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.

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 ...

We’ve seen our fair share of interesting knitting hacks here at Hackaday. There has been a lot of creative space explored while mashing computers into knitting machines and vice versa, but fo… ...

The final patterns can be used with a knitting machine, which has been available to home knitters for years, but still require a fair amount of technical knowledge in order to design patterns for ...

And once the designs are complete, a machine will knit them together. The researchers tested the software by having people with no knitting experience design gloves and hats.

The deep knitting pipeline, from real-world photos of garments and ground truth labels of stitches, on the left, to inferred stitch patterns that are produced by the network, on the right.