Sweaters as a service
summary
A broken 1980s home knitting machine with 200 needles becomes a networked yarn printer: the team follows an Adafruit tutorial, writes a yarn printer API in Ruby/Sinatra, builds a custom serial‑to‑USB cable and emulates a floppy drive to send one‑bit bitmaps, then successfully prints a doge meme and knits full sweaters live, demonstrating what was actually built, the tools used, and that it works end to end.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and inspiration
- 0:44Finding the machine
- 2:58Assembling the team
- 4:28Learning to knit patterns
- 5:51Hacking the hardware
- 7:20Developing a web interface
- 10:27Reviewing the code
- 11:06Lessons learned and closing
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