I simply want to say "thank you so much " I've been searching for someone like me who is inquisitive. I'm so glad I've found you. I've done similar to help me calculate patterns from my tension swatches. ❤
you can also knit single bed two color patterns with ayab and it works fine without glitching. i haven't experienced an issue, but i'm not a fast knitter. one could try to knit fast on single bed and see if the error also turns up on other carriages then GC. So technically there's no need to cross the turn mark and resetting/homeing the carriage position. but it's correct, the garter carriage moves in a very certain way and doesn't stop on turnarounds. i'm almost certain it has something to do with the encoder reading
Oh dear this is making me want to learn C++ so I can help out with the project... I learned a little bit of Javascript through another open source project so I guess its an option...
Similar to you, I work in Public Accounting, and I find machine knitting is so interesting. It involves a lot of learning and problem solving. 9 out of 10, I got to drown myself in a tone of information and figure it out by myself. I have a 930. And I’m trying to see if there is a software that I can write the design and make it act like the floppy disk driver. You got any idea on this?
Well I discovered your channel maybe a week ago and I am absolutely loving it! I love the way your brain works. Hard weird problems are the best! I recently got in to machine knitting by way of 3D printing a circular sock knitting machine. I’d never done any knitting but I love machines, and I’m having a lot of fun! I have about a million questions for you about knitting machines I’d love to ask. But also I’m a robotics engineer and I do a lot of PCB design and embedded systems programming. Have you looked at the RP2040 processor? I love them and I’ve been designing quite a few PCBs with them lately. They run Arduino among other things so maybe AYAB would run well, and they have a lot of power. I’m curious if I could be of help with electronics or software or anything. I love open source and I’d be down to help. Any interest in having a chat some time? Maybe we could arrange a call. I’m in the Bay Area so same time zone and all that. Anyway your work is so cool! ⚡️🧶⚙️
@@KnitFactoryImpl great thanks! it looks like I will have to convert the files to Kicad for them to be useful to me (and to more people in general). I'll report back if I succeed.
There is another hack for these machines, which might have found a solution for the garter carriage. You might want to take a look at their ytube channel: youtube.com/@eKnitter
Have you tried to start GC Knitting on one of the first needles to the left, so the carriage hits the turn mark after every other row? i'm not near my machine so I can't see if it technically would be possible to set it up this way.
The way that I'm currently doing carriage detection, to deal with the extra magnets, means that the position state never gets reset. There might be a better way but I'd have to play with the slop.
What processing is done on the Arduino? Honestly can't see how this would be processing heavy on the Arduino. Can you compile everything on the desktop and send it all over at once. That way the Arduino isn't doing any actual math. It just goes through a list of commands. That should reduce the computational burden making it easier to respond to interrupts? I've never worked on a knitting machine or Arduino so I honestly have no idea if this would work. Thinking about it 3d printers typically stream gcode over as well. Maybe Arduino just doesn't have enough memory to keep everything loaded? Edit: went and googled it. Arduino basically has no space for what I suggested. I wonder if reading from sd card would be faster than over the wire. If so maybe if the shield had a SD card on it would solve the problem? Again I have no experience so maybe my suggestion is useless. Edit2: i chevked the github and i see everything has been resolved already lol.
I simply want to say "thank you so much " I've been searching for someone like me who is inquisitive. I'm so glad I've found you. I've done similar to help me calculate patterns from my tension swatches. ❤
I have faith you will! If only I was as talented to convert my electronic machines too. You are amazing!
You can do it! Check out the AYAB Facebook group. There are a lot of people there offering help.
Knitting machine technology is just so neat
Looking forward to the solution!
If only there was a way to measure needles knit, and needkes expected
Just the video I needed to see
I believe the esprit would be an option. It's an esp32 in a "uno board". Esp32 supports multithread
you can also knit single bed two color patterns with ayab and it works fine without glitching. i haven't experienced an issue, but i'm not a fast knitter. one could try to knit fast on single bed and see if the error also turns up on other carriages then GC. So technically there's no need to cross the turn mark and resetting/homeing the carriage position. but it's correct, the garter carriage moves in a very certain way and doesn't stop on turnarounds. i'm almost certain it has something to do with the encoder reading
i experienced this shifting/errors too with my experiments with the garter carriage
Oh dear this is making me want to learn C++ so I can help out with the project... I learned a little bit of Javascript through another open source project so I guess its an option...
Similar to you, I work in Public Accounting, and I find machine knitting is so interesting. It involves a lot of learning and problem solving. 9 out of 10, I got to drown myself in a tone of information and figure it out by myself.
I have a 930. And I’m trying to see if there is a software that I can write the design and make it act like the floppy disk driver. You got any idea on this?
Adafruit did the 930 hack. It is a little different than AYAB learn.adafruit.com/electroknit
Well I discovered your channel maybe a week ago and I am absolutely loving it! I love the way your brain works. Hard weird problems are the best! I recently got in to machine knitting by way of 3D printing a circular sock knitting machine. I’d never done any knitting but I love machines, and I’m having a lot of fun! I have about a million questions for you about knitting machines I’d love to ask. But also I’m a robotics engineer and I do a lot of PCB design and embedded systems programming. Have you looked at the RP2040 processor? I love them and I’ve been designing quite a few PCBs with them lately. They run Arduino among other things so maybe AYAB would run well, and they have a lot of power. I’m curious if I could be of help with electronics or software or anything. I love open source and I’d be down to help. Any interest in having a chat some time? Maybe we could arrange a call. I’m in the Bay Area so same time zone and all that. Anyway your work is so cool! ⚡️🧶⚙️
If you want to get involved with the hardware, check out the github repo: github.com/AllYarnsAreBeautiful/ayab-hardware
@@KnitFactoryImpl great thanks! it looks like I will have to convert the files to Kicad for them to be useful to me (and to more people in general). I'll report back if I succeed.
What garter carriage blanket ?
There is another hack for these machines, which might have found a solution for the garter carriage. You might want to take a look at their ytube channel:
youtube.com/@eKnitter
Have you tried to start GC Knitting on one of the first needles to the left, so the carriage hits the turn mark after every other row? i'm not near my machine so I can't see if it technically would be possible to set it up this way.
The way that I'm currently doing carriage detection, to deal with the extra magnets, means that the position state never gets reset. There might be a better way but I'd have to play with the slop.
Have you tried turning the speed of the Garter Carriage down and see if the error still occurs?
I was thinking the opposite...like the GC moves so slowly, how on earth is there not time for it to "catch up" to itself?!
Yes, I slowed the garter carriage down and I still had the same problem.
What processing is done on the Arduino? Honestly can't see how this would be processing heavy on the Arduino. Can you compile everything on the desktop and send it all over at once. That way the Arduino isn't doing any actual math. It just goes through a list of commands. That should reduce the computational burden making it easier to respond to interrupts? I've never worked on a knitting machine or Arduino so I honestly have no idea if this would work. Thinking about it 3d printers typically stream gcode over as well. Maybe Arduino just doesn't have enough memory to keep everything loaded?
Edit: went and googled it. Arduino basically has no space for what I suggested. I wonder if reading from sd card would be faster than over the wire. If so maybe if the shield had a SD card on it would solve the problem? Again I have no experience so maybe my suggestion is useless.
Edit2: i chevked the github and i see everything has been resolved already lol.