On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Nir Soffer wrote: > On 22 Oct, 2005, at 23:05, Omer Zak wrote: > > > How about something having to do with robots?With robots you still > > can > > do pretty cool things after a short course. > > Here is an interesting example of a book called "Squeak: Learn > Programming with Robots" <http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/>. The book > use of the rich multimedia environment of Squeak to create robots > simulations.
this is exactly like logo - instead of turtle graphics, you get bot graphics. i think omer was talking about real, mechanical robots. i asked a friend of mine, and he sais there are robots that were meant for similar purposes. the cheaper ones would cost several 10s of dollors per robot - and they are an arm-robot (i.e. you can program them to move things, e.g. play towers of hanoi). in the cheap robots, you have to do the programming on a low level (e.g. you can't just say "move from X1,Y1,Z1 to X2,Y2,Z2) - you probably need to take into account rotor start/speedup and stop/slowdown times, etc. he sais the lego robots normaly cost more. i'm not sure how up-to-date his information is. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
