Hi rick

alex and andreas here worked on RCX and they already contacted john but 
got no reaction.....

Stef


On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Rick Zaccone wrote:

> John Purcell <jpurcell at alum.bucknell.edu> has ported Andy Bower's
> Bot-Kit to Squeak <http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~lego>.  It allows you
> to control the Lego Mindstorms robots in Squeak.  You don't need the
> Spirit Active-X control to run it.  He has implemented everything in
> Squeak as part of his honor's thesis at Bucknell.
>
> You will need a machine with a serial port to run this code.  So far
> he has tested it using Linux and Windows 98.
>
> A couple of issues need to be addressed.
>
> - There is a bug in the handling of "if" statements.  John is working
>   on the fix.
>
> - John would like to make this code even more robust and have it run
>   using a USB port.  This would enable the code to work on a Mac.  It
>   would also make it compatible with more recent versions of the
>   Mindstorms which come with a USB IR tower.
>
> John is very interested in continuing work on this.  He will welcome
> any input he receives on improving his code.  I don't think John
> subscribes to this list, so you will need to communicate with him
> directly.
>
> Rick Zaccone
>