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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving (www.righto.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

considers

You could probably do these automatically, given an automated loom -- one of our first forms of programmable industrial hardware -- and a chip layout description.

kagis

Here's an inexpensive computer-controlled loom for $10k-$15k:

https://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/weave/weavebird.htm

I assume that the same design could be scaled up with larger motors and parts, worst case, so that probably puts a ceiling on about what it'd cost to do this automatically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

At the bottom of the article there's a tapestry of an NVIDIA graphics chip created on a computer-controlled loom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This is funny as the first punch card program was designed to automate looms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine