Sweaters as a Service
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An old 1980s knitting machine is hacked to take computer images by emulating its floppy drive, sending 1‑bit bitmaps over a custom serial cable, and driving a carriage with 200 needles. Yarn had to be rewound with a MacGyvered spooler and machine patterns reverse‑engineered; code is Ruby plus image‑conversion and floppy‑emulation libraries, served through a tiny web UI. The pipeline produces recognizable knits (including a Grumpy Cat sweater), and the system demonstrably works.
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