We use this simple device control language as a model for remote scientific equipment control. We envision a day when all equipment is run by federated wiki and that the setups for that equipment is freely shared.
YOUTUBE vo4VWQGlx1Q Ward demonstrates various device setups stored in wiki.
We'll create an interactive plugin that talks to a microcontroller attached to a wiki server. Txtzyme is attractive because the devices are small (for localhost) and we already have one on fed.wiki.org.
Txtzyme extends the reach of the USB bus to arbitrary electrical signals. It interprets throw-away programs encoded as single-character commands bundled into short strings transmitted to a USB enabled microcontroller.