This is sew cool!

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://media.berninausa.com/index.php/artista">http://media.berninausa.com/index.php/artista</a><br /><br />Bernina USA has released the first and only sewing and embroidery system that uses Microsoft Windows CE. You can store sewing patterns and other information in folders, or file drawers, you can connect to the internet with the PCMCIA modem to share patterns or buy premium content from Bernina's <i>myartista</i> Portal. There are even ports to plug in an external CD-ROM and other USB peripherals.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20020717-cesew.jpg" /><br /><br />Interesting to see this thread in the fabric of Windows CE development. Never before has any product taken advantage of the multithreading capabilities of the Windows CE operating system as this will. It seams Bernina has this high end of the sewing market buttoned up. I know these devices are going to be in good hands too since their customers are the worlds best at applying patches. I don't know about you, but I am on pins and needles waiting for the <i>artista 200E</i> to begin shipping. Source: John Mierau

[Jason Dunn]

...groan...

...must get stomach...pumped....too..many.....puns....

Truly that was a deadly display of pun ability. :werenotworthy:

[Fitch]

Normally I'd snatch up this oppurtunity to add, but I have nothing. That was puntastic. :werenotworthy:

[jpmierau]

Ed... yer a pun-zen master, a 'thimble' of knowledge cut from a differnet cloth & yes, you've got me in stitches!

Thinkin' about sending my leads to anyone BUT Ed from now on (grin). Keep it up, and I'll have you bronzed!

John

www.compu2go.com
~ultramobile computing & tech for people on the Move~

[Janak Parekh]

Truly that was a deadly display of pun ability. :werenotworthy:

Hmm, now I see why EdH, of all people, suggested the "we're not worthy" smiley. :lol:

Seriously though, out of curiosity, how much does MS charge for a base WinCE license?

--bdj

[sundown]

Hehe, funny. Actually this looks like a kewl product. I mean, not that I'm into sewing or anything but you could make logos on shirts and stuff easily.

[tonyv]

Ed, you leave me in stitches.

[Andy Sjostrom]

:werenotworthy:

[nz0eBoy]

Headline:

*** Ed Hansberry auditions for the next AUstin Powers Movie ***

[Hyperluminal]

Yes, this is leaving me in stitches. Ed, you're as sharp as a tack, and this is leaving me stuffed with delight. Yes, this is one master thread. Hey, look at that, my printer's done spooling... :)

[Venturello]

CE is used in SO many more things. At a logistics expo here in Barcelona a month ago, very large one, I was amazed at how many CE applications there are. TONS more than Palm, which used to be used a lot for data adquisition. The once that impressed me the most was a control terminal for a wharehouse management system. This is an automated system, a robot, only magnitudes larger, which moves in rails inside a wharehouse to locate and move pallets from a 5 story high complex of rows after rows of storage structure (sorry about my english). Something like this:

http://www.awaoy.fi/Pages/deep%20lane.html

From the CE console, an operator could do things like:
view the status of any of the several operating robots on the warehouse.
track down the location of any item and see a diagram of its location and,
order a robot to gather the item and send it to a specific location.
package an item to a client

All of this from a central database, updated in realtime, both with a keyboard and a pen pointer.

This application was VERY graphical, and though not 3D, showed smooth 2D animations of what was happening, real time.

Of all the applications I saw, this one was the one that impressed me the most.

BTW, my thesis was a computer application that controlled a robotic arm. You could see the robot on 3D, plot paths through space, simulate the trajectories and then make the robot itself follow this path. All this through serial port... at the end I wanted to learn programming my iPaq, and well... the iPaq has a serial port right? So I did a port of the application (sans 3D) to the iPaq, and from here I could download programs from the robot, edit them, control the robot itself and download programs to it, a lot easier and faster than with the 'pendant' panel the robot has. Ideally, you could use a similar app on a production plant to check the (larger than this academical one) robots, update their programs, keep track of their stats, etc. Got no screenshots of the program on the iPaq, but here's a screenshot of the desktop app:

http://venturello.com/files/Robot.gif

Just thought this could be interesting to you guys, the power of a pocket computer is still VERY unexploited but there are MANY interesting applications out there which get very little attention from the consumer market (us).

Bye!

Juan

[kaiden.1]

Ok...... Time to get serious! First of all in the sewing market, Bernina is ranked at the top. It is the Rolex Watch of the sewing machine market! Swiss Made. For those who are in that industry, it is known for being the easiest and most user friendly to operate, and the Bernina Sewing Machine is known to out last all of the competition with the fewest amoount of repairs!

The Puns are cute, but Bernina only puts out the best. The have premium service and stand behind there product like I have not seen any other company do in a long time. You can even trade in your old machine for a new one and practically get the same dollar for dollar trade in value that you bought the machine for if you upgrade to a newer model, and they have no problem selling the used ones either, at practically full price. This company knows what their customers want and they know how to deal with them.

HIGH FIVE Bernina! For another excellent Product! Wish the Computer industry was 1/2 as good and we'd all be singin!

[klinux]

Where's the cold and hard reset button on this thing? When can we expect the update service pack?? :wink:

[spg]

CE is used in SO many more things.
Don't you mean - "CE is used in SEW many more things."? :lol:

Great post Ed, sew much fun I nearly fell off of my spool (Uhh, I mean stool).

[Ed Hansberry]

Ok...... Time to get serious! First of all in the sewing market, Bernina is ranked at the top. It is the Rolex Watch of the sewing machine market! Swiss Made. For those who are in that industry, it is known for being the easiest and most user friendly to operate, and the Bernina Sewing Machine is known to out last all of the competition with the fewest amoount of repairs!
Thanks for the info Kaiden. Pretty cool actually. That makes the premier sewing machine maker using WinCE and one of the premier auto makers - BMW. I did have fun with the last para of the post, but put solid info in the first.

Sometimes it is hard to thread that needle between seriousness and having a good time. :wink:

[Lotto]

Truly cool! The price tag should be real pretty on this baby too. As kaiden.1 said Bernina is top of the line, they have made a huge breakthrough computerwise, where no other line of sewing machines has even broken the surface. Soon, you won't even have to know a thing about sewing to open a business!

[pderathe]

A sewing machine on this site !

LOL :P :P

A site dedicated to PDA and WIRELESS ! That's really fun . Thank you !

[voodoo]

I wish I had the money to PLAY with this neat technology. A coworker sent this to me in response:

--12 July 2002 Will Home Appliances Be the Next Target For Viruses?
Virus expert Eugene Kaspersky warns that embedded computers in home
appliances provide an appealing target for virus writers because they
will have a common operating system and millions of potential victims.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-943408.html
[Editor's Note (Schultz): Kaspersky might well be correct.
The monoculture that Microsoft has created has already proverbially
bitten us several times, and Murphy's Law says that matters will only
get worse.
(Grefer): Kaspersky's warning should serve as a reminder to include
defense mechanism in the appliances' operating system(s), and
preferably design it with security in mind, rather than trying to
apply security as an after-thought.]

[Lotto]

I can see it now....I sew a family crest on a sweatshirt, and low and behold appears the AOL symbol! :lol:

[Jason Dunn]

A site dedicated to PDA and WIRELESS ! That's really fun . Thank you !

Hey, it was tagged as "Off Topic"! :wink: We thought it was neat that it ran the same core OS as the Pocket PC.