Timeline and short preview of projects around hacked knitting machine movement.
2007
„Mechanical punchcard machine hacked with servos“ by Magdalena Kohler and Hanna Wiesener.
First emulator for Brother knitting machine KH–940 by Steve Conklin. His talk on knithack history (PDF).
2010
Knitting programmes build by Becky Stern and Limor Fried (Adafruit) based on Steve Conklin’s emulator.
„Hacking the Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine“, video with Becky Stern.
„Multithreaded Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure 2D Extreme!“ by Travis Goodspeed, Fabienne Serriere and Arjen Scherpenisse .
„Img2Track“ is a program for converting image file to pattern data formatted for a Brother 900‑series knitting machine by Davi Post.
2012—2013
Case study on open knitting „The development and role of personal manufacturing“ by Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola.
„Knitic project, or how to give a new brain to knitting machines“, blog post about a Knitic Project.
„Spampoetry“ by Mar Canet Sola and „Circular Knitic“, a kinetic installation.
„Electronic+Textile Institute“ opens in Berlin to offer a place to meet, make projects and work.
„Hacked Knitting Machine“, a talk by Fabienne Serriere about hacked knitting machine scene (video in english after a quick intro in german).
2014
Manual for single bed machine by new media artist and textile designer Claire Williams.
„Sound Knit“ project by Maurin Donneaud.
Maurin Donneaud and Claire Williams organised „e–textile Summercamp“ in 2014.
„Glitch knit“ software by So Kanno made in FabLab Shibuya.
„AYAB Interface“ made by Evil Mad Scientist hardware, which is no longer in production.
„How Punch Cards and Arduino Close the Gap on Hacked Knitting“ by Sophia Smith for Make:zine.
„OpenKnit“ by Gerard Rubio is an open-source, low cost digital fabrication tool.
Gerard is also a founder of Kniterate startup.
The BLF (aka Brother Liberation Front) is a group of freedom hackers, dedicated to develop krafty software which is free and open source.
2017