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Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne
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Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:20:18 GMT
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Jan Newmarch <jan@ise/ihatespam/.canberra.edu.au>
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For those who want to see how this kind of thing is done,
independently I wrote a Jini/MindStorms driver as part of my Jini
tutorial. It is at
http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/java/jini/tutorial/Jini.xml

Jan
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, David Kadansky wrote:


Ok, I don't think this is too far off-topic.

At the JavaOne keynote presentation this morning in S.F., James Gosling and
Kay Neuenhofen of Sun Microsystems demonstrated Mindstorm tanks controlled
from Palm V's running KJava aka MicroJava.

They also said that the Mindstorms and the Palms were proxied into Jini
devices by a Sparcstation server.

You can watch a webcast of the presentation at
www.graham.com/broadcasts/sun/JavaOne-99/keynote1/keynote1.html

The Mindstorms segment runs from 1:30:18 thru 1:35:00 (that's 90 minutes
from the start), so you might want to fast-forward a bit.

---------------------------------------------

Here's an excerpt (at 1:32:40):

Neuenhofen: The tanks come up first and they implement a controllable
interface and the Palms are then looking for something that implements a
controllable interface and they then start controlling the tanks. So it's a
spontaneous creation of a Jini federation.

Gosling: The tanks themselves are actually not running Java, they're being
proxied.

Kay: The tanks are too small at the moment to run Java so they run their own
proprietary Lego operating system, and ...

  (crowd laughs)

They are.

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  Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering,
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Ok, I don't think this is too far off-topic. At the JavaOne keynote presentation this morning in S.F., James Gosling and Kay Neuenhofen of Sun Microsystems demonstrated Mindstorm tanks controlled from Palm V's running KJava aka MicroJava. They also (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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