Pavel, that is really nice. I like those kind of projects (well, I hate them, too, because I don't find time to do that stuff). If you are looking for a new one. A port of moppy [1] to pharo would be cool. Then we could do things like this [2] from pharo.
Norbert [1] http://dduino.blogspot.de/2011/10/moppy-playing-music-with-floppy-drives.html [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q Am 22.03.2012 um 14:47 schrieb Pavel Krivanek: > Hi, > > I would like to mention one funny usage of Pharo. I have got an old > simple czech plotter from 1989 named XY4150. It is no secret that the > interactive environment of Smalltalk is ideal for controlling such > machines because it is very easy to send commands to it and experiment > with drawing capabilities. > > Even today such old hardware can find a real-life production > deployment. I currently use it to write owner names to plastic cards > with pre-printed bar codes by a special pen destined to sign credit > cards :-) > > It is controlled by Arduino however LPT can be used too. > > Btw. there was several interesting czech plotters. The most > interesting one was named Merkur Alfi. It was a construction set for > children with two stepper motors and one relay. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmFYzyL9eo > > And they started to sell it recently again so if you are looking for > some cool hardware for your children, you can look here: > http://www.merkurtoys.cz/vyrobky/plotrovy-zapisovac-alfi-z-merkuru[1] > But it's about 139€ so it's quite expensive... > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > <pharo-plotter2.JPG>
