come up a few times since.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 is a start, but there are other examples. Rei Kawakubo also did a collection called Square based on a similar concept. Yoji Yamamoto did a couple as well, there were a few moments in Japanese fashion that would work extremely well with a full garment knitter.
These pictures are the top level concepts, but the rest of the collections if you can still find them have more examples.
This does sound incredible. If there's anywhere to follow your progress please let us know.