Have you seen ROBOLAB?

http://www.lego.com/dacta/robolab/defaultjava.htm

It is a Windows and Mac programming system for Mindstorm kits. It is based
on LabVIEW from National Instruments. More horse power but very visual.

Erik

>Is anyone thinking about a Squeak programming environment for the recently
>released Lego Mindstorms robotics kits?
>I am toying with the idea of offering a class that would use the kits, but
>the SW environment provided by Lego is too limited, and the alternative
>environments that's been circulating is either too technical for my
>intended audience (Stanford's non-cs non-ee undergrads) or it's Windows
>only. Squeak would be the ideal environment, both because of its openness
>and multi-platform portability and because it would allow the instructors
>to tailor the environment differently according to the different projects
>at hand. (My planned class is an introduction to AI and I would very much
>like to provide different programming approaches to allow the students to
>try out different theoretical approaches--it's much better to have
>something like a subsumption architecture available if you want to try to a
>pure feedback-based cybernetic approach to AI)
>I might try to do something myself, but I have not touched Smalltalk in a
>long, long time, and I am afraid I'll reinvent the wheel. Is anyone else
>interested is this stuff?
>
>
>Stefano
>
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