Forget 3D printing: Cornell is 3D knitting with its new machine If you find 3D printers to be just a little too coldly futuristic, this contraption might be more to your liking. Scientists from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Knitting dates back to the 11th century, but it’s blowing up in a whole new way in the 21st. In short, machines can knit as well ...

The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

In an industry that changes so rapidly, it can be staggering to realize how close we still are to the garment-making ways of the 1800s. While many processes have indeed modernized and digitized, there ...

We have featured plenty of projects here on Geeky Gadgets that have been created using 3D printing technology and a new project by a team of makers is definitely worth mentioning. Circular Knitic is a ...

Yes, you read that right– not benchy, but beanie, as in the hat. A toque, for those of us under the Maple Leaf. It’s not 3D printed, either, except perhaps by the loosest definition of the word: it is ...

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 for the ...

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 the ...

When I was a baby, my grandma knit me an impressive range of little booties and blankets. I’ve been worried that I will utterly fail at my grandmotherly duties when I eventually have grandchildren ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction – forward, backward and diagonal – so users can construct a wide variety of shapes ...