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The power supply of brother knitting machines can be a daunting subject when just starting out but also when you already have knitting experience and never taken care of electrical matters yourself. The following breakdown should help you decide what to do when you buy a new machine or your machine hasn´t been serviced in … Continue reading
As part of an unofficial partnership with the Art School Weißensee several students had the opportunity to work with the knitting machines for their foundation course in May and had a lot of fun. Some came back a second time to make several pieces. Mariko was knitting with cotton and monofilament Pamina grew her own … Continue reading
Alternative software to using the knitting machine with the AYAB Hack and an App written by Juliane Götz Juliane is a designer who is currently working in a collective and using VVVV software. She developed the app for an event to use the knitting machine and feeding it with information obtained via sensors and cameras. … Continue reading
AYAB Chris and Andz are in town and will be tinkering a bit at ETIBerlin, so we decided to open house. Check out the hack/shield for the brother computer machines and the AYAB GUI and learn a bit about machine knitting. Come over, ask questions and try out machines. What more do you want… Sat … Continue reading
Starting the machine knitting workshops in August I will continue to offer basic workshops at ETIB and FabLab. You can learn machine knitting without prior knowledge or freshen up you skills. Of course you can book in depth workshops or studio time to work on your projects or just to experiment. Fridays will be at … Continue reading
In collaboration with FabLab Berlin ETIB will be giving workshops on a range of topics that we will be developing as we go along. Our main goal is to bring hacked machine knitting closer to people using the AYAB hack, teach easy ways to make all things textile the way you want and combine crafts/textiles … Continue reading
Invitation to the ETIB Expert Summit 2015 January Meetup & Tour of Etib Whether you already are expert in your field or just curious you are invited to come over talk, drink tea (20 different kinds in store!) and look at our machines. If you are visiting the Transmediale, Etib is loaning out a few … Continue reading
Wohooo! The Etib campaign #WEKNIT4U is being nominated for (taking place the first time ever!) Berlin Crowdfunding Prize called Crowd for Berlin TECH by @ZukunftBerlin. Prizes for 1st place is € 5000,-, 2nd is €3000,- and 3rd will be € 2000,- and including advisory services. Together with 19 others we will be portrayed on the official … Continue reading
Etib will also be present at the MeshCon which is taking place from the 10 to 15th october parallel to the Wear it. We will be joining Ayab for their demo/workshop of the hack on sat 10am at the TU Berlin and will be opening our studio for everyone on the 15th at 4pm. You … Continue reading
AYAB – All Yarns Are Beautiful Chris and Andz the AYAB team have developed a knitting machine hack for the brother range and published it quite a while ago as open source and open hardware. Since then they have crazy feedback from people with two left hands who can´t solder the pieces together themselves so … Continue reading
Electronic + Textile Institute Berlin 