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  • Category: Knitting
  • Founded: Nov 24, 2004
  • Language: English
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148 Steve Conklin
ysconklin Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
6:04 am
Hi folks, I'm relatively new to the list. I've been working on figuring out the protocols and file formats for the Brother KH-930E. I've written a program in...
149 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
4:17 pm
... Great site Steve! Good to hear you are working on the file format too. Thanks, -- John....
150 Steve Conklin
ysconklin Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
4:43 pm
... John, I started with your notes about the location of the pattern in memory, but have mostly been finding the locations of the memos, settings for motifs,...
151 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
4:48 pm
... Yeah I worked on it a while back, and got distracted. Let me know if I can help with anything. ... Awesome. Is Python not good for this too? I'm a Perl...
152 Steve Conklin
ysconklin Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
4:55 pm
... I find the pack/unpack facilities in python very difficult to use. In particular, when you define some structure for the data and unpack it, what gets...
153 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Jul 16, 2009
6:18 pm
... Yeah I used to feel that way about C. Besides whatever paying work I find I'm also a hobbyist and embedded systems programmer. But it was real easy to get...
154 Sharon Wuerschmidt
sharonwue Send Email
Jul 17, 2009
11:42 am
Hi Steve- As more of a consumer than a producer on this group, thanks! (I'm sure I speak for all the 930 fans.) Will download and try out your emulator when I...
155 Steve Conklin
ysconklin Send Email
Jul 28, 2009
11:05 pm
I have made very good progress on the brother knitting machine file format. There is a link to the information from this page: ...
156 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Jul 28, 2009
11:20 pm
... Great stuff Steve. Thanks for the credit you made to me in the documentation, though it definitely looks like you've gone way beyond anything I got into. ...
157 Steve Conklin
ysconklin Send Email
Jul 29, 2009
9:39 pm
... Open source means standing on other people's shoulders, you're welcome. I realized today that I had left out the bit mask definitions for which variations...
158 JOSH DAVIS
vashtid Send Email
Mar 2, 2010
12:36 pm
Hello!  I would like to send emails to other members regarding my 930!  Thanks and have a great day! Hello! I would like to send emails to other members...
159 vashtid Send Email Mar 3, 2010
2:24 am
I am reburbishing my 930E and was wondering if anyone one had a service manual they would be willing to pdf.me or post? Thanks for your time! -Vashti Davis...
160 onimuoyinbo Send Email Jan 16, 2011
2:05 pm
Hello All and thank you for accepting me into this group. Please can you advise if the cable hacking technique will work on brother KH965i. Has anyone out...
161 Becky Stern
bekathwia Send Email
Jan 16, 2011
3:44 pm
The cable should be the same for the KH965i. Your best bet if you've never soldered electronics before is to find a friend who does to help you out. My cable...
162 onimuoyinbo Send Email Jan 17, 2011
6:16 pm
Thanks Becky. I found a friend who is willing to make me one for a fee. can't wait to get it now and go wild. Cheers!...
163 onimuoyinbo Send Email Jan 23, 2011
5:33 pm
Hello, I am not electronically gifted so please be gentle. Is it possible to transmit data between pc and KM using wireless signals or bluetooth? Thanks....
164 onimuoyinbo Send Email Feb 1, 2011
8:04 am
Hello John, I just wondered if a solution was ever found for a PPD emulator on PC. Thanks....
165 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Feb 1, 2011
2:40 pm
... Yes there are some Brother FB-100 emulators around. http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:brother_fb-100 https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine ...
166 onimuoyinbo Send Email Feb 1, 2011
4:29 pm
Thanks John. I found the FB100 emulator. To create my patterns, I need either DAK7 or PPD100 or higher so I wondered if a PPD100 emulator is somewhere out...
167 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Feb 1, 2011
4:51 pm
Well there are free pattern editors here http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:blf#crafty_gimp Have you tried these? -- John...
168 D
debbyshanahan Send Email
Feb 13, 2011
4:08 am
New here... I have a slew of knitting machines that I have refurbished or will refurbish when I can make room. Passaps are my favorites. I'm hoping that...
169 jhoger
jhogerhuis Send Email
Apr 12, 2011
3:48 am
A friend of mine, Rick Hanson proprietor of Club100 sells the proper belt for FB100/TPDD drives. He has been hit with some medical bills and is currently...
170 zdknits Send Email May 25, 2011
6:25 am
I am just starting out with an 940 electronic knitting machine after using punchcard models for many years. I am confused by the various interface options,...
171 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
May 26, 2011
5:43 am
... Ebay is your friend for vintage equipment. ... Probably. I haven't built that cable, but it looks like a good attempt. If you happen upon a Tandy TPDD-1 or...
172 Kidoodles3
kidoodles Send Email
May 26, 2011
10:50 pm
Please check out our site for all your needs Regards, Kidoodles DesignaKnit USB cables & Cartridges Be sure to check out the BL7USB Cable for the Brother Disk...
173 ysconklin Send Email Mar 16, 2012
5:13 pm
I did a bunch of work a while back on the data format for the KH-930e machine, and others have been using that work for some cool projects. Lately I've been...
174 Andrew Leith
andyleith Send Email
Mar 16, 2012
5:31 pm
It would be nice to run this python script on windows. I am glad to find an open place to aggregate the info  and have questions answered.There is also a...
175 ysconklin Send Email Mar 16, 2012
5:38 pm
... It turns out that some of the people who contacted my by email had been posting to Ravelry and other forums for months, but I wasn't following them. I...
176 John R. Hogerhuis
jhogerhuis Send Email
Mar 16, 2012
5:56 pm
Go for it Steve! That's what the list is here for. Thanks for all your efforts, -- John....
177 Becky Stern
bekathwia Send Email
Mar 16, 2012
6:52 pm
Yay, so the emulator script should work on windows now? There's also an adafruit forum topic about it: ...
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