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Binary Code of the Knitting Machine

Voice Knitting Machine

Earlier this week Amanda sent me the link http://twenty1f.com/ -there are some amazing projects on this site! One of which was The Voice Knitting Machine by Magdalena Kohler and Hanna Wiesener (I posted the write up from the site below).

9 September 2007 Regine ars electronica ars electronica 2007 design sound wearable

"A few really nice projects are shown on the Campus 2.0. of ars electronica. One that particularly stands out is Gelsomina by Magdalena Kohler and Hanna Wiesener, two students from the UDK (university of the arts) in Berlin.

How does it feel when a sweater becomes a medium with which to record your own voice? Gelsomina, the voice knitting machine, makes it possible to transfer individual vocal melodies to a piece of clothing so that they become visible in the different varieties of knitted patterns.

The fashion designer and the product designer worked together to hack a knitting machine from the '70s. Just say a message into a microphone and the frequency of your voice is analyzed by a computer and turned into binary code that the machine will interpret to control 24 servo-motors which will turn your words into knitted pattern. And hop! You can wear an individual voice message on a sweater. No one will understand the message, it will stay in your head. The pattern doesn't just depend on the words but it varies also according to your modulation, whether you are excited or totally introverted. And of course wearing your voice is quite intimate so you might probably want to keep the garment just for you or offer it to someone you love.

Magdalena and Hanna have even partnered with an industrial knitting company to produce a line of clothing that are made to be worn very close to your skin. Starting in November, it will be possible to leave your message via the internet. " [http://twenty1f.com/index.php?http://twenty1f.com/news/voice-knitting-machine/]

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The patterns produced by the Matador knitting machine also inhabit binary coding. I have been creating structures through different binary coding methods the last few weeks that have been resulting in individualistic "circuits".

creating movement

possible way(s) to move needles

door bell

latch needle open and closed

When the latch needle(s) is open it is ready to receive the yarn.
Once the latch needle is closed two of the following action can be occurring;
first a piece of yarn is held within the latch, the needle slides underneath the previous yarn row and a stitch is created.
second the latch can be closed so the needle can not receive the yarn.

non-working position

working position

needle positions

There are two main needle positions I will be focusing on. The first is the non-working position in which the needles are not in work. The second needle position I will be focusing on will be the working position in which the needles will be working.

I would like to start to take a few latch needles out of the Matador and come up with a way to create smaller knitting machines through electronic means. Eventually I would like the smaller knitting machines to become apart of a larger system that start to have numerous input and output behaviors.

instructions

76 latch needle width tension issues

cast off process 42 latch needle width

cast off process

76 latch needle width cast on

26 latch needle width

42 latch needle width

76 latch needle width

26 latch needle width