dolphin bot-kit?

Previous Topic Next Topic
 
classic Classic list List threaded Threaded
2 messages Options
Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

dolphin bot-kit?

Alan Wostenberg-4
I read at http://www.whysmalltalk.com/production/index.htm about
        " A robot control system for use with the LEGO® MindStormsTM or
CybermasterTM and the powerful, but easy to use, Dolphin Smalltalk
programming environment.  Bot-Kit is a robot control system that allows
you to program and control robots built from LEGO Technic elements using
your PC.  Bot-Kit is available free of charge with full installation and
programming instructions on the web site. "

But the link --  http://www.object-arts.com/Bower/Bot-Kit/ -- is broken
Is there a new link to the bot-kit?


Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

Re: dolphin bot-kit?

Andy Bower-3
Alan,

> I read at http://www.whysmalltalk.com/production/index.htm about
> " A robot control system for use with the LEGO® MindStormsTM or
> CybermasterTM and the powerful, but easy to use, Dolphin Smalltalk
> programming environment.  Bot-Kit is a robot control system that
> allows you to program and control robots built from LEGO Technic
> elements using your PC.  Bot-Kit is available free of charge with
> full installation and programming instructions on the web site. "
>
> But the link --  http://www.object-arts.com/Bower/Bot-Kit/ -- is
> broken Is there a new link to the bot-kit?

We no longer distribute Bot-Kit since we were informed that it doesn't
work with the later version of MindStorms (2.0). We started to receive
too many support e-mails to make it worthwhile for a free package and
without the later versions of the set we were not in a position to
update it. Ideally, that link on whysmalltalk.com should be removed.

However, if you have RCS 1.5 (or earlier) or you'd like to try and get
the stuff working in RCS 2.0 then there is an archive link to the
installer here:

http://www.object-arts.com/downloads/4.0/ThirdParty/Bot-Kit.msi

This installs a Dolphin 4 package which should load okay into D5. There
has been some work done getting Bot-Kit into Squeak but I'm not sure
whether that port works in RCS 2.0 or not. A Google search for
Squeak+Mindstorms should reveal more.

Best regards

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com