- First step should be seeing what each thing I’ve signed up for actually is:
- Work with Wovens and Stretch Patterns group to explore incorporating into software
- Task analysis of tool
- Adaptive Textile Tools:
- Research and compile repository of tools → could be a GitHub repo → Daniel will create a Wordpress
- Research community
Start with research & tool repository.
Daniel’s website
Assignment 1:
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, by Emily Ladau
- Please read Intro, Chapters 1 & 2 and answer the following response questions in your VIP notebook/blog:
- A brief summary (3-5 sentences) – what was it about?
- One takeaway – a professional insight you draw from the work/text/media, and that you think will be useful to keep in mind in the near or distant future
- Connection to a real-world example – this could be something you thought of while exploring this work, something that is similar that reminds you of something in the field, a connection to another reading/discussion from class
- A burning question that remains with you. This question can connect with other work you’ve been assigned or what we’ve discussed in class.
Assignment 2 - overdue
Project(s):
- Start learning your tool (machine, software, etc.)! Since you might not have access before we next meet or be able to stop by the Ability Project when someone is in the lab, I recommend watching videos about any physical tools. I find that watching others utilize a tool prior to starting on it yourself will make the learning process a bit smoother.
- Check out the Sewing Machine Training at the MakerSpace. If there are no trainings available yet, ask at the front desk for more information.
- Search for the software or make and model (projects page) on the internet and YouTube.
- Here are some places to start on YouTube:
- Knitting Machines and AYAB:
- https://www.youtube.com/@KnitFactoryImpl
- Breathing new life into old knitting machines | Electronic Textile Camp 2024
- Knitting Machine Repair:
- Freesewing.org
- Lastly, look through my Are.na repository.
- Post:
- List all recourses you found about your chosen tool.
- If you are able to get into the lab or to setup time at the MakerSpace, document your experience.
- Discuss any discoveries and any challenges you might have had.
FreeSewing.org
What is Free Sewing?
FreeSewing is the leading open source library for on-demand garment manufacturing.
FreeSewing’s sewing patterns are made to measure.
We don’t scale or grade patterns. Instead, FreeSewing drafts a design into a pattern made to your measurements. That happens in real-time, in your browser.
- Design: One of the styles that we offer. We’ve got dozens of designs, and you can try them all
- Pattern: The result of drafting the design(turning it into a sewing pattern to your measurements). We’ve got thousands of patterns stored for our users, and some might be yours
FreeSewing for Developers
FreeSewing.dev hosts documentation for developers, designers, contributors, and translators.
FreeSewing.eu Is also relevant
AYAB: All yarns are beautiful
Links for AYAB:
The goal of the AYAB project is to provide an alternative way to control the famous Brother KH-9xx range of knitting machines using a computer.
Watch this:
“We have the Brother KH-910 in the lab for this project”
Make a diagram of all the features of this
https://www.ayab-knitting.com/ayab-hardware/
→ email Daniel to see what I could prioritize / see if I could work with the 3D printer
AYAB connects to the eletronics internally which means it can support older machines.
There’s a shield that goes on top of the Arduino.
Why doesn’t evil mad scientist distribute AYAB anymore? / if it’s so hard to find, why focus on it? To replicate it?
Produces what looks like a clock line and turns the rotary encoder internally inside the machine.
Then solenoid buffer of 16 bits.
1 clock cycle = 1 turn on the machine
Brother firmware
Carriage
Design files are on their Github for our own Arduino Shield
For the LK100 or else, Mylar is too expensive.
They can be eletronic or not.
Best softwares to do professional schematics?
Electronic vs Analog Knitting Machines
Week 3 update:
- FreeSewing.org vs AYAB
Resources
by same person who revived AYAB
Questions
- Daniel mentioned needing tools for his own research - I’m curious to know what that is?
- By semester’s end, what goals do you have?
- Why using something not manufactured anymore? If our goal is helping the disabled community have their own tools → wouldn’t we also think about the accessibility of the process itself?
- Feels to me like manufacturing our own Arduino Shield would be fruitful, regardless of whether we can get that one off Etsy, & documenting it for the Ability Project Youtube.
- Who are these groups exactly? Couldn’t find info online. Wovens and Stretch Work with Wovens and Stretch Patterns group to explore incorporating into software.
For the future
Add accessibility features for screen reader to my blog. Add alt text to my images.
I would like to have a knitting machine workshop.
Resources
Yarn it Forward: An NYU Club Gives Back to NYC - Yarn it Forward members create warm garments and blankets that local organizations distribute to people in need around the city
Next steps
- Do schematics for machine components (then link with Yafira)
- Checkout books shown in class