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From: Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net>
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Subject: Ada and Robotics (for fun)?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:09:32 -0400
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Date: 2004-09-29T09:09:32-04:00
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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