Thanks Edgar, 

It appears there are many Squeakers in and around Portland.  How did I
get so lucky?  Thanks for your offer of help.

- Robert

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 06:34 -0300, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
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> El 12/14/07 11:04 PM, "Robert F. Scheer" <rfscheer at speakeasy.net> escribió:
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> > 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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