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Best use of Arduino bits anywhere: a knitting bag that knows what your pattern is.

Brilliant idea! And a good breakdown, so that those not familiar with the Arduino can get the hang of it.

yeah, that made me giggle with glee last night. :D :D
I'm way too lazy to make one though.

I saw that yesterday, and was much amused by it. It's a pity, though, that it only goes to a 10-stitch pattern repeat! I'm currently making the Hex shawl from Knitty, which has a 10-stitch start and end, 6 x 22-stitch repeats and one 15-stitch part; and their Sunday Swing socks, which are a 32-stitch repeat...

Yup. It's adorable, but I can't think of the last time I did a 10-st repeat that wasn't easier to memorize than to read. It's the 15+ ones that would be great to carry around in handy electronic form.

I am amused that this is a

denise post rather than a

synecdochic post. (But also, that's really cool! Though it'd be even cooler if it could read your progress, perhaps via special knitting needles, and display the appropriate row/stitch/whathaveyou.)

I thought that awesome use of geek tools in a knitterly context made it something more suited to over here. :)

True that. :-)

iNeedles! With Bluetooth in the knobs! Oh, but then circulars wouldn't work. Hmmm.

Wii needles that recognize the wiggling around of knitting-in-progress!

They'd be bulky, though. Can one fit the circuitry into the cable of a circular without risking it breaking, one wonders? Or would it all have to go into the tips?

I'd imagine it must be possible, though maybe not easy or cheap.

Actually, it would be very cool to be able to say "I'll just get my Wii-dles out and do some knitting..."!

Wouldn't it, though?

I saw that! And then I said, I kid you not, "I bet I know half a dozen people on Dreamwidth who are going to make that."

*drools*

This Arduino thing is haunting me.

And I still don't get how this stuff even works. %| I tried reading the first few paragraphs, but gave up quickly ... (Then again, I'm not into knitting either, so I understand even less. |D)
But I guess it could be useful for some people?

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