Presented at the April 2014 "What Do You Know - Sydney" event. More details on my blog here: http://web-goddess.org/archive.php/postID/11758

1. FLICKR: @STÉFAN

2. GRANNY WAS A HACKER
KNITTING AS
COMPUTER CODE

3. BINARY
KNITTING
• “Decoder Hat” by Zabet
Stewart
• Ribbing used to encode
binary message.
• One = knit; zero = purl
• Message length restricted
by size of hat. 96 stitches =
12 ASCII characters in
binary at 8 stitches each

4. BINARY
KNITTING
• “Binary Scarf” by
heycarrieann
• Source code of ravelry.com
(knitting website)
converted into binary

5. BINARY
KNITTING
• “The Viral Knitting Project”
by Kirsty Robertson and
Roberto Buiani
• Code Red computer virus
turned into a knitting
pattern

6. F L ICKR :@DE VABURGE R RAV E L RY:@CYN

7. BINARY
KNITTING
• “Braille Socks” by Jessica
Landers
• Uses knit and purl stitches
to mimic Braille writing
• Encodes a stanza from Dr.
Seuss’s Oh, The Places
You'll Go!

8. CODED COLOURS
FLICKR:@ADAMKNITS

9. CODED
COLOURS
• “Morse Code” by Kate
Atherley
• Uses colour to represent
dots and dashes
• Left mitten reads “My Left
Mitten”, thumb reads
“Thumb”, etc

10. FROM: KNITTY.COM
F ROM: S T R INGGE EKE RY.COM F ROM: WOOL LY THOUGHT S

11. CODED
COLOURS
• Probably the most literal
example of knitted code
• Average scarf holds about
120 bytes of information
FLICKR: @JACQUELINE-W

12. QR CODE
• Yes, it really works.
FLICKR: @BEKATHWIA

13. REALLY GEEKY STUFF
FLICKR: @BEKATHWIA

14. ARECIBO
MESSAGE
• Filet crochet by Devon
• Message written by Carl
Sagan (and others),
broadcast into space via
radio wave in 1974
• Includes atomic numbers,
double helix of DNA,
graphic of solar system,
etc

15. KNITTED
APPLICATION
• iTunes No. 6 by Phillip
Stearns
• Digital forensics tools used
to extract, process, and
visualise raw binary data
• Knitted and woven by
computer

16. THANK YOU
Kris Howard @web_goddess