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:
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.
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Ha, I just came here to post this! It’s seriously cool, and the Navajo’s history in the semiconductor industry is something I never knew about.
I would love a rug like that.
That’s really cool that Intel had that made.
This is fascinating!
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.
At the bottom of the article there’s a tapestry of an NVIDIA graphics chip created on a computer-controlled loom.
This is funny as the first punch card program was designed to automate looms:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine