* Ada and Robotics (for fun)?
@ 2004-09-29 13:09 Chris Humphries
2004-09-29 13:53 ` Frank
2004-09-29 17:00 ` Jerry Petrey
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From: Chris Humphries @ 2004-09-29 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
Just for fun, I thought it would be interesting to
do hobby like ada programming on robots. From searching
google, most I got was references to using Ada for lego
mindstorms. That seems like fun, anyone have experience in
this?
Here are some of the links for Lego Mindstorm:
1) http://www.faginfamily.net/barry/Papers/AdaLetters.htm
2) http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html
3) http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/Ada_Mindstorms_manual.htm
Now if only I could program a Robosapien in Ada to
do stuff, that would be neat :)
Robosapien:
1) http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6ba5/
Robosapien with a camera and light:
1) http://home.comcast.net/~jsamans/robo/robocam.htm
Any other available fun ada programming with robotics?
Looking for fun in programming that isn't actually programming
something useful, like corewars (http://corewars.sourceforge.net/).
Hope this wasn't off-base with this, but all programmers
like to play in programming that isn't "work"? Plus, robots are
cool.
Thanks,
Chris
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* Re: Ada and Robotics (for fun)?
2004-09-29 13:09 Ada and Robotics (for fun)? Chris Humphries
@ 2004-09-29 13:53 ` Frank
2004-09-29 17:00 ` Jerry Petrey
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From: Frank @ 2004-09-29 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi!
Look at Vellemanns K8000 interface card, it gives many possibilites... you
have to assemble it yourself.
It dont think there are any Ada interface to it - you control it through
parallell port on PC.
Start looking from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/k8000/links
(I have a very slow going hobby project to create a Ada interface to
Vellemanns K8000 kit)
Frank
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* Re: Ada and Robotics (for fun)?
2004-09-29 13:09 Ada and Robotics (for fun)? Chris Humphries
2004-09-29 13:53 ` Frank
@ 2004-09-29 17:00 ` Jerry Petrey
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From: Jerry Petrey @ 2004-09-29 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Chris Humphries wrote (with deletions):
> Hello,
>
> Just for fun, I thought it would be interesting to
> do hobby like ada programming on robots. From searching
> google, most I got was references to using Ada for lego
> mindstorms. That seems like fun, anyone have experience in
> this?
>
> Here are some of the links for Lego Mindstorm:
> 1) http://www.faginfamily.net/barry/Papers/AdaLetters.htm
> 2) http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagide.html
> 3) http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/Ada_Mindstorms_manual.htm
>
> Hope this wasn't off-base with this, but all programmers
> like to play in programming that isn't "work"? Plus, robots are
> cool.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
Mr. Fagan has done a nice job with Ada Mindstorms. I hope it continues to
evolve.
You can get the AdaGide add-on for Ada Mindstorms at:
ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/fagin/adamindstorms-install.exe
Jerry
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