Open Source Automated Industrial Knitting Machine

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 )

See Also

Open Source Textile Construction Set

Knitting Machine

Useful Links

1. Wikipedia Article on Industrial Knitting Machines

2. Kniterate

3. Shimaseiki

4. OpenKnit