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Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-dev] Quitting the community

by Maarten Mostert

No great things are achieved without great characters, Stephan has been doing a great long term effort of maintaining research budgets for Smalltalk and pushing a viable open source solution for it while the situation was pretty difficult. Like many of us he has some rough edges to and we shouldn’t forget that each of us is driven by ambition, fear and frustration. I really respect Stephan, but I also sympathise with you as I did with Janko some month’s ago. Nobody cares about any details, what we do care about however is that you would be lost for Smalltalk after such a great job !!!! There is so much more to Smalltalk then just Pharo and some of these move considerably …. Hope you reconsider at least that part of your decision. Take care, @+Maarten, On 18 Aug 2014, at 11:36, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Thanks for letting us know. > > I am sorry you feel this way, but I believe your presentation of the situation is both unfair and unfortunate. You are obviously referring to issues that are of personal nature, and as outsiders we are left with only an ugly feeling without being able to either understand or fix anything. > > I was actually having fun until your email, and as far as I can tell, others were having fun as well. I am not sure what the intention of your email was, but at least for me, your mail did manage to spoil the fun for a second. > > I appreciate the work you put in Pharo, I respect your decision, but I do not sympathize with your behavior. > > Good luck, > Doru > > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am sending this email to explain why I am quiting the Pharo community, > as well as the Smalltalk community. > > I can not bear Stephane Ducasse's behavior anymore whether at a public > level or a private level. > > It seems that his ego is preventing him from being able to have a discussion > without overreacting, being agressive, or insulting. > > I can not approve how Stephane is constantly talking behind my back to unleash > his irrationnal wrath and to provide his very own version of the facts. > > I can not see how this can lead to a peaceful and respectful community > where we can all have fun building a future. > > Therefore I will not be part of this project anymore, since the way Stephane > is acting is taking away all the fun I can have interacting with all of you. > > It was a hard decision to take, but I can not be part of a community led > by someone whose behaviour is going against all my principles. > > I wish to all of you to have fun, and keep me in touch > if you want to have a beer someday ;) > > Ben > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org

Aug. 19, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-dev] Quitting the community

by Tudor Girba

Hi Ben, Thanks for letting us know. I am sorry you feel this way, but I believe your presentation of the situation is both unfair and unfortunate. You are obviously referring to issues that are of personal nature, and as outsiders we are left with only an ugly feeling without being able to either understand or fix anything. I was actually having fun until your email, and as far as I can tell, others were having fun as well. I am not sure what the intention of your email was, but at least for me, your mail did manage to spoil the fun for a second. I appreciate the work you put in Pharo, I respect your decision, but I do not sympathize with your behavior. Good luck, Doru On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Benjamin < benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I am sending this email to explain why I am quiting the Pharo community, > as well as the Smalltalk community. > > I can not bear Stephane Ducasse's behavior anymore whether at a public > level or a private level. > > It seems that his ego is preventing him from being able to have a > discussion > without overreacting, being agressive, or insulting. > > I can not approve how Stephane is constantly talking behind my back to > unleash > his irrationnal wrath and to provide his very own version of the facts. > > I can not see how this can lead to a peaceful and respectful community > where we can all have fun building a future. > > Therefore I will not be part of this project anymore, since the way > Stephane > is acting is taking away all the fun I can have interacting with all of > you. > > It was a hard decision to take, but I can not be part of a community led > by someone whose behaviour is going against all my principles. > > I wish to all of you to have fun, and keep me in touch > if you want to have a beer someday ;) > > Ben > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

Aug. 18, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Luc Fabresse

2014-08-15 19:16 GMT+02:00 Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com>: > Indeed, this direction is really exciting. > > When I was at NDC, there were a couple of guys there that wanted to > control their robot and they saw Pharo as a perfect match. With a more > elaborate kit, we could have a door opener. > yes sure, this is why we use Pharo for our robots since years but using a dynamic language is still a difficult message to pass to the core robotics community ;-) Luc > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > >> >> Thanks to both :-) >> >> Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But >> watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, >> specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and >> they are getting harder to find these days :-( >> >> On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo < >> santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) >> > >> > >> > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: >> > >> > >> > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of >> course :-) >> > >> > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ >> > >> > >> > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD >> student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, >> or LRP for short. >> > > >> > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the >> behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine >> language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a >> specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP >> programming to get an idea of what it is like: >> http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA >> > > >> > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as >> it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. >> You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond >> words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: >> http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live >> programming nested state machines as well. >> > > >> > > More information on LRP is available on its website: >> http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. >> > > >> > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization >> of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and >> ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that >> Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to >> look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. >> > > >> > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk >> at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he >> will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly >> without a robot). >> > > >> > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! >> > > >> > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- >> > > >> > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry >> > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of >> Chile >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Moose-dev mailing list >> > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch >> > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- >> > >> > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry >> > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- >> >> Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry >> PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list >> Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org >> http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org >> > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > >

Aug. 16, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Johan Fabry

That sounds cool, I am interested in having LRP working with more robot middlewares / APIs. Can you pass me their details? (privately) On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Indeed, this direction is really exciting. > > When I was at NDC, there were a couple of guys there that wanted to control their robot and they saw Pharo as a perfect match. With a more elaborate kit, we could have a door opener. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > Thanks to both :-) > > Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and they are getting harder to find these days :-( > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) > > > > > > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: > > > > > > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of course :-) > > > > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ > > > > > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. > > > > > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > > > > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. > > > > > > More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > > > > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > > > > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). > > > > > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Moose-dev mailing list > > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > > > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

