Use a digital image from your computer and simple software such as Paint or GIMP under Windows, Mac or Linux and create beautiful knits. We upgrade your old Brother knitting machines with our AYAB electronic shields. In a few easy steps you replace the existing control board of your machine with the AYAB controller. Then plugin in the cable with the Arduino part to your computer and start knitting with your PC like in the 21st century!

We are creating compelling wearables that provide exciting haptic feedback. Our approach achieves a low hardware footprint by leveraging the user's own muscle power through electrical-muscle stimulation. We demonstrate how our research at the Human Computer Interaction lab in the Hasso Plattner Institute enables wearable devices to become more immersive without sacrificing their form factor.

Valentina is a new Free and Open Source patternmaking software for fashion designers and manufacturers with an app like interface. Valentina patterns can fit an actual person using precision formulas and real body measurements. Valentina provides tools to reduce the amount of manual work required for patternmaking. The project uses open data formats which are readable by any computer system.

Hard Core Vein is a wearable prototype suit like piece that combines fashion with technology, music, and 3D printed illustrations. The suit is made of transparent tubes with ink in them. The tubes form patterns and illustrative figures, and are connected to small pumps that respond to musical beats. The liquid can thus be made to move to the rhythm of the music, just like blood being pumped through arteries.

Body Apps helps users to collect and manage their body data. Individual measurements can be stored offline or online where they can be shared with garment sellers that can match their cloth to their customers. Based on the data customized patterns can be generated for tailor-made clothes. The app generates 3D figures, that can ultimately be dressed and exported to virtual realities. The project is supported by Google Summer of Code 2014.

Embroidermodder is a free machine embroidery software tool that supports a variety of formats and allows the user to add custom modifications to their embroidery designs. One of the byproducts of Embroidermodder 2 was the creation of libembroidery. libembroidery is written in C. It supports reading and writing of a variety of embroidery formats, and several vector formats which are not commonly used in embroidery.