Squeak Experts Near Portland Oregon

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Sat Dec 15 09:34:39 UTC 2007




El 12/14/07 11:04 PM, "Robert F. Scheer" <rfscheer at speakeasy.net> escribió:

> 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

I know who did in Argentina.
They show in Smalltaks 2007.
Send private mail if you wish.

Edgar





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