> Amazing... Once, I couldn't get enough of playing with steppers...

Well, yes, I could sit here all day and make them go round and round,
backwards and forwards

But then what?

I'm going to post them this video, which I find endlessly fascinating and
a wonderful repository of motion at work, and see if it inspires anything

Mechanical Principles, by Ralph Steiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0yVc52QP9rY

It seems to me that kids now don't do most things that we used to,
mechanically speaking, because so much now is digital and, for want
of a better term, pre-packaged with next to no mechanical hackability.
Or it's so cheap if it breaks you just throw it away rather than repair

I can imagine that in the not-too-distant future, things like stepper
motors will be almost obsolete in most appliances as they are replaced
with solid state. The floppy drive has gone, the CD/DVD drive will be
next, then the HDD

> Maybe a Twitter stepper app?

Go on ......

Joe
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