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Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

The Knitting Network Printer — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

What can you do with a vintage 1980s knitting machine? You can turn it into a ‘Knitting Network Printer’, that’s what!
A woman standing in front of an enormous knitted map of the night sky, with constellations labelled
A woman standing in front of an enormous knitted map of the night sky, with constellations labelled
A woman standing in front of an enormous knitted map of the night sky, with constellations labelled
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@Natasha_Jay this is very Mastodon.

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