Aug. 15, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Tudor Girba

Indeed, this direction is really exciting. When I was at NDC, there were a couple of guys there that wanted to control their robot and they saw Pharo as a perfect match. With a more elaborate kit, we could have a door opener. Cheers, Doru On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > Thanks to both :-) > > Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But > watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, > specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and > they are getting harder to find these days :-( > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo < > santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) > > > > > > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: > > > > > > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of > course :-) > > > > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ > > > > > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD > student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, > or LRP for short. > > > > > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the > behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine > language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a > specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP > programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > > > > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as > it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. > You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond > words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: > http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live > programming nested state machines as well. > > > > > > More information on LRP is available on its website: > http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > > > > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization > of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and > ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that > Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to > look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > > > > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at > the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will > also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a > robot). > > > > > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of > Chile > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Moose-dev mailing list > > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > > > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

Aug. 15, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Pharo-users] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Johan Fabry

Thanks to both :-) Daniel: Contributions from you will be certainly very welcome :-) But watch out, to be able to remote control the EV3 you also need a WiFi key, specifically the Netgear N150 (WNA1100 chipset). Only that one works, and they are getting harder to find these days :-( On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Lemuus <lemuus(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome!!! now I really need to get a Lego Mindstorms EV3 :) > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Santiago Bragagnolo <santiagobragagnolo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Great Johan! Congrats for both of you :) > > > 2014-08-14 22:37 GMT+02:00 Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl>: > > > Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of course :-) > > http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ > > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. > > > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. > > > > More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). > > > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moose-dev mailing list > > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > > > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

Aug. 15, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] Award.... new process :)

by Stéphane Ducasse

super! We want more competitors. Stef On 15 Aug 2014, at 13:37, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is our submission for the ESUG Innovation Awards: > > Title: GT Inspector > Submitter: Andrei Chis, Tudor Girba, Alex Syrel > Smalltalk Dialect: Pharo > Affiliation: University of Bern, tudorgirba.com > Country: Switzerland > Website: http://gt.moosetechnology.org > Trailer: http://vimeo.com/103463364 > Keywords: Pharo, IDE, Moose, Visualization > Licence: MIT > > Cheers, > The Glamorous Team > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hi smalltalkers > > for the awards it seems that the registration server has still a problem. > I suggest that you prepare your video and that you send a title and a little description of your project > as a reply to this mail. We will manage it differently but we will do this great competition. > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow"

Aug. 15, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] Award.... new process :)

by Tudor Girba

Hi, Here is our submission for the ESUG Innovation Awards: Title: GT Inspector Submitter: Andrei Chis, Tudor Girba, Alex Syrel Smalltalk Dialect: Pharo Affiliation: University of Bern, tudorgirba.com Country: Switzerland Website: http://gt.moosetechnology.org Trailer: http://vimeo.com/103463364 Keywords: Pharo, IDE, Moose, Visualization Licence: MIT Cheers, The Glamorous Team On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr > wrote: > Hi smalltalkers > > for the awards it seems that the registration server has still a problem. > I suggest that you prepare your video and that you send a title and a > little description of your project > as a reply to this mail. We will manage it differently but we will do this > great competition. > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > Esug-list(a)lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"

Aug. 15, 2014

Re: [Esug-list] [Moose-dev] [ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Johan Fabry

Aargh, copy-paste error. The Lego robot example is on Instagram of course :-) http://instagram.com/p/pEhm0Oj837/ On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi all, > > it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. > > LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA > > Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. > > More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. > > LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. > > Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). > > All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

Aug. 14, 2014

[ANN] Live Robot Programming

by Johan Fabry

Hi all, it’s with great joy that I can announce the project that my PhD student Miguel and I have been working on recently: Live Robot Programming, or LRP for short. LRP is a live programming language designed for the creation of the behavior layer of robots. It is fundamentally a nested state machine language built with robotics applications in mind, but it is not bound to a specific robot middleware, API or OS. Have a look at one minute of LRP programming to get an idea of what it is like: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Live programming is fun, and live robot programming even more so, as it brings all the advantages of live programming to programming a robot. You get direct manipulation of a running robot, and that’s just cool beyond words. As an example of LRP on a robot, this guy was programmed in LRP: http://youtu.be/4Ma8ZapBUqA Note that you can use LRP ‘just’ for live programming nested state machines as well. More information on LRP is available on its website: http://pleiad.cl/LRP where you can also find download instructions. LRP is implemented in Pharo, and uses Roassal2 for the visualization of its state machines. We currently can steer the Lego Mindstorms EV3 and ROS robots, thanks to a small layer on top of the cool Pharo support that Jannik, Luc, Santiago and Noury are implementing at Douai. I am going to look into support for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0esug in a few weeks. Miguel will be at ESUG next week (I cannot make it), and has a talk at the IWST workshop about LRP, in the morning session. I am sure that he will also be happy to give demos of LRP if you ask him to (but sadly without a robot). All feedback is welcome, and … have fun! ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

Aug. 14, 2014