This is a great idea .. I wonder if it can be adapted to using recycled plastic threads, so that a fleet of these could be deployed into the ocean to recover plastics, turn them into nets, and use those nets to .. recover more plastic?
If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.
Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!
Knitting is programming. Read a knitting pattern and it's low level programming - knitters do not get enough credit.
Beautiful work.
As an off-topic observation, whenever I see something like the phrase “operates between the public and the private space” I immediately think: this person definitely went to art school :P
Oh that device should look familiar to fans of Hand Tool Rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCNaHMo2EI
I spent a couple of days building staircases inside a rope factory, kinda thing that I would just add a glass wall and put in a coffee shop, it's an odd thing to watch something solid materialise out of a intricate repetitive motion that happens ever so slightly faster that you can track.
different rig than the wind knitter but both I think are clasified as braiders
I'm curious about how you 'harvest' a section of tube without it unraveling.
Maybe cut it around, remove the little bits of yarn, then unravel a ways on purpose, and knit the unraveled yarn through the edge like a normal bind-off?
This is delightfully weird, I love projects like this.
I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.
Is anyone else disappointed that you can't buy the wind-knitting device itself, only scarves knitted from the device? :)