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- | ====== Brother KH-930e knitting machine ====== | ||
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- | Adventures in communicating with the Brother KH-930e knitting machine! | ||
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- | ===== Make your own cable ===== | ||
- | The kh930e is designed to work with a Tandy PDD1 floppy drive. We don't need it! Make your own cable to communicate between your computer and the machine. You will need: | ||
- | * Inverted [[http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18&products_id=70&zenid=08edecd591934eebcc4993c01b0259d6|FTDI cable]] reprogrammed with [[http://www.ftdichip.com/Resources/Utilities.htm|FTDI MProg ]] (windows only) | ||
- | * 2x4 connector part number [[http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=WM8036-ND|WM8036-ND on Digikey]] | ||
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- | ===== Python code ===== | ||
- | * available on [[http://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine|github]] | ||
- | * based on [[http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_Technical_Information|Steve Conklin's knitting machine code]] | ||
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- | ===== Outside resources ===== | ||
- | * [[http://www.devicemanuals.com/guide/Knitting%20Machine/Brother/Brother-KH-930-Knitting-Machine-Owner%27s-Manual-T0RJNU9UUT.html|KH-930e manual] fill out a CAPTCHA to download the PDF manual | ||
- | * [[http://zephyrfalcon.org/labs/python_pitfalls.html|Python pitfalls]] - helped spot a bug | ||
- | * [[http://www.softbyte.co.uk/brothl1.htm#Troubleshooting%20Uploading%20and%20Downloading%20with%20Brother%20KH940,%20KH950i,%20KH965i,%20KH970|Troubleshooting Brother machines]] - includes how to do an 888 reset of memory | ||
- | * [[http://www.howtomendit.com/answers.php?id=124420|Good forum post]]- includes what to do when all the machine will do is flash "888" | ||
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