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Knitting
Open Source Knitting Software with FOSSASIA
Open Source Knitting
On this page you find an overview of
FOSSASIA
Open Source Knitting Projects and how to start to
get involved
Communication
Knitting Projects
kniteditor
knittingpattern
AYABInterface
circle-knitting
How to Contribute
Other Projects
Inactive Projects
Communication
Slack:
FOSSASIA
has a
Slack
to chat in the community. You can use the main channel or
#knitting
. The current project lead of the knitting project is
github
and on
Slack
under the name “niccokunzmann”. Feel free to get in touch directly for questions.
Gitter:
We have a Gitter chat which you can join as well at
gitter.im/fossasia/knitapps
Mailing List:
There is a
mailing list for knitting applications
for questions and ideas. You can also join the
FOSSASIA mailing list
Knitting Projects
kniteditor
The Knit Editor is an editor for the knit exchange format. It allows
creating digital knit works
from images and knitting it with several knitting machines. This kniteditor is developed together with
All Yarns Are Beautiful
. You can
download the releases
and install them.
Read about the project:
blog post about this project
Repository:
GitHub
Tutorials:
Videos on YouTube
Related Projects:
knittingpattern
AYABInterface
knittingpattern
The
knittingpattern
is a Python library for an exchange format for knit work. It allows specifying how to knit a particular piece of work.
Read about the project:
blog post about this project
Repository:
GitHub
Tutorial:
Videos on YouTube
Related Projects:
AYABInterface
kniteditor
AYABInterface
The
AYABInterface
is used by the
Knit Editor
to convert
knittingpatterns
into machine instructions. It can be used standalone without these other projects. You can
Read about the project:
blog post about this project
The new AYABInterface module
Repository:
GitHub
Tutorial:
Videos on Youtube
Related Projects:
knittingpattern
kniteditor
circle-knitting
The goal of this project is to develop a knitting machine that is entirely made from plastic. An enhanced model can include a micro PC that can control the machine using our Open Source knitting software. This project can enable people to print out a plastic on a 3D printer. This project implements the idea to code a circular knitting machine.
Repository:
GitHub
How to Contribute
Translate
: A majority of people on earth do not speak English. By translating software, you make it accessible to thousands of people. You can add translations to these projects:
kniteditor
A video on how to translate
Blogpost about localization implementation
Improve Metrics
: Improving code metrics requires coding but not the understanding of how the code works. You learn how to set up this specific environment, fix some code and while doing this, you read it and get familiar with it. When your pull request is merged, you have contributed to the health of the project. Some of the repositories have code metrics like code coverage and code quality. They can be improved easily. E.g. in
this example
you can find this error:
bbox = list(map(lambda f: f*zoom, layout.bounding_box))
missing whitespace around arithmetic operator
This can fix this by adding spaces around the operator.
Solve Issues
: All the projects have “issues” attached to them. They show bugs and feature requests. A solved issue improves the life of somebody on earth. When solving the issue, you are introduced to the development process of the project and learn how to adapt the project to your needs. Issues can be found in the issue tracker of github. The badge above links to the overview of all listed projects. If you find an issue which interests you, please comment that you would like to work on it. This way, you get help and it is not done twice. Code should be documented and tested. Consider trying out
documentation driven development
Test-First
and
test-driven development
Other Projects
This section contains links and related projets and work in the field of knitting. Other overview sites are listed here. The objective is to ease exploring the network of people and projects.
Community Connections
Blogpost about Designaknit
Inactive Projects
These projects are a bit older, obsolete or not maintained any more.
knitpat -
knitpat
contains a pattern definition format for knit work. It is the predecessor of the
knittingpattern
library.
knitserver -
Knitserver
is a Knitlib client that provides REST API endpoints for knitting machine software and control. Knitserver is designed to interact with
Knitweb
. Repository:
GitHub
knitweb -
knitweb
is an app frontend and backend that works together with the knitlib server and uses the knitpat format. Repository:
GitHub
knitlib - Knitlib is a library designed to support the operation of varied knitting machines, mechanisms, and hacks. Knitlib is based on projects like
AYAB
, PDD, and KnitterStream to control knitting machines. Knitlib features a plugin system for knitting machines and implements an API to control machines’ operation, knitting jobs and knitting patterns. The software is based on Python. There also is a Web API. Among the primary tasks is to develop plugins based on this solution to add support for more machines. Repository:
GitHub
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