Knitting Machine on tour

Last week, TOG had an exhibition of projects in the gallery at Exchange Dublin. I wanted to include the hacked knitting machine, so Sinead took a set of photos and I created a couple of displays on the wall.

Normal knitting, before TOG got involved

Hacked machine and the resulting knitting

On the closing night, I gave a live demo of the contraption:

• Broke the knitting machine when I was supposed to be collecting it from TOG.
• Fixed it again.
• Knitted a scarf for a capoeirista.
• Knitted various other texts, some featuring ducks.
• Was mocked for my code’s lack of unit tests.
• “Hey, my granny used to have one of those. I think it’s in the attic now…”

The whole thing was a lot of fun. You know, maybe I could get into this exhibition malarkey.

By the way, the Exchange is under threat of closure…