• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Ha, I just came here to post this! It’s seriously cool, and the Navajo’s history in the semiconductor industry is something I never knew about.

    I would love a rug like that.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    considers

    You could probably do these automatically, given an automated loom – one of our first forms of programmable industrial hardware – and a chip layout description.

    kagis

    Here’s an inexpensive computer-controlled loom for $10k-$15k:

    https://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/weave/weavebird.htm

    I assume that the same design could be scaled up with larger motors and parts, worst case, so that probably puts a ceiling on about what it’d cost to do this automatically.

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      2 months ago

      At the bottom of the article there’s a tapestry of an NVIDIA graphics chip created on a computer-controlled loom.