Machines and robots displace working people from manufacturing, leaving only jobs for operators and maintenance personnel. University of art and design Lausanne (ECAL) in the age of high-tech upgrades of the plants offered their students a fun project "Low-Tech Factory" ("low-tech factory"), the aim of which was to create a simple, entertaining machines with automated and slow production. Students Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex have participated in it and developed a cool rocking chair Rocking-Knit, know how to knit a winter hat.
Creative rocking chair Rocking-Knit is knitting hats with measured rocking it user, turning a relaxing vacation into a useful activity or purposeful work into a pleasant pastime. It differs from the usual rocking chairs functional a small superstructure consisting of a holder spool of yarn, knitting machine and its drive. When the original rocking chair Rocking-Knit knitting machine begins to create a headdress thanks to the oscillations of a pendulum that spins the gears of the drive.
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