Signal boost: Embroidermodder

[jducoeur]

Not my thing, but I'm sure I have friends who will be interested in this Kickstarter project. This team is in the middle of building a relatively inexpensive, open-source, full-featured embroidery-software platform. It seems to be basically The GIMP for embroidery: highly customizable, even allowing folks to build their own plug-ins.

So if the phrase "computer-controlled sewing machine" turns you on (and I know for a fact that at least one of my friends is attuned to it), check it out...

Comments

[ilaine-dcmrn.livejournal.com]

I'm already on this one. Embroidery machine software is all proprietary and crazy expensive

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

Unlike the GIMP, this interfaces with moving parts. Dealing with the analog world, within the physical constraints of the parts, while making performance tradeoffs, is a fairly specialized skill. These guys seem to know what they're doing.

[jducoeur]

Oh, sure. I mostly meant at the conceptual level: taking a somewhat specialized and very expensive tool, and creating a highly flexible open-source version of it so that more people can use it...

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Didn't that used to be the punchline to the old joke "How do you instantly get the attention of a room full of SCAdians?"