3D printing socks isn’t really a thing yet. You’d end up with scratchy plastic garments that irritate your feet no end. You can easily 3D print all kinds of nifty little mechanisms, tho… ...

By using digital fabrication and makers’ tools, like 3D printing, laser cutting, makerbeam, and Arduino, we have designed an automated and replicable circular knitting machine.” ...

In a pre-print paper titled ‘ Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes ’, CMU’s Vidya Narayanan, Lea Albaugh, Jessica Hodgins, Stelian Coros, and Jim McCann detail a methodology for ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the possibility of “on-demand knitting.” Think 3D printing, but softer.