[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For this reason, "Jacquard designs can be incredibly complex, with the planning and the loom work itself controlled by computerized systems [and historically via punch cards] that lift up certain ...