Realtime, numeric control machines, linux... and python!
Prototyping industrial automation components is easyer and faster with python!
RTAI (www.rtai.org) turns linux int a hard realtime system. How do we connect the realtime with the non-realtime domain? Is writing realtime components in python feasible?
EMC (www.linuxcnc.org) is a framework for computer control of machine tools, many of its extension are written in python: let's have a look.
Testing applications for numeric controlled machines: simulation of the erraric movement of an oxycut machine.
If audience finds it worth it, some theory on hard-realtime and cnc machines.