Make: Volume 77

For the AYAB hack, you can use either the interface from

EMSL (top) or the Arduino shield (bottom).

AYAB HACK: A NEW ARDUINO BRAIN

The AYAB hack (All Yarns Are Beautiful, ayab-

knitting.com) takes a different approach. You

remove the entire 1980s electronics unit from the

knitting machine and replace it with an Arduino

and associated circuitry. Then a simple one-pixel-

per-stitch image is sent down one row at a time,

with the Arduino firmware directly controlling the

existing mechanics in the knitting machine as you

knit. It was developed in Germany in 2013 and got

a mention on Hackaday at the time.

One big advantage is that AYAB does not

depend ...