#Fabricademy bootcamp 2025
May 19→25

Don't miss this year's bootcamp in Brussels to encounter international fellows in the field of #textile, #engineering and #biology.

I am co-organizing it through the #fablab @GreenFabric and the #fabricademy team (@fabtextiles ).

A great opportunity to test Fabricademy themes and way of working through intense hands-on workshops. It will cover #biomaterials with #mycelium #fungi, #modulardesign, #machineknitting with the #kniterate machine, using the #opensourcehardware machines that we built, #etextile with thermochromic inks.

Don't miss also the #MakerFaire on the following week-end (May 26-27) with the Fabricademy exhibition of final projects and a workshop on #softrobotics.

More info on https://bootcamp2025.textile-academy.org.

Boosts are more than welcome!

The second group of #typedesign students from erg came @greenfabric today to experiment #PixelFonts with @knitting.
Those were knitted on a #kniterate machine allowing for #doublebedjacquard (not floating threads on the back) and up to 4 colours on one row.

Thanks @Ludi for coming et bonnes vacances !

This morning, #typedesign students from erg came to @greenfabric to experiment type and #knitting.
Lots of glitches on the #kniterate machine because I was not focused enough preparing the files.
I'm also curious to see their hand-embroidered letters on the white knit.

Thanks @Ludi for bringing the nice group!

To be continued in 2 weeks...

@knitting
#machineknitting
#typeknitting

The #kniterate machine in action @greenfabric .

Yesterday evening, artist Anna Reutinger organised a knitting jam session at @greenfabric to knit scarves. The sales of these scarves will help Palestinian children.

6 persons, 3 hacked domestic machines, 1 #kniterate, 6 scarves, a lot of sweat and laugh!

No need for basic fit

If you are in #brussels and you'd like one, let us know!

strip-p-ed out

Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.

Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics

Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)

Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024

For more info see my previous post!

strip-p-ed out

A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?