Thank you Instructables!

While in Spain we were invited to make two Circular Knitic workshops one at Ultra-Lab, Madrid (28th -19th April, 2015), where we built two machines.

and another at Espacio Open in Bilbao:

and after the workshop was a pleasure to make some scarfs for friends:

You can see more photos in our flickr albums from the workshop:

• Madrid: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcanet/sets/72157651871256298
• Bilbao: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcanet/sets/72157651893508888

Our 1st Circular Knitic workshop took place on the 7th Feb’15 at WeMake. WeMake is a Milan-based makerspace, which has a dedicated part of its space on the textile and wearables production, and especially knitting! This was a super positive discovery for us.

Here is a demo video of functioning Circular Knitic machine as an outcome of the workshop:

and some photos:

Day before the workshop had a lecture on ‘Soft Digital Fabrication’

Here it is - open hardware replicable circular knitting machine - Circular Knitic! The idea, which we got already in 2012 - to make an open source knitting machine, which could be produced with digital fabrication tools - is now realized!

Circular Knitic is an open hardware project. By using digital fabrication and makers’ tools, like 3D printing, laser cutting, makerbeam, and Arduino, we have designed an automated and replicable circular knitting machine.

Fab Labs and makerspaces are a lot about hard-surface object production. At the same time, the 1^st digital fabrication tool, which is an electronic knitting machine back to 1976, has been forgotten and discontinued. Hence, with this project, Circular Knitic, and our earlier one called Knitic, we aim to integrate textile fabrication to the makers’ culture.

Code and design files are on github.
Also we made some basic video tutorials how to start knitting on Circular Knitic machine:

Commissioned by Ayuntamiento Zaragoza.

Exhibited:
- DOERS exhibition curated by David Cuartielles in Etopia, Zaragoza, Spain (Dec’14 - July’15)

We are collaborating with Gerard Rubio the author of OpenKnit for making software part for the completely open source knitting machine. It is almost there: make your own knitting machine!

We have added double bed feature to Knitic. Download updated Knitic software from Github.
Also have tested more Knitic PCB and heard from Knitic users that it is doing its job well.

Double-bed really adds the quality to knitwear. Here our last NeuroKnitting work:

A new book has been published by Verena Kuni with title “Häkeln + Stricken für Geeks” (“Crochet + knitting for Geeks”) with some mentions to Knitic with text and photos. The link to the book is here: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/haekelnkgger/

Come and record your brainwaves into pattern of your scarf!

You can read our article here: ‘Knitic - The Revolution of Soft Digital Fabrication‘ poster got published at Digital Humanities 2013 Conference

New project realized in the collaboration with Sebastian Mealla.
Neuro Knitting represents a novel way of personal, generative design and fabrication. An approach that brings together affective computing and digital crafts. And thus, it offers new applications and creative thinking to both areas.

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