Open Source Linear Knitting Machine
From Open Source Ecology
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
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
Internal Links
External Links
