{"id":224546,"date":"2025-11-05T05:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/newly-developed-knitting-machine-makes-solid-3d-objects"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:29:45","slug":"newly-developed-knitting-machine-makes-solid-3d-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/newly-developed-knitting-machine-makes-solid-3d-objects","title":{"rendered":"Newly developed knitting machine makes solid 3D objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-knitting-machine-makes-solid-3d-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction\u2014forward, backward and diagonal\u2014so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts of the object.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional knitting, which yields a 2D sheet of stitches, this proof-of-concept machine\u2014developed by researchers at Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University\u2014functions more like a 3D printer, building up solid shapes with horizontal layers of stitches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe establish that not only can it be done, but because of the way we attach the stitch, it will give us access to a lot of flexibility about how we control the material,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Guimbreti\u00e8re, professor of information science at Cornell. \u201cThe expressiveness is very similar to a 3D printer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction\u2014forward, backward and diagonal\u2014so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts of the object. Unlike traditional knitting, which yields a 2D sheet of stitches, this proof-of-concept machine\u2014developed by researchers at Cornell University and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}