The Teleo product line served many people very well for a long time, and we were very pleased about that, but ultimately it was starting to get a bit dated.  When MakingThings was presented with the opportunity to develop a new board, we were excited to apply all the lessons we had learned with Teleo to a new, more powerful and more flexible product.  We think of the Make Controller as the next generation of Teleo.

Although MakingThings will not continue to sell Teleo products, the documentation, downloads, and all the other online materials will remain available.  We will still support Teleo online, via our forum email, but we regret that we can no longer continue support via telephone.  See www.makingthings.com/teleo for all the Teleo info.

Moving On

Fortunately, there are many great things about the Make Controller that make it a much more compelling alternative to Teleo:

• It can connect via Ethernet as well as USB.
• It can be easily reprogrammed, and run standalone.
  
• It runs on a much faster processor.
• It has more onboard inputs and outputs.
• It uses a CAN network to communicate directly with other Make Controllers, which is much faster and more reliable than the RS-485 Teleo network.
• The screw-on connectors make swapping different IO devices much easier.
• All the firmware and software tools are open source.
• It communicates via OSC, an open and widely adopted protocol, so it can interface easily with many third party devices whereas the Teleo communications protocol was proprietary.