Stephane,

For a project that would host a Squeak program, the machine would range
from something like a Gumstix or Hammer running Linux to a mini-ITX or
laptop with a dual core CPU running Linux, Windows or MAC OS's.  Memory
would range from 128MB - 1GB typically.  

My project is using 1GB currently on a Core 2 Duo Mini-ITX hosting
Linux.  

Just scanned through your book "Squeak Learn Programming with Robots"
and now you need to write the next book "Squeak - Intermediate
Programming on Real Robots"!!

You DO want to get interested in robots, don't you?

Thanks for the great help everyone.

- Robert

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:01 +0100, stephane ducasse wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>