At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening ...

Ordinarily, programming an industrial knitting machine to knit a certain type of item is quite a complex process. As a result, they're generally not used to create one-offs. That could change ...

It’s not quite an automated knitting machine – someone still has to run the shuttle across the machine – but the patterns are controlled via a Processing app available on the Knitic github.

After seeing the Brother KH-930E knitting machine in the video after the break it looks like the controls function quite like a CNC milling machine. Patterns can be programmed in and stored on a ...

3D knitting, as the tech version is called, was inspired by the 3D-printing revolution and aspires to a similar goal: to be the one piece of manufacturing technology in everyone's home.

From yarn to garment in 40 minutes, this 3D knitting technology is helping Australian fashion designers eliminate waste, save on labour and keep the manufacturing process in Australia.