jacked in and got it working from emacs via piggieback, this is awesome. https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7o8yasr9nnubcr/Screenshot%202015-11-20%2018.35.06.png?dl=0

That's cool! (I've never actually seen a pic of Natal / Ambly being driven by Emacs)

thanks Mike! i’m pausing to document all my steps to get this far. then i’m going go through the om-next tutorial to spice up my demo a bit more