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Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:20:18 GMT
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Jan Newmarch <jan@ise.canberra^nomorespam^.edu.au>
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For those who want to see how this kind of thing is done,
independently I wrote a Jini/MindStorms driver as part of my Jini
tutorial. It is at
http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/java/jini/tutorial/Jini.xml
Jan
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, David Kadansky wrote:
>
> Ok, I don't think this is too far off-topic.
>
> At the JavaOne keynote presentation this morning in S.F., James Gosling and
> Kay Neuenhofen of Sun Microsystems demonstrated Mindstorm tanks controlled
> from Palm V's running KJava aka MicroJava.
>
> They also said that the Mindstorms and the Palms were proxied into Jini
> devices by a Sparcstation server.
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> You can watch a webcast of the presentation at
> www.graham.com/broadcasts/sun/JavaOne-99/keynote1/keynote1.html
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> The Mindstorms segment runs from 1:30:18 thru 1:35:00 (that's 90 minutes
> from the start), so you might want to fast-forward a bit.
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> Here's an excerpt (at 1:32:40):
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> Neuenhofen: The tanks come up first and they implement a controllable
> interface and the Palms are then looking for something that implements a
> controllable interface and they then start controlling the tanks. So it's a
> spontaneous creation of a Jini federation.
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> Gosling: The tanks themselves are actually not running Java, they're being
> proxied.
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> Kay: The tanks are too small at the moment to run Java so they run their own
> proprietary Lego operating system, and ...
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> (crowd laughs)
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> They are.
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> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering,
University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616
Australia. Tel: (61) 2-62012422. Fax: (61) 2-62015041
AARNet: jan@ise.canberra.edu.au
WWW: http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au
"Microsoft gives you Windows. Linux gives you the whole house."
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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