Re: [Nxtcommand-developers] Multiple NXT Bricks

[Brian B. <bba...@mt...>]

Hi Roly,

We would really appreciate some help from someone who can offer a 
perspective on controlling two bricks. None of us in the team have more than 
one brick so we don't really know what it takes to do that.

We've talked about a possible change to the API to make it friendly for two 
or more NXT's but so far we haven't done anything concrete. I would love it 
if you could pick up that part of the project and run with it. I guess the 
first step is to send your Sourceforge ID (and anyone else on your project 
who will contribute to your programming).

BTW Tank battle sounds neat. Kind of like some of the old 
Atari/Intellivision games.

- Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roly Vicaria" <ro...@gm...>
To: <bba...@mt...>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Hello, my name is Roly Vicaria...


> ... I am a CS student at Florida International University. This semester I
> was put in charge of a mentorship project which is designed to attract
> students to Engineering. The project I chose was to create a "game" using 
> 2
> NXT kits. The game is a simulated Tank Battle where each NXT tank will 
> seek
> out its enemy according to the algorithms it's programmed with ( there can
> be different type of tanks with different algorithms, eg. lazy, wanderer,
> destroyer, etc...we want the game to be able to extend to more than 2 
> tanks
> in the future  ).
>
> That was all the background info...bottom line is that I have been trying 
> to
> write the battle simulation code in Java using the iCommand API to tell 
> each
> tank what to do at any given point thru the Bluetooth connection based on
> the information that each tank sends back from their sensors.
>
> I know that the code is very buggy, I have become intimately familiar with
> all of it. I was reading through your mailing lists on Sourceforge about
> changes you are anticipating for v. 0.6 and I think that you have some 
> great
> ideas floating around. I particularly noted how you were making an
> intentional decision to not focus on the multiple NXT case from your 
> design
> for the time being "since you don't know many people with more than 1". I
> was wondering if you needed any more help with it since we just so happen 
> to
> have 2 that will have to work with a laptop running the simulation code
> through a single Bluetooth dongle.
>
> I have a team of 3 guys that we are building our NXT tanks and refining 
> the
> code as we've come across problems, so we can put in plenty of time into
> this.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Roly Vicaria
>