Open Source Circular Knitting Machine

Basics

• Part of the Open Source Textile Construction Set

• Can Produce Various Cloth Products, like the Open Source Linear Knitting Machine, but specializes in circular/tubular things like socks

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

• http://www.terrot.de/en/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9l0QdsUXA

Existing Open Source Designs

• https://github.com/var-mar/circular_knitic

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 )

See Also

Open Source Textile Construction Set

Knitting Machine

Useful Links

• Wikipedia Article on Industrial Knitting Machines

• Kniterate

• Shimaseiki

• OpenKnit