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> ... found the prices - 202 (2rows) around 70$, 204
> (4 rows) around 100$ 8-)
Oh sorry, Jamaco here in the US had them, $99 I think. Pretty spendy.
Lately I've been wondering if FiveD could be ported to the Dragonball CPU. I just snagged another Palm off of ebay for $8.50 (total delivered.) This page has info about adding a internal tilt sensor to the Palm III and Palm Professional. (There's a plug in version and below that on the page there's the hardwired version.) It's wired to 4 unused i/o ports on the Dragonball. If there's enough i/o to synchronize all the steppers on a reprap at once, that's a rock bottom microcontroller solution right there. Plus you would have a touch sensitive screen, SD card slot, maybe bluetooth. serial/USB or both depending on model, and some kinds came with wi-fi too, though you're not likely to get that for $10.
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> ... found the prices - 202 (2rows) around 70$, 204
> (4 rows) around 100$ 8-)
Oh sorry, Jamaco here in the US had them, $99 I think. Pretty spendy.
Lately I've been wondering if FiveD could be ported to the Dragonball CPU. I just snagged another Palm off of ebay for $8.50 (total delivered.) This page has info about adding a internal tilt sensor to the Palm III and Palm Professional. (There's a plug in version and below that on the page there's the hardwired version.) It's wired to 4 unused i/o ports on the Dragonball. If there's enough i/o to synchronize all the steppers on a reprap at once, that's a rock bottom microcontroller solution right there. Plus you would have a touch sensitive screen, SD card slot, maybe bluetooth. serial/USB or both depending on model, and some kinds came with wi-fi too, though you're not likely to get that for $10.