I think that while the Lego system has ties to the toy industry which may be
viewed as less than industrial strength by some the Mindstorm platform
seems to be a pretty good, low cost platform to prototype and demonstrate
new ideas, especially in wireless, location aware devices, robotics and
educational areas.
AND
Lego could be a substantial supporter/sponsor of the Embedlet standard if it
was proven to be easy enough to deploy at the entry level.
Come to think of it I wouldn't mind sitting at my desktop using a browser to
monitor a lego robot as it looks for the cat...
This brings up another point in that early visibility and buyin by some of
the big players (Dallas, AJile, Systronix, Intel, Lego) in this field should
be one of the goals of this project if we expect it to gain any foothold.
Anyone want to put on their marketing hat?
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: emb...@li...
[mailto:emb...@li...]On Behalf Of
Andrzej Jan Taramina
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:10 PM
To: emb...@li...
Subject: [Embedlets-developer] Lego as a target...
Ted and Bruce chat:
> >I suppose that if the graphical wiring aspect of Embedlets were done
right
> >(which is an extremely high priority item on my personal goals list) then
> >it is
> >conceivable that Embedlets might prove to be a good candidate for the
next
> >generation of Lego Mindstorms programming technology.
>
> Yes yes yes!
Since our target was business usage, I am a bit hesitant about tackling Lego
Mindstorms activities with the Embedlets project. It might damage our
credibility for "real world" applications, which we first set out to
address.
I don't see much need for Lego Mindstorms to integrate with a back end J2EE
or .NET server...which was one of the fundamental goals of Outpost.
That being said, there is no technical reason that someone couldn't use
Embedlets to control Lego Mindstorms, and create a library of useful,
reusable
Lego Mindstorm embedlets.
I just think our initial emphasis should be towards the commercial sector
(process control, shop floor automation, machine monitoring/control for the
manufacturing, distribution and engineering industries), as we had initially
planned.
Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com
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