Hello!
I quite agree.
And while your suggestions do make plenty of sense (Here it is just approaching 7AM, and a new rather hot and hazy summer style day is starting.)
I've begun to realize that if this whole idea is to work, it would require a near or total rewrite of the Malmo code to work properly now.
And that's only the regular Arduino code to to consider. They also posted a raw Processing blob that I've yet to consider.
This whole entire idea is yet another attempt of mine to consider an application for the Pachube http://www.pachube.com to, ah, process and then respond to. I tried to get everything to work, about, two years previously. It didn't want to work then.
I'll have more luck when their entire site is available.
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