My understanding of distributed computing is vague at best.
However, at first glance, it looks like overkill – my plan is to have an arduino and a few inexpensive microchips handle those tasks. The arduino is mostly just setting the X and Y coordinates, reading the Z coordinate, and then sending all three back to the computer via USB.

Basically: the hardware I’m replacing isn’t doing much computation.

Is there something I’m not understanding? Again, my knowledge of that field is not very deep.

S