Crochet is a 10,000-year-old practice of needlework. What separates crochet from other forms of needlework is that it uses a single hook needle to create stitches. in
Addition the geometry of the different knots that are used in crochet can create all kinds of 3D topology, including non-Euclidean geometries. Even though this form of needlework is very special there is currently no machine that crochet automatedly. This project is a part of the research done by Tamar Nix in her doctoral dissertation in the MTRL laboratory in the faculty of architecture in the Technion. In Tamar’s research a machine was created to be able to crochet in an automated manner. The purpose of our project was to write the embedded code that is used by this machine and create a first of its kind stitching algorithm. At the end of this project, we managed to create 3 successive stitch patterns using the Automated Crochet Machine.