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Re: Seeking Programming Assistance
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:20:57 GMT
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It's a pitty that LEGO is used by military, i.e. by people who
are trained to kill other people...

Pavel.

Jude Tomasello wrote:

Hi, my name is Jude Tomasello.  I am a US Army civilian and am currently
taking a class in which we are involved in using the Lego Mindstorm as a
simulation for an unmanned ground vehicle.  Because of its versatility, we are
using NQC instead of the RCX standard code.  My partner and I have written a
program and debugged it through several compile attempts and support from Mr
Baum and Mr Overmars.  The vehicle will have two sensors up front and is
supposed to run a course by tracking white tape on the ground.  It is also
supposed to detect "mines" (CDROMs placed on the ground).  As I said before, we
have done some code ourselves.  Part of the course is a "make or buy" outsource
assessment, just as one would do in an actual program office.  Accordingly, I
am soliciting anyone interested out there to write a program in NQC to do the
things we need it to do.  I have a PowerPoint file that details the specific
requirements and if you are interested, please email me at
jude_tomasello@stricom.army.mil and I will send it to you.  My deepest
appreciation to anyone who participates in this exercise by writing code for us
to base a comparison.  Again, thanks tremendously for your help and I look
forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Jude

--
Pavel Petrovic, petrovic@idi.ntnu.no
Research Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
URL: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~petrovic/



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  Re: Military (was Seeking Programming Assistance)
 
(...) Its a pity that the world is such that military force is required. There's no shortage of people who will use violence to take your freedoms or life. Defending those freedoms requires a willingness to use force. Note I say "willingness"...that (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
  Re: Seeking Programming Assistance
 
However I would prefer them to use robots for mine clearing than humans! See > > supposed to detect "mines" Neil "Pavel Petrovic" <petrovic@idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:3972FA29.800201...ntnu.no... (...) we are (...) written a (...) from Mr (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
  Re: Seeking Programming Assistance
 
Pavel, I'm very glad they are using something which is fast and easily adapted. The United States military includes some of the finest people in the world. I'm might proud to support them. Way to go, folks! Regards to all vets and current U.S. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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  Seeking Programming Assistance
 
Hi, my name is Jude Tomasello. I am a US Army civilian and am currently taking a class in which we are involved in using the Lego Mindstorm as a simulation for an unmanned ground vehicle. Because of its versatility, we are using NQC instead of the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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