RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Why not Nintendo CNC? (was Re: Palm CNC)

Funny you should mention the Nintendo Game Boy for CNC, Singer has a silly
looking little sewing machine that does embroidery that is controlled by a
game boy. Check out http://www.sewandserge.com/s-izek.htm to see this
little guy.

John Guenther
'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
Sterling, Virginia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Jeffree [mailto:tony@...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 14:10 PM
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> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Why not Nintendo CNC? (was Re: Palm CNC)
>
>
> At 18:51 02/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Thanks fella's.....
> >
> >keep your Ears "peeled". If you find something interesting, or more that
> >is CNC palm related, please mention it. If the robotics guys are so
> >heavy into it, It'll make it to the CNC arena as soon as a programmer
> >type spends some time with it.
> >
> >I too saw some of the development proggys...... Very much like VB. I
> >have only fiddled with VB mostly in Access, but understand its methods
> >in a very limited way.
>
> Looking at the Nintendo "Game Boy"s that we finally gave in & bought for
> our kids this Xmas, it struck me that one of those could form the
> basis of
> an interesting controller, pendant, display unit or similar. $100
> gets you
> a colour screen, a bunch of push buttons, a processor, plug-in memory
> modules, and an external I/O port (used for multi-player games, but no
> doubt could be used as a means of interfacing to the driver stage
> of a CNC
> control).
>
> Has the added advantage that when you're done making swarf, you
> could plug
> in the latest "shoot-em-up" game too...
>
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
>
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