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What impressed me the most is that he made a webpage to help him do the knitting. Example of a dinosaur: https://lagomorpho.com/patterntracker/?pattern=pattern

What impressed me the most is that he made a webpage to help him do the knitting. Example of a dinosaur: https://lagomorpho.com/patterntracker/?pattern=patterns/chromedino-l.js https://lagomorpho.com/patterntracker/?pattern=patterns/chro... This should be a product on its own. Take a photo, use some PyTorch and get a ready made page to help you. Don’t know how many times I have printed A4 paper or handed my wife the iPad with a zoomed version of the receipt she is knitting.

jgrahamc 7y ago
That's definitely a thing. The knitting world has been pixelating stuff forever and there have been knitting machines with everything from floppy disk interfaces to USB-C.
- Symbiote 7y ago
  My mother had a knitting machine interfaced with a BBC Model B over a serial connection. It had four colours of wool, and the knitting area was about a metre wide. It was like this (video), but the program in the machine would automatically raise and lower the needles according to the wool colour required for each line. The result is the first computer program I ever used, age 2 or so, was the knitting pattern editor. I think it was the simplest drawing/colouring program, since you just had a large grid with 4 colours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aEzZ6TdpcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aEzZ6TdpcQ (I think this is a cheaper machine. My mum's could change the wool colour automatically: it would beep when this was required, and you dragged the thing (shuttle?) to the far side, where some mechanical clicking would happen and the wool in use would be swapped.)