Squeak Experts Near Portland Oregon

> 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
>
>
>

> 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

>
>
> El 12/14/07 11:04 PM, "Robert F. Scheer" <[hidden email]> escribió:
>
> > 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
>
>
>
>

> Robert
>
> what is the memory footprint of your robots?
> Let us know how we can help.
> http://www.squeakbyexample.org/ is one way :)
>
> Stef
>
> On 15 déc. 07, at 03:04, Robert F. Scheer wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>