From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,25cb524250338463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.34!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <415AEA1A.AD8EC4E3@raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Robotics (for fun)? References: <10lld0bj4s0cd47@news.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:10 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.201.186 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1096477211 147.24.201.186 (Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:00:11 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:00:11 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4394 Date: 2004-09-29T10:00:10-07:00 List-Id: 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey - Senior Principal Systems Engineer -- Navigation (GPS/INS), Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please perform appendectomy on email address before replying ---------------------------------------------------------------------