Raspberry Pi & ModBros - GPIO Control

This is not something I plan on doing soon as I have too many projects on my hands!

I was thinking, wouldn't it be awesome for the ModBros Raspberry Pi Screen that I use to have some GPIO functionality within the app via a plug-in.

My thoughts are that I could have a RGB/ARGB light strip on the unit to change colours depending on metrics or possibly just something fancy like some ARGB light animation coming from it.

It could be built up further from that too, just imagine: My GPU usage is high for X amount of time so then send commands via the raspberry Pi to get my hexapod to bring me coffee as I am busy gaming! :-D

I understand that it would need to communicate with the underlying linux on the ModBro's and set the animation/lighting depending on what the user sets.

Just thinking aloud here:
In understanding the architecture (correct me if I am wrong), the PC app is the server for the PI, the PI reaches out to get a dashboard/layout.
At that point the PI can collect the necessary data (LED settings, GPIO Pins, etc) and set them via <unknown script/program>

Technically we can do this with a cron job and a script on the PI, but I was more thinking along the lines of plugins.

What I wanted by posting this:
I just want to see other peoples views on this and whether the application is viable with the ModBro's PC → PI interface.

Disclaimer:
I haven’t RTFM'd yet for the SDK's so don't attack me! :-)