Robert

what is the memory footprint of your robots?
Let us know how we can help.
http://www.squeakbyexample.org/ is one way :)

Stef

On 15 déc. 07, at 03:04, Robert F. Scheer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm the President of the local robotics club, the Portland Area  
> Robotics
> Society and a fairly new squeaker.  Jon Hylands posted a little bit of
> Squeak hype from me awhile ago.
>
> My personal robot development is coming along pretty well and I'm  
> still
> quite interested in this language.  Still a raw newbie though.
>
> Now we're starting a rather big project within our club that we hope
> will establish a very popular open-source outdoor robot kit for $500.
> By popular, it all depends on how well it performs, but it might  
> end up
> with thousands in the field.  It's performance goal is to be the best
> RoboMagellan robot to date so it must rapidly navigate on an unmarked
> course of around a mile in length and use vision to locate and touch
> (softly) a few orange traffic cones.  This has historically been a  
> tough
> bag of requirements and we'd like to catalyze a breakthrough entry  
> point
> to the hobby.
>
> Who knows.
>
> I was thinking it would be a good idea to use Squeak for this project
> but it will be a tough sell because literally nobody knows anybody who
> uses Squeak for robots.  The opinion ranges from mostly totally  
> ignorant
> to negative.  Only one well-known roboticist in our sphere of
> communication uses Squeak and that's Jon Hylands.  Lots of people use
> assembly language on microcomputers.  Most people use C/C++ and Java I
> think.
>
> Is there anyone expert enough to give an interesting talk here in
> Portland that would be directed at people with widely varying
> programming backgrounds all interested in robot development.  We'd
> really appreciate it!!!
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Robert Scheer
>
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