Squeak in robotics

Rick Zaccone zaccone at bucknell.edu
Wed Mar 19 10:22:09 UTC 2003


>Hello squeak list.
>My name is Johannes and I just subscribed to the list. Hope I can find it
>useful. I'm currently working on a project in robotics at Queensland
>University of Technology, Australia. The idea of the project is to use
>Squeak as a base for programming smart devices in a distributed manner.
>Squeaks dynamic and effective OO properties makes it suitable for this
>topic, and the open source and portability are also important. The only
>problem is that Squeak is sequential and does not work in a distributed
>manner. Hopefully my work will result in a Squeak version that's possible
>to run distributed and fully concurrent, for you people to enjoy. And of
>course a port that's suposed to be used in embedded devices.
>I will probably run in to questions along the way and hope it's ok to throw
>them out here.
>I got the first one here, and I'm wondering whether there has been any work
>with Squeak related to my work, and related to the earlier tries with
>'Concurrent Smalltalk' and various distributed Smalltalk ideas?

I have a student who is working on a Squeak port of the Bot-Kit
<http://www.object-arts.com/Bower/Bot-Kit/>.  He is making good
progress and I hope to have something to release to this list within
the next 3 weeks (rough estimate).

Rick



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