Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way.

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

The Knitting Network Printer — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

What can you do with a vintage 1980s knitting machine? You can turn it into a ‘Knitting Network Printer’, that’s what!

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine (magazine.raspberrypi.com)

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