The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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• ThemboMcBembo@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is fascinating!

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• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s really cool that Intel had that made.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨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:

  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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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is funny as the first punch card program was designed to automate looms:

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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