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Re: JCX and Legos to appear in Denmark next week
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 8 Sep 2004 03:27:42 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Bruce Boyes <bboyes@systronix.com> wrote:
> The very first production units of JCX (http://jcx.systronix.com/) will be
> displayed and demonstrated next week in Aarhus, Denmark, at this
> conference: http://www.jaoo.dk/ so if any of you are in the area it would
> be fun to meet.
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> We will be showing the JCX sensor and motor boards, JSimm.JStamp and JStik
> brain boards, JSimm.DIO digital I/O board, and long-range (1 km) RF
> peer-to-peer modems. We may also have a metal link robot arm using 6 R/C
> servos and CMUcam for autonomous machine vision. All these systems will be
> communicating over RF with XML data, and all will be running realtime
> native-execution Java.
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> Yes, this implies that JCX is inching closer to commercial availability (at
> a pace that feels glacial to me). The first JCX commercial systems are
> going to some select partners/developers, and to this class at the
> University of Utah: http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs4710/. We expect to
> have a handful of this first run of systems for sale sometime in October,
> available to the general Lego community. Full production should be realized
> later this fall (we're pedalling as fast as we can...)
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> I have tentative plans to appear at some Java and robotics groups across
> the country, and I'll post a note to this list when those are definite.
>
> (Thanks for letting me 'spam' this list once again on the topic of JCX
> vaporware.)
>
> Bruce Boyes
So, where's the available product? I thought it was going to be available
almost 1 year ago?
(Opinions omitted),
Rob Hendrix
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| (...) I was extremely excited when I first heard about this product a year ago last summer. I have long since lost the enthusiasm I had, and I can't say I'd be suprised if the project remains vaporware forever (at least with respect to being an (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| The very first production units of JCX ((URL) will be displayed and demonstrated next week in Aarhus, Denmark, at this conference: (URL) so if any of you are in the area it would be fun to meet. We will be showing the JCX sensor and motor boards, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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