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

When I get back from a trip up North (to Washington) to return my
Daughters friend to her home, I'll pull and post a article from EDN that
talks about using a Game Boy as a Pendant. I don't know if it's cheaper
than a "Palm" but I'll bet it's a lot more rugged.
Bill Higdon
j.guenther wrote:

> 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
>>To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
>>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
>