My Compu-Dobby is off to Chico tomorrow for repairs! We did all the diagnostics we could here, replaced cables, replaced the keyspan adaptor, and ran other tests. We established that the Compu-Dobby is functional (for instance, it weaves tabby perfectly when the tabby button is pressed) but it doesn't seem to talk to the computer. My gut feeling is that it's the port on the Compu-Dobby component itself - since the computer can't find the loom, I suspect that the port is damaged.
Hopefully it won't be very expensive to do whatever repair it takes. I am excited that this is moving forward! Crossing my fingers.
Last weekend a few of us gathered at friend Tien's and assembled her new TC-2 loom, which had just arrived from its manufacturer in Norway. It was a totally fun day, with the loom going together well, and cake and champagne afterwards! And also fun because everyone there was either an engineer or a weaver (or both), so people were very good at figuring out how to get it all together AND we even had time to put a warp on it and get it threaded through about 2/3 of the heddles. Tien was able to weave her first piece on the loom the next day, with a fabulous 'Hello World!' on it.
I'm thinking that once my Compu-Dobby returns from AVL in Chico, that I'll do a test warp of a few yards, 8 inches in width, of perle cotton, just to try out some of the extended repeat sequences I will be able to enact with the Compu-Dobby. Excited!
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