For centuries, knitting has been a beloved pastime. Technological advancements, particularly in the form of knitting machines, have significantly simplified the process of crafting complex patterns ...

A research team from Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University has developed a prototype knitting machine that can build arbitrarily rigid three-dimensional structures by layering stitches ...

Here’s a YouTube video of the garter transfer carriage in action, to make garter stitch fabric on a double bed Superba machine: See how much easier and faster the garter stitch is on the double bed ...

Yes, you read that right– not benchy, but beanie, as in the hat. A toque, for those of us under the Maple Leaf. It’s not 3D printed, either, except perhaps by the loosest definition of the word: it is ...

With technology giving competition to the speed of light, we always keep a keen eye out for startups that are disrupting our world and our everyday lives through innovation par excellence. Keeping ...

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 ...

The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

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 ...

3D printing is great if you need to create something made of plastic or even metal or ceramic out of thin air. But what if you want something fuzzier and warmer? Something, like say, a hand-knit scarf ...