Re: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Atommann]

2015-10-21 2:33 GMT+08:00 Matthias Trute :
> Atommann,
>
> Awesome. I always thought that opensource means I can
> study the source code. The Chinese commands do really work
> via Bluetooth? Way cool.
>
> More of that, I like it :=) :=)

Thank you all.
Yes, we transfer the Chinese words to the robot via Bluetooth and when
we type Chinese word in python shell, the robot executes the word!

> PS: hmm. There are languages that use a right-to-left direction
> for ... symbols (IIRC Arab). A nice challenge, now ;)

I really don't know, I'll ask our Forth coder :)

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Re: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Erich Wälde]

Atommann,

Congratulations!

I'm very impressed with what you and your team mates came up,
especially the Forth code with Chinese commands. Very nice
project! You should be proud!


Cheers,
Erich


Atommann writes:

> Hi,
>
> About two weeks ago I met a pretty lady in our office, she told me
> there is a Hackathon hold by their company and Shenzhen Graduate
> School of HIT [link 2].
>
> At the first moment I have no idea to build what.
>
> Me: "What's the topic?"
> The pretty lady: "Robots"
> Me: "Good topic! I'll send an email to our mailing list to ask if
> someone else want to join."
>
> When I wrote that email I suddenly understood that I can build a robot
> using amforth with a bluetooth module, it can accept simple commands
> from computer side and draw graphics on a white board on the floor.
>


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Re: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Matthias Trute]

Atommann,

Awesome. I always thought that opensource means I can
study the source code. The Chinese commands do really work
via Bluetooth? Way cool.

More of that, I like it :=) :=)

Matthias
PS: hmm. There are languages that use a right-to-left direction
for ... symbols (IIRC Arab). A nice challenge, now ;)


Am Dienstag, den 20.10.2015, 11:15 +0800 schrieb Atommann:
> Hi,
> 
> About two weeks ago I met a pretty lady in our office, she told me
> there is a Hackathon hold by their company and Shenzhen Graduate
> School of HIT [link 2].
> 
> At the first moment I have no idea to build what.
> 
> Me: "What's the topic?"
> The pretty lady: "Robots"
> Me: "Good topic! I'll send an email to our mailing list to ask if
> someone else want to join."
> 
> When I wrote that email I suddenly understood that I can build a robot
> using amforth with a bluetooth module, it can accept simple commands
> from computer side and draw graphics on a white board on the floor.
> 
> So the idea is clear. I decide to go. But I just started to learn
> forth and I can just write some simple code in amforth. Fortunately we
> just have a coder in our hackspace and he just graduated from applied
> math department and implemented forth dialect with x86 assembler. But
> he has no MCU knowledge.
> 
> But it's OK. I can finished the low level code (such as the code for
> servo motor which used to implement words of pen-up and pen-down) and
> he can finish the high level functions.
> 
> A funny story during the hackathon:
> In a deep night we sat on a terrace and  were drinking coffee and
> discussing which kind of graphics the robot should draw for the final
> demonstration.
> 
> xyh (the forth coder): "I want to draw there Chinese characters" (The
> Chinese name of the university)
> Atommann: "You are crazy! Why not just draw HIT, all straight lines, easier."
> 
> I was tired and went to sleep and didn't put xyh's idea (draw Chinese) in 
> mind.
> 
> The next morning when I woke up I went to see xyh's job. I saw there
> is a square on the white board paper on the floor. "Wow, surprise!" I
> said. Suddenly I found that he was coding in Chinese in Forth. All the
> words are defined in Chinese [link 6]. OMG. And I never expected this
> before :)
> 
> Before the final demonstration, we found that the robot can not draw
> the first Chinese character nicely. xyh change the code time by time.
> 
> Me: "xyh, I think it's good enough"
> xyh: "No, I can make it better, the value of this character is 10k RMB!"
> 
> And the good thing of Amforth is that we can upload the new words to
> the robot by Bluetooth! We don't need to plug cable, unplug cable and
> no need of edit, compile, download cycle which wastes time which is
> valuable for a hackathon.
> 
> The original idea of this project is used to teach kids programming,
> English, and how to control robots.
> 
> At the computer side, I want to build a mini computer based on
> Raspberry Pi, or the 9 dollar C.H.I.P. computer [link 5], battery
> powered. So kids can have their own computer and a robot they can play
> with.
> 
> The computer side, kids can also use Lisp language [link 4] to control
> the robot.
> 
> Anyway, we finished the robot and got the No. 1 prize (10K RMB) [link 3].
> 
> Amforth is awesome! Thanks.
> We'll continue.
> 
> links
> 
> [1] We used the following motor driver. Very handy!
> https://github.com/wmercer/amforth/blob/609c6594076422e6592f50811ef73f054b02a256/community/Arduino-Shields/ada-shield.frt
> 
> [2] 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Graduate_School_of_Harbin_Institute_of_Technology
> 
> [3] some photos
> http://www.leiphone.com/news/201510/Hk7mizNbynrIInam.html
> Team members: I am the one in orange, xyh is in black with long hair,
> bnw is in the 1st photo in this article.
> 
> [4] Scheme code for lambda-tortoises (the name of this robot)
> https://github.com/szdiy/lambda-tortoise
> 
> [5] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/description
> 
> [6] The code which draws Chinese for the final demonstration
> https://github.com/xieyuheng/ada-shield/blob/master/show.org
> 

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[Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Atommann]

Hi,

About two weeks ago I met a pretty lady in our office, she told me
there is a Hackathon hold by their company and Shenzhen Graduate
School of HIT [link 2].

At the first moment I have no idea to build what.

Me: "What's the topic?"
The pretty lady: "Robots"
Me: "Good topic! I'll send an email to our mailing list to ask if
someone else want to join."

When I wrote that email I suddenly understood that I can build a robot
using amforth with a bluetooth module, it can accept simple commands
from computer side and draw graphics on a white board on the floor.

So the idea is clear. I decide to go. But I just started to learn
forth and I can just write some simple code in amforth. Fortunately we
just have a coder in our hackspace and he just graduated from applied
math department and implemented forth dialect with x86 assembler. But
he has no MCU knowledge.

But it's OK. I can finished the low level code (such as the code for
servo motor which used to implement words of pen-up and pen-down) and
he can finish the high level functions.

A funny story during the hackathon:
In a deep night we sat on a terrace and  were drinking coffee and
discussing which kind of graphics the robot should draw for the final
demonstration.

xyh (the forth coder): "I want to draw there Chinese characters" (The
Chinese name of the university)
Atommann: "You are crazy! Why not just draw HIT, all straight lines, easier."

I was tired and went to sleep and didn't put xyh's idea (draw Chinese) in mind.

The next morning when I woke up I went to see xyh's job. I saw there
is a square on the white board paper on the floor. "Wow, surprise!" I
said. Suddenly I found that he was coding in Chinese in Forth. All the
words are defined in Chinese [link 6]. OMG. And I never expected this
before :)

Before the final demonstration, we found that the robot can not draw
the first Chinese character nicely. xyh change the code time by time.

Me: "xyh, I think it's good enough"
xyh: "No, I can make it better, the value of this character is 10k RMB!"

And the good thing of Amforth is that we can upload the new words to
the robot by Bluetooth! We don't need to plug cable, unplug cable and
no need of edit, compile, download cycle which wastes time which is
valuable for a hackathon.

The original idea of this project is used to teach kids programming,
English, and how to control robots.

At the computer side, I want to build a mini computer based on
Raspberry Pi, or the 9 dollar C.H.I.P. computer [link 5], battery
powered. So kids can have their own computer and a robot they can play
with.

The computer side, kids can also use Lisp language [link 4] to control
the robot.

Anyway, we finished the robot and got the No. 1 prize (10K RMB) [link 3].

Amforth is awesome! Thanks.
We'll continue.

links

[1] We used the following motor driver. Very handy!
https://github.com/wmercer/amforth/blob/609c6594076422e6592f50811ef73f054b02a256/community/Arduino-Shields/ada-shield.frt

[2] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Graduate_School_of_Harbin_Institute_of_Technology

[3] some photos
http://www.leiphone.com/news/201510/Hk7mizNbynrIInam.html
Team members: I am the one in orange, xyh is in black with long hair,
bnw is in the 1st photo in this article.

[4] Scheme code for lambda-tortoises (the name of this robot)
https://github.com/szdiy/lambda-tortoise

[5] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/description

[6] The code which draws Chinese for the final demonstration
https://github.com/xieyuheng/ada-shield/blob/master/show.org

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Re: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Dennis Ruffer]

Hope you don't mind me forwarding to SVFIG.

Congrats!

DaR


From: Atommann
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 8:16 PM
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Subject: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth


Hi,

About two weeks ago I met a pretty lady in our office, she told me
there is a Hackathon hold by their company and Shenzhen Graduate
School of HIT [link 2].

At the first moment I have no idea to build what.

Me: "What's the topic?"
The pretty lady: "Robots"
Me: "Good topic! I'll send an email to our mailing list to ask if
someone else want to join."

When I wrote that email I suddenly understood that I can build a robot
using amforth with a bluetooth module, it can accept simple commands
from computer side and draw graphics on a white board on the floor.

So the idea is clear. I decide to go. But I just started to learn
forth and I can just write some simple code in amforth. Fortunately we
just have a coder in our hackspace and he just graduated from applied
math department and implemented forth dialect with x86 assembler. But
he has no MCU knowledge.

But it's OK. I can finished the low level code (such as the code for
servo motor which used to implement words of pen-up and pen-down) and
he can finish the high level functions.

A funny story during the hackathon:
In a deep night we sat on a terrace and  were drinking coffee and
discussing which kind of graphics the robot should draw for the final
demonstration.

xyh (the forth coder): "I want to draw there Chinese characters" (The
Chinese name of the university)
Atommann: "You are crazy! Why not just draw HIT, all straight lines, easier."

I was tired and went to sleep and didn't put xyh's idea (draw Chinese) in mind.

The next morning when I woke up I went to see xyh's job. I saw there
is a square on the white board paper on the floor. "Wow, surprise!" I
said. Suddenly I found that he was coding in Chinese in Forth. All the
words are defined in Chinese [link 6]. OMG. And I never expected this
before :)

Before the final demonstration, we found that the robot can not draw
the first Chinese character nicely. xyh change the code time by time.

Me: "xyh, I think it's good enough"
xyh: "No, I can make it better, the value of this character is 10k RMB!"

And the good thing of Amforth is that we can upload the new words to
the robot by Bluetooth! We don't need to plug cable, unplug cable and
no need of edit, compile, download cycle which wastes time which is
valuable for a hackathon.

The original idea of this project is used to teach kids programming,
English, and how to control robots.

At the computer side, I want to build a mini computer based on
Raspberry Pi, or the 9 dollar C.H.I.P. computer [link 5], battery
powered. So kids can have their own computer and a robot they can play
with.

The computer side, kids can also use Lisp language [link 4] to control
the robot.

Anyway, we finished the robot and got the No. 1 prize (10K RMB) [link 3].

Amforth is awesome! Thanks.
We'll continue.

links

[1] We used the following motor driver. Very handy!
https://github.com/wmercer/amforth/blob/609c6594076422e6592f50811ef73f054b02a256/community/Arduino-Shields/ada-shield.frt

[2] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Graduate_School_of_Harbin_Institute_of_Technology

[3] some photos
http://www.leiphone.com/news/201510/Hk7mizNbynrIInam.html
Team members: I am the one in orange, xyh is in black with long hair,
bnw is in the 1st photo in this article.

[4] Scheme code for lambda-tortoises (the name of this robot)
https://github.com/szdiy/lambda-tortoise

[5] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/description

[6] The code which draws Chinese for the final demonstration
https://github.com/xieyuheng/ada-shield/blob/master/show.org

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Re: [Amforth] We build a robot using Amforth

[Atommann]

2015-10-20 11:24 GMT+08:00 Dennis Ruffer :
> Hope you don't mind me forwarding to SVFIG.

Thanks. All our work is based on other people's work.

> Congrats!

Thank you.

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