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TOG's 70's knitting machine knits tweets.

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The TwitterKnitter

Row change microswitch

Hello world

Knitting machine: Empisal Knitmaster 321

Extra hardware: contraption made of 24 servos, laser cut dibblers, three LEDs and a microswitch.

arduino/knitting.ino runs on an Arduino Mega and controls the knitting machine hardware.

python/server.py runs on a laptop connected to the Arduino via USB. Converts tweets to images and sends them to the Mega via USB. Python 3

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