11. Open Source Hardware - From Fibers to Fabric¶
Research & Ideation¶
References & Inspiration¶
When we started this week as a team work we have not started from zero but stepped into a small ecosystem of an open-source machine documentations. and we have explored knitting machines world trying to mimic it and learn to redesign and new thing through the way of doing.
Machine referance : Varvara & Mar¶
Starting to look for a machine has been designed in 2014 known as Circular Knitic by Varvara & Mar. you can see on the right side. The machine has interesting features and more search we found a simplified version done by Jasmin sermonet based on Circular kiniting machine_Varvara & Mar . it was well documented so that we decided to go with it .see the photo on the left .
Tools + Challenges¶
Looking through documentation, tools, and GitHub resources, we found some challenges such as:
- Finding the correct needles from local suppliers within a day!!
- Some pieces needed to be re-designed and 3D-printed to match the resources we have (screws and other hardware).
- Using 3D printing to test the redesigned elements and then adjusting them based on the results.
- Electronics: we first wanted to keep the machine manual, but then we found it not so easy — adding electronics would actually save us time!
- Finding the right way to guide the threads on the machine, plus tuning the needle height, was challenging while the machine was in motion.
BoM example¶
Materials¶
| Qty | Description | Price | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Material one | 22.00 $ | Knitting Machine Needles | Local Supplier |
| 1 | Material two | 22.00 $ | http://amazon.com/test | find alternative |
| 1 | Material three | 22.00 $ | http://amazon.com/test |
Workflow¶
Prepare¶
3dPrint stl¶
The documentation contains stl files for the machine peices on the Github and ready to download and re-print on any 3d-printer . feel free to check This link.
Re-Design¶
As long we explored the objects and understand it , we relized we need to adjust a few things in the design to match the resourses we have and each tiny detail had changed means checking another peice in the design that most likely effected by this change . How ever the peices has been changed named in Github : 1.4xBearings.stl. 2.Big Bottom Gear.stl. 3. 1. First Wheels Challenge
- Second
Metal cut¶
Laser Cut¶
Bottom gear _ wheel challenge!
Machine Assembly¶
Machine¶
Rotation¶
Code Example¶
Use the three backticks to separate code.