An automated loom that transformed the 19th century textile industry and became the inspiration for future data processing machines. Developed by the French silk-weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard ...

v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom ... of the Maker Faire graciously found space for it. The entire loom is controlled by computer – no punched cards required – and is build out of ...

Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

A Raspberry Pi automated loom for example, or a CNC Jacquard loom. Thanks to our Shenzhen contributor-at-large, [Naomi Wu] for the tip.