Pledge: Knitting Machine

The item

We have a Brother KH-950 Knitting machine!

It can be hacked to knit over usb and to work automatically. This means you can 'print' pixel art in wool form!

Story so far

• Knitter won on a well-know auction site
• Got a very strange look from the seller when I collected it "Is it...for you??!"
• Briefly set up in Derby and ran for two minutes before the smoke escaped
• Fault identified as a failed capacitor in the PSU. Spare cap will be collected from a well-known high street electronics company on Tuesday 5th July
• Should be delivered to the Space on Sunday 10th July
• New caps have been fitted and the machine powers up without smoke

Please could all pledges now be settled by transfer to the HackSpace account, with the unique reference "KNITTING".

We got it working! Charles, Sam and I successfully knitted a basic boring sheet of wool. Charles and Sam then knitted some patterns from the document reader - tomw

The code for a floppy drive emulator is here and I plan to try it out tonight - tomw

Status

Currently out of order - do not use

Pledges

• £10 Ciarán -- PAID
• £40 Solexious -- PAID
• £10 Dave Durant -- PAID reference ""
• £30 zoe -- PAID reference "knitting machine from zpl"
• £10 kevin -- PAID reference "FFED910200922B9FC7"
• £10 Artag -- PAID reference "FFED910200922B9FC7" (sorry, saw the change too late)
• £30 nigle -- PAID
• £20 tomwj -- PAID reference "KNITTING" --Tomwj 14:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
• £40 mattp -- PAID (reference PLEDGE)
• £10 --dsikar -- PAID
• £10 jasper -- PAID ("KNITTING")
• £20 timrich PAID but fluffed up the reference, its blank coming from account 60-14-37, 78466512
• £10 gausie

Paid : £240

Running Total:£250

Approximate target:£250

Left over cash (if any) will be used for maintenance/repairs.