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Thing is, standard knitting machines are expensive and cannot be controlled from standard cheap consoles :-)

A friend of mine has one of these, it's a massive, metallic and heavy version of the one in the article. It makes a big difference. If this was available and it wasn't too expensive I think it would be really cool.



> Thing is, standard knitting machines are expensive and cannot be controlled from standard cheap consoles :-)

The Passap line ($1-3k depending on model, IIRC) could be controlled by PCs, which were relatively cheap even then.

One of the Passap accessories, not included in that price, was a motor to move the shuttle back and forth.

Unfortunately, Passap is out of biz.


I have to look that up.

Cheers.




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