Me, too. I'm hoping Santa is going to bring me a Mindstorms kit for
Christmas. I have some time off right after the holiday and I'd love to
play with it and then with Squeak and it and then....

Jerome Garcia wrote:
> 
>      Add me to the list of those interested. I am planning on buying a Lego
>      Mindstorms robotics kit to play with and to study Bot-Kit on Dolphin
>      then see what I could do with that knowledge in Squeak. However, I am
>      sure that I will not be able to even think much about it before
>      sometime in January and I don't have a clue about the amount of effort
>      required.
> 
>      Jerome
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Squeak and Lego Mindstorms
> Author:  Ivan Brusic <ivan at cc.gatech.edu> at INTERNET
> Date:    12/3/98 8:55 PM
> 
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Stefano Franchi wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone thinking about a Squeak programming environment for the recently
> > released Lego Mindstorms robotics kits?
> > I am toying with the idea of offering a class that would use the kits, but
> > the SW environment provided by Lego is too limited, and the alternative
> > environments that's been circulating is either too technical for my
> > intended audience (Stanford's non-cs non-ee undergrads) or it's Windows
> > only. Squeak would be the ideal environment, both because of its openness
> > and multi-platform portability and because it would allow the instructors
> > to tailor the environment differently according to the different projects
> > at hand. (My planned class is an introduction to AI and I would very much
> > like to provide different programming approaches to allow the students to
> > try out different theoretical approaches--it's much better to have
> > something like a subsumption architecture available if you want to try to a
> > pure feedback-based cybernetic approach to AI)
> > I might try to do something myself, but I have not touched Smalltalk in a
> > long, long time, and I am afraid I'll reinvent the wheel. Is anyone else
> > interested is this stuff?
> 
> Funny you should mention this.  Lex Spoon and I were talking yesterday
> about how great will it be to have a programming enviroment for Mindstorms
> in Squeak.  There already is a Dolphin Smalltalk enviroment for Lego
> Mindstorms at:
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~objarts/Bower/Bot-Kit/Bot-KitTitle.htm
> 
> 
> There also has been some talk on comp.lang.smalltalk about a group trying
> to implement an environment in VisualAge Smalltalk.
> 
> While the interest is there, I am afraid I just won't have the time. (or a
> Lego Mindstorms).  But I agree, it is definetly an interesting project and
> the two go perfectly together.
> 
> Ivan
> 
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> 
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