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January 20, 2005

Things to do

Some possible things we might do next:


  1. Fun: Grab one of the First LEGO League tables, and try taking on some of the challenges ourselves. Gives us more time to get used to occam, and perhaps (*cough*) better at building.

  2. Fun/Important/Harder: We have a number of PDAs and some platforms for running little robots with PDAs as controllers. We haven't built these or got them running. We could take a few weeks and beat on these. I think, if we worked as a group, it wouldn't take long. The side effect of this is that we'd end up with new platforms, and we could then go back to #1 (if we wanted), or continue on with them. If all were to go well, they'd be programmable in C, Java, Python, and a host of other languages.

  3. Different: We could spend some time exploring StarLogo in a systematic way.

  4. Different: We could spend some time exploring Greenfoot, which doesn't work so well on my Mac. This is like StarLogo, but in Java, and very beta at the moment.

  5. Different: Play with XML-RPC, a cross-language remote procedure call protocol. Probably in Java

I might brainstorm some more ideas before tomorrow; we'll see.

Posted by mjadud at January 20, 2005 01:52 AM

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