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swarming robots born from StarLogo
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:41:20 GMT
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StarLogo "Developed ...at MIT ...with support from ...the LEGO Group" might
give us a clue about the future of LEGO robotics controllers and programming
even though it does not appear to currently work with any LEGO product. The
full quote comes from the About StarLogo box under the Help menu in StarLogo
2.0. Free download at http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/ includes the
StarLogo 2.0 program and the same documentation at the website.
In the StarLogo documentation you may click Projects then Firefly, Termites,
Circle, Collisions, and Traffic. Could you do those projects with several
RCX's, other Lego programmable controllers, or Crickets?
Can you imagine a FIRST Lego League challenge in which each team builds and
programs 10 robots identically then runs the team's robots at the same time
to clear a mine field?
Should LEGO develop new sets to build swarms of robots, download the same
program, run at the same time, and behave like the "turtles" in StarLogo?
Should new LEGO programming interfaces borrow features from StarLogo that
let you create buttons, sliders, and controls like the virtual instruments
in LabVIEW?
To borrow an old, familiar phrase, "Just imagine."
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