Squeak communicating with Linux robots

Elod Kironsky kironsky at grisoft.cz
Tue Feb 28 15:28:08 UTC 2006


Jason Rogers wrote:

>I just read an article in Linux Magazine about Linux robots
>(http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65 and
>http://www.linuxrobots.org).  The robot is connected to a network via
>an onboard WLAN card.  You SSH into the computer on the robot, execute
>some C code (which hooks into the robot's libraries called
>'librobot'), and botta-boom-botta-bing -- the robot moves.
>
>I thought it would be neat to write a layer that would translate E-Toy
>scripts into C in order to enable kids to control a robot from Squeak.
> However, I have no clue how to "export" E-Toys scripts.  Maybe that
>is the wrong tack altogether.  Perhaps all I need is a plugin or FFI
>that would interface with the librobot C code.  Am I on the right
>path, or is it more complicated than that?
>
>--
>Jason Rogers
>
>"Where there is no vision, the people perish..."
>    Proverbs 29:18
>
>
>  
>
I think the player/stage project is much more suitable for this 
implementation. There were already
some implementation for robot control via DEVS models at our university.

Elod



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