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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