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

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 there tried it? Also, is there a way to get the cable to
work without having to fuse it together. I really do not understand the fusing
part.

Thanks much.

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 works great with my 930e!

Cheers,

Becky Stern
Sternlab.org

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!

--- In kminternals@yahoogroups.com, Becky Stern <becky.stern@...> wrote:
>
> 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 works great with my 930e!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Becky Stern
> Sternlab.org
>

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.

Hello John,

I just wondered if a solution was ever found for a PPD emulator on PC.

Thanks.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:03 AM, onimuoyinbo <taifuobh@...> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> I just wondered if a solution was ever found for a PPD emulator on PC.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Yes there are some Brother FB-100 emulators around.

http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:brother_fb-100
https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine
http://www.knitandsew.demon.nl/dk/fb100emu-en.htm
http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18693

-- John.

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 there. :-)

--- In kminternals@yahoogroups.com, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:03 AM, onimuoyinbo <taifuobh@...> wrote:
> > Hello John,
> >
> > I just wondered if a solution was ever found for a PPD emulator on PC.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
> Yes there are some Brother FB-100 emulators around.
>
> http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:brother_fb-100
> https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine
> http://www.knitandsew.demon.nl/dk/fb100emu-en.htm
> http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18693
>
> -- John.
>

Well there are free pattern editors here
http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:blf#crafty_gimp

Have you tried these?


-- John

On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, onimuoyinbo <taifuobh@...> wrote:
> 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 there. :-)
>
> --- In kminternals@yahoogroups.com, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:03 AM, onimuoyinbo <taifuobh@...> wrote:
>> > Hello John,
>> >
>> > I just wondered if a solution was ever found for a PPD emulator on PC.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Yes there are some Brother FB-100 emulators around.
>>
>> http://www.k2g2.org/wiki:brother_fb-100
>> https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine
>> http://www.knitandsew.demon.nl/dk/fb100emu-en.htm
>> http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18693
>>
>> -- John.
>>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>
>
>

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
somebody will someday find a way to communicate directly from a computer
(hopefully a Mac) to the front carriage without that clunky console. Maybe I'm
hoping for too much.

The only thing I have to offer is a photo album of the interior of a Bit Knitter
made to work between the Passap e6000 knitting machine and and Amiga.

Here's a link to the album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/DebbySh/BitKnitterDetails?feat=directlink

Debby

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
trying to move some of his inventory. If anyone is interested, please contact
rick@...

http://club100.org/catalog.html

He shows them for $7 a piece on the catalog page, as well as instructions on
performing the installation.

-- John.

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, and which ones are absolutely
necessary.  I can't seem to find anywhere that maps it all out.  I don't have a
PPD or FB disk drive, nor DAK/cable setup.  It is not likely that I will have
any of them anytime soon as they seem to be either rare or expensive, or both.

I'm running Windows XP on a laptop (ergo no serial port). I am a reasonably
proficient end-user rather than a programmer.

So, can someone confirm for me that following these directions to make a cable
http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/tutorials/knittingmachine/ftdicable.html
should allow me to connect my laptop directly to my machine?

Then I need some sort of disk emulator software on my computer? Do I need to use
the same one as on her tutorial, or will the one that has the simulated
look/feel of the FB100 also work?

If I program a stitch pattern on a friend's PPD & send it to my machine, I
should then be able to upload it to my PC to store it for future use?

What if I want to design in the future (without lugging my 940 over to my
friend's house to use her PPD)?  Is there design software that will work
specifically with the cable & FB100 emulator?  Am I correct in understanding
that one pixel = a stitch? Will any program like Paint or CorelDraw that lets me
save an image as a bitmap file work?  Or do I still need DAK?  What do you
use/recommend?

OK, sorry, I've probably asked way too many questions.  Thanks in advance for
any help you can give me. :)

Z

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:25 PM, zdknits <zackds@...> wrote:
> 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, and which ones are absolutely
necessary.  I can't seem to find anywhere that maps it all out.  I don't have a
PPD or FB disk drive, nor DAK/cable setup.  It is not likely that I will have
any of them anytime soon as they seem to be either rare or expensive, or both.
>

Ebay is your friend for vintage equipment.

> I'm running Windows XP on a laptop (ergo no serial port). I am a reasonably
proficient end-user rather than a programmer.
>
> So, can someone confirm for me that following these directions to make a cable
> http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/tutorials/knittingmachine/ftdicable.html
> should allow me to connect my laptop directly to my machine?
>

Probably. I haven't built that cable, but it looks like a good attempt.

If you happen upon a Tandy TPDD-1 or -2 cable, you can use that in
tandem with a USB serial port or built-in serial port to connect to a
Brother knitting machine. That I've done myself, so I know that works.

> Then I need some sort of disk emulator software on my computer? Do I need to
use the same one as on her tutorial, or will the one that has the simulated
look/feel of the FB100 also work?
>

Either should work. Maybe some other members could give opinions on
the different software.

> If I program a stitch pattern on a friend's PPD & send it to my machine, I
should then be able to upload it to my PC to store it for future use?
>

Yes.

Not ignoring your other questions, but hopefully some others can give
you good answers.

-- John.

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 working with a couple of people by email who are trying to
figure some things out, and I'd like to ask that discussions move here in stead
of personal email. That will get more people into the loop, spread some
knowledge, and record the discussions for the future.

Any objections? It seems pretty much like what the charter of this group is, but
I wanted to check first.

Steve Conklin

https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine

http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_Technical_Informatio\
n

http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=REKnittingData

--- In kminternals@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Leith <andyleith@...> wrote:
>
> 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
discussion about your hack on Ravelry. people are frustrated trying to get the
scripts to run.
> Thanks for the work Steve.
>

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 updated
the documentation in the got repository encouraging people to email me, and if
we move discussions to this list I'll publicize that as well.

I suspect that someone may have gotten the emulator running under windows, but
I've not heard from them. I do have reports of various problems with the serial
port library on windows.

The problem that was discussed on ravelry and in other places was a simple bug
in the disk emulator, which only happened on the KH-940 machine. It's already
fixed in the repository - I just wish I had heard about it sooner. Months went
by before anyone emailed me directly about it.

Steve

Go for it Steve! That's what the list is here for.

Thanks for all your efforts,

-- John.

Has anybody worked with the kh965i? It's similar, but has an extra
feature for pattern manipulation.

Debby
====================


>1a. OK for me to push some new discussion here?
>     Posted by: "ysconklin" steve@... ysconklin
>     Date: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:13 am ((PDT))
>
>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 working with a couple of people by email who are
>trying to figure some things out, and I'd like to ask that
>discussions move here in stead of personal email. That will get more
>people into the loop, spread some knowledge, and record the
>discussions for the future.
>
>Any objections? It seems pretty much like what the charter of this
>group is, but I wanted to check first.
>
>Steve Conklin
>
>https://github.com/adafruit/knitting_machine
>
>http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_Technical_Informati\
on
>
>http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=REKnittingData

Steve Conklin!

How wonderful! I think you're work is great and I, too, have been trying to do
your knitting machine hack. I am just at the beginning, rewiring my FTDI cable.
The tutorial on adafruit says that it might be possible to include setRTS() in
the python code so that the green wire doesn't need to be spliced with the red
wire. I have very little programming knowledge so I'm not sure how to do that.
Can you help clarify that?

Thanks so much for starting this forum.

Alea Khan

Sent from my iPhone

Alea,

Absolutely, you can wire the FTDI interface so that it uses hardware
flow control, and it only needs simple jumpers if you do that. A
couple of caveats:

1. Connect the FTDI interface as shown on this page under "Building
the Interface":
http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_Serial_Connections

2. The signal levels may have to be 5V and not 3.3V. I've had mixed
results using 3.3V FTDI cables. I think it will work. Try it and see,
but if it doesn't work, that may be the problem. On the Adafruit FTDI
Friend, you can change the voltage with a jumper. If you're using the
cable, it's a fixed voltage.

3. You have to invert the signals using the FT_PROG  tool, same as the
Adafruit tutorial. Invert all the signals, including the flow control.

4. You have to open the port with flow control turned on. For now, you
have to edit the file PDDemulate.py and change the following line:

self.ser = serial.Serial(port=cport, baudrate=9600, parity='N',
stopbits=1, timeout=1, xonxoff=0, rtscts=0, dsrdtr=0)

- Change it to "rtscts=1"

Currently that's on line 287 in PDDemulate.

I started a major rewrite of PDDemulate which includes this as a
command line option, but other things came up and it's not done. I
hope to get back to this soon.

Please let me know your results, whether it works or not.

Steve

Hello I am new to this group.  Could anybody help me with a service manual or
wiring diagram for a Brother KH910 and a 950I.  My Machines have been in the
loft for a few years, but I now have more time and would like to use them again,
But sadly the other day when I set them up and then turnned them on a noise and
puff of smoke came from under the needles on the right hand side of the machine,
just near the end that the mains lead plugs in.

I am hoping that it could be just a simple component that has gone which could
be bought locally, my husband is a ex tv enginer.  I did make enqiries with a
shop and they said it would cost £45 to repair, but it would cost me more to
send them to them for repair, they are at the other end of the country.

So I thought that if I had some more details of what it could be I could ask my
Husband to repair them for me.

Waiting with fingers crossed, I so enjoyed using my machines before.