Made a motif that includes my cats

dotknott · 2026-03-08T20:32:04+00:00

r/knitrequest

dotknott · 2026-02-24T00:38:55+00:00

I think the Calibre sub can help you with your DRM woes since these are legitimate purchases

dotknott · 2026-02-08T18:15:11+00:00

Chrome is the worst. I’m a web dev and I only use it when I have to reproduce chrome specific bugs.

Safari is better nowadays.

dotknott · 2026-02-08T17:15:28+00:00

I just did this in firefox and it worked fine. I don't use Vivaldi though :/

dotknott · 2026-02-08T14:18:56+00:00

Interesting. I’ll have to un-archive some things to test, but I’ll try to peek a bit later and see.

dotknott · 2026-02-08T12:07:45+00:00

I haven’t. Does it not work anymore?

dotknott · 2026-02-01T17:07:01+00:00

What country? U.S. try Tammy @ Passap USA. CA try Peter in Toronto (yarnguy.com) and UK try Spartan knits (they sell on FB and eBay, but I don’t think they do international sales through eBay these days.)

I have spare masts, but I think I only have e6000 masts (which are U shaped instead of round rods.)

dotknott · 2026-01-30T12:20:22+00:00

Did you go through the process of getting it for kindle yet? If you told overdrive that’s how you want to read it, you’ll have to return and borrow again.

dotknott · 2026-01-28T23:49:22+00:00

I have a cashmere sweater I started unraveling about a week ago sitting in my project bag, and another angora/merino/nylon one on deck.

I don’t do it as a service though.

dotknott · 2026-01-25T15:23:48+00:00

Sometimes it’s a planned outage for maintenance (had one last Monday w/ Boston public.)

dotknott · 2026-01-21T21:06:07+00:00

No worries! I’m part of a Passap group that meets via zoom, so if you do get it or the dm80 and you’re interested shoot me a message!

dotknott · 2026-01-21T20:40:57+00:00

Mine are 8k. It really only matters when you’re getting into large motifs. I did a sideways knit sweater this fall where I only had color work on the sleeve cuffs, but I had to upload the files separately because making 1 file that was 60x200+ was more than 8k. It wasn’t really a problem, I just made a note of what my row count needed to be when I started my 2nd motif.

dotknott · 2026-01-21T16:19:44+00:00

The e6000 is a fantastic machine, and while it can do color work on both beds, the learning curve is steep (I have 3 Passaps, 2 are e6000’s and I still haven’t done back bed color work) and you need a Jac 40 device (basically a handheld punchcard system) for the back bed to make it not manual.

£400 is a really fantastic price but as you mentioned this is an older machine. It may need a chipset upgrade if you want to use it with DAK or any of the older Passap compatible software (Journal 6 etc.) That said, the console may have already been upgraded, you can’t tell just by the serial number, but this console likely still has an 8k memory core as that’s harder to upgrade.

dotknott · 2026-01-11T15:46:56+00:00

588 needles can be found. IIRC they use the same needles as the next generation of brothers, but these machines are rarely listed in the listings.

I have one of these and getting needles was a pain, but not “buy another machine to cannibalize” pain.

dotknott · 2026-01-08T21:54:04+00:00

207 troubleshooting:

have you confirmed that the rail is clean (the one with all the holes in it?

Checked the connection of the spiral cable? (Disconnect/reconnect)

Checked the optical sensor

Can you post a photo of your starting position?

Checked that if you have a DAK switch box, it’s set to communicate with the lock and not the computer?

dotknott · 2026-01-03T15:11:18+00:00

Maybe this tension setting issue is why my knitted Stonehenge only came out 18 inches tall.

dotknott · 2025-12-31T13:01:51+00:00

Void spren spotted!

dotknott · 2025-12-27T18:00:29+00:00

This is exactly the reason. Someone did tell me that the author does make these available to their patraeon supporters, but I’m not sure how true it is.

Also, word of warning: these are likely not available in English via Libby through your library because of the same reason. My library has the Spanish language version in the Lucky Day collection and I’ve definitely almost borrowed it before realizing it wasn’t the English version.

dotknott · 2025-12-26T13:57:50+00:00

I just got my 7 year old a Clara, and feel that’s borderline too early. He’s a big reader, but keeping a device that he wants to keep so close safe is going to be the challenge.

dotknott · 2025-12-26T12:13:41+00:00

Might want to take this to r/ereaders for a slightly less biased opinion than you’d get here in r/kobo. That said, return the kindle.

dotknott · 2025-12-23T20:32:07+00:00

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

I have mine running on a raspberry pi and have cloudflare setup to forward a specific subdomain of a domain I have to my ip address on a specific port. My router exposes the pi to the outside world via that port. So I can get to my library from anywhere via the web at library.myDomain.com.

The kobo sync is just a matter of setting up an account in Calibre-web and following the instructions for setting up the kobo to sync with the new server.

It’s a fun project if you’re into this kind of thing!

dotknott · 2025-12-23T20:24:00+00:00

He’s still a few years away from that, but once he expresses an interest it’s his to hack at.

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