jacquard

That'd make it a kind of ancestor to digital computers, before various automata and then Jacquard and Babbage.

Surely the Jacquard loom and its punch-card system, patented in 1801, pre-date the piano rolls of the 1900's?

Likewise, if you've heard of Jacquard or his invention, then the homage here is obvious as well.

Because mkempe is accusing Project Jacquard of appropriating a historical figure's name for their own gain.

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a genius and Google should not use his name without proper acknowledgement.

If Jacquard fabric was used on Knyttan-enabled looms, anyone (designers, anyone else) could effectively print/knit one-off pieces of connected clothing.

Textile economies are a mostly waste of human ingenuity and time, and have been since the Jacquard Loom at least.

Perhaps UV sensors should be added to the worn materials themselves - something integrating Google's Project Jacquard and small UV sensors.

By the same logic - Projects Jacquard and Vault shouldn't have been announced either.

There is a reason we have the Jacquard loom and not a thousand weavers and seamsters and seamstresses.

My initial interest was driven by the osloom project (an open-source Jacquard Loom)...

Then again, could we say that the Jacquard Loom was actually the first 3D (2D?) printer?

The project Jacquard site describes some output: "We developed innovative techniques to attach the conductive yarns to connectors and tiny circuits, no larger than the button on a jacket...

The very fact that a multi-billion dollar company used by billions of people uses the name "Jacquard" is the biggest acknowledgement and recognition he could have ever gotten these days.

It's one thing to suggest adding a note about the historical Jacquard, another to take umbrage at an innocent name.

Where in Google's product page is there a statement about Jacquard, the creator?

It really bothers me that Google hijacks Jacquard's name for their own project.