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- Similar to a [https://www.kniterate.com/product/kniterate-the-digital-knitting-machine/ Kniterate] Device | - Similar to a [https://www.kniterate.com/product/kniterate-the-digital-knitting-machine/ Kniterate] Device | ||
- Can Produce fully assembled garments, fabric sheets, and sails from reels of yarn, all at the touch of a button | - Can Produce fully assembled garments, fabric sheets, and sails from various reels of yarn (as well as wire for conductive fabric/circuits/smart fabric) , all at the touch of a button | ||
==Used For== | ==Used For== | ||
Revision as of 00:49, 20 November 2017
Basics
- Part of the Open Source Textile Construction Set
- Similar to a Kniterate Device
- Can Produce fully assembled garments, fabric sheets, and sails from various reels of yarn (as well as wire for conductive fabric/circuits/smart fabric) , all at the touch of a button
Used For
The conversion of various yarns into fully assembled products such as:
Clothing
Safety Clothing
Hazmat Clothing
Sails
Tents
Cement Impregnated Fabric
Cement Impregnated Fabric Tents
Waterproof Tarps
Medical Fabric (i.e gauze)
Conductive Fabric or Garments / Smart Fabric or Garments
Industry Standards
1. Kniterate
2. Shimaseiki
Minimum Viable Product
- Modular
- User Upgradable
- User Maintainable
- Integration with Open Source Textile Construction Set
- Scaleable from desktop machines all the way to the largest industrial machines
- Can be part of something like the D3D Print Farm , but for production of textile products
- Can use many types of yarn materials / gauges of yarn
- Produces finished products ( or at least as close to finished as we can get it to go )
Basic Design
BOM
See Also
Open Source Textile Construction Set
Useful Links
1. Wikipedia Article on Industrial Knitting Machines
2. Kniterate
3. Shimaseiki