Open Source Circular Knitting Machine: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 17:10, 24 February 2018

Basics



Used For

The conversion of various yarns into fully assembled products such as:

  • Clothing
  • Safety Clothing
  • Hazmat Clothing
  • Cement Impregnated Fabric
  • Cement Impregnated Fabric Tents
  • Waterproof Tarps
  • Medical Fabric (i.e gauze)
  • Conductive Fabric or Garments / Smart Fabric or Garments



Industry Standards

Existing Open Source Designs

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

Knitting Machine



Useful Links