It sounds like it's more fun than practical. My Android phone hardly works as a phone. I can't imagine using it to control a VMC. I'd like to see an old 60's TV as a GUI with a re-purposed Calliope used for a keyboard or similar.
On 03/20/2016 12:19 PM, Ralph Stirling wrote: > I don't think their immediate focus is lowering cost, but in reorganizing > the system for distributed modularity. The basic BBB implementation > is pretty low cost, though, and is in use by a lot of people for 3d printing. > > They have a gui running on Android devices, so you can have a $40 BBB, > a $70 "cape" that connects four stepper motors, and your phone for gui. > The step pulse generation is done by the PRU module in the BBB's ARM > processor. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
