A new software system can translate a wide variety of 3D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that allow a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes. “Knitting ...

We’re all about big machines that build things for us – laser cutters, CNC mills, and 3D printers are the machines de rigueur for Hackaday. Too often we overlook the softer sides of fabrication that ...

At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

Your grandma’s pastime could soon be a game changing trend in the apparel industry. That’s because researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Textile Lab have figured out how to translate 3D designs ...