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| | | Greetings All, I've built a functional LEGO knitting machine. The thing works remarkably well and has yet to drop a stitch. Pictures can be found at: (URL) video is at: (URL) just mesmerized by this thing and hope you enjoy it. Tom (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Chris Magno
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| | | | | (...) Tom, I am speechless. This is amazing. Thank you for this. Chris (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Robert G Fay
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| | | | | "Thomas Johnson" <aklego@mac.com> wrote in message news:Iswurq.1yIM@lugnet.com... (...) That is just incredible and driven with a battery box. I was expecting at least two RCX bricks. Great piece of mechanics. I always enjoy Lego that really does (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | (...) So do I... Congratulations, Tom! Philo (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Yann Vernier
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| | | | | (...) <snip> (...) Marvellous. Did you base it on a similarly functioning machine? I haven't seen anything nearly as elegant in lego building before, and I am really glad I peeked outside the robotics newsgroups today! (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Geoffrey Hyde
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| | | | | It looks remarkably simplistic yet elegant. I do have one very minor problem, however, with your javascript slideshow thingy. It tends to advance two frames, instead of one, could you please add conventional links like in a folder on brickshelf or (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Brian Davis
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| | | | | (...) Speechless. Just amazing. Now I'll have to learn to knit! How did you work this out? (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Mitch Stacy
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| | | | | Wow. Amazing. Sheer beauty to watch function. Congrats on a fantastic build. Mitch (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Mark Bellis
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| | | | | (...) Well done Tom. Great piece of work! Perhaps soon you will be able to wear the proceeds :-) I remember seeing a knitting machine where a carriage travelled about a metre back and forth. Is it possible to transfer the mechanism to a larger frame (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Thomas Johnson
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| | | | | Greetings, Thank you all for the compliments! There were a few questions posted and I'll try to answer them all here rather than individually. This machine is not directly modeled after a similar device. However, I learned a great deal about (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Dave Curtis
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| | | | | (...) Wow! Just, Wow! I've been lurking here at lugnet for ages, but this one pulled me out of the woodwork and motivated me to sign up for posting. For some time, I've been noodling over how to do a knitting machine or a fully mechanical loom. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Thomas Johnson
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| | | | | | (...) A loom would be quite cool and I hope that you build it. On the theme of textiles, here is a very cool LEGO yarn ball winder that someone else made: (URL) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Rob Stehlik
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| | | | | (...) Darn, you beat me to it. A knitting machine was the next Lego machine I was going to tackle. Fantastic work. Brilliant. Rob (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Robert G Fay
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| | | | | | "Rob Stehlik" <rob.stehlik@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:It3HDz.FCA@lugnet.com... (...) Rob, When I saw this machine running on only a battery box, your name came to mind. I will never forget what you did to your fellow contestants on the (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Chris Magno
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| | | | | | (...) :) Gee thanks Bob. Feel free to rub it in. (1) ;) Funny enough, just last night we were talking about Rob's monkey robot and how amazing it was. Rob, I hope seeing one knitting machine wont stop you from trying your own. Chris. 1. I had the (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Thomas Johnson
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| | | | | | (...) Agreed. I'd very much like to see what you come up with! Tom (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Chris Magno
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| | | | (...) Is the machine running at full speed in the video? Chris (19 years ago, 15-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Knitting Machine —Thomas Johnson
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| | | | (...) Yes. I suspect that it can go quite a bit faster but I've not yet tried. Tom (19 years ago, 15-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic)
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