Found out from my local yarn store that a regional yarn store had new-in-box electronic #knitting machines on sale incredibly cheap. Unfortunately (fortunately?) they had sold out by the time I called them. Not that I had the space for one, but it seemed too good to pass up.
@kyle Electronic knitting machines? Somehow I was unaware of such a thing!
Meg is a knitting machine, but she's mostly powered by coffee...
@jzb Yes I just got a flatbed knitting machine that is programmable with punch cards (https://social.librem.one/@kyle/109293539394599154), but apparently there are also electronically-controlled ones as well. This sort of tech seems to have hit its heyday in the `90s from the bit of research I've gathered so far.
Adafruit had a project to "modernize" the interface to one:
@kyle Oh, that's very cool. That looks like a lot of fun to work with.