Then it come to telephones real buttons are at an advantage then dialing. The 
touch screen is however nice for other purposes.



On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:50:44 -0500
bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> 
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