Re: Why not Nintendo CNC? (was Re: Palm CNC)

Amazing!

Regards,
Tony

At 21:54 02/01/2003 +0000, you 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

Regards,
Tony