/octoknit

An interface to manage and upload stitch patterns for a Brother 950i knitting machine

Primary LanguagePython

Octoknit

Octoknit Screenshot v1

Introduction

Use this website to design patterns, share them and send to a Brother 950i knitting machine.

Status

This is in active development. Current plans include:

  • Improving the user journey from beginner to regular.
  • Replace the commandline python script with a full php solution.
  • Extend the upload to knitting machine script to support multi-mylar sheet patterns and multi colour.

Demo

http://octoknit.chixor.net/

License

Copyright 2014 all rights reserved. In order to retain some measure of control over this codebase's early development I've restricted the license for now. I'll review its license when it's in a more stable state.

Setup

Apache config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName octoknit.me
    DocumentRoot "/Users/chixor/Sites/octoknit/public"
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
    <Directory /Users/chixor/Sites/octoknit/public>
        Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>