Hi Markus, > I am working at the technical university Braunschweig and we are just > developping programs for using Lego mindstorms NXT roboters for teaching. > We want to program them in Java and have already developped an API > similiar > to icommand, but at a higher level.
Do you want to collaborate on this? If so, send me your Sourceforge id and I'll sign you up. One of the plans we had for iCommand (and later leJOS) was for sensor wrappers to make it easier to access the various sensors and I see you already have some of those. > But in the long term we want to get rid > of the "online" bluetooth connection and generate code that directly runs > on > the NXT. Now my question is: Are there plans to bring the Java VM to the > NXT > on your side? If not we will try to get something working, most probably a > Java compiler that generates ARM code. Your approach sounds interesting with the Java compiler generating ARM code. This would replace the Lego firmware, correct? Please let us know more about your plans. We are planning to port the leJOS JVM to ARM7, since the leJOS code is very portable. I think this would give us the best options for customizing the NXT as much as possible, as opposed to being limited by converting Java to NXT-G code and uploading to the standard Lego firmware. We want to develop under GCC using an ARM7 target. Juergen mentioned there might be questions about the reliability of the ARM7 compiling with GCC, though. I set up a development environment in Linux using Eclipse and GCC, but realized I didn't want to use my slow Linux box. I'd rather use my more powerful XP system, and it looks like it can do everything within Eclipse, including Subversion and Ant-builds (thanks to Peter Joosten). Just getting this set up at the moment. - Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Lejos-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lejos-discussion